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You don't have to drive 60 mph there though. You can use your judgement. I'm more used to France's 90 km/h countryside roads (now 80 km/h for most of them) but
by seszett 1y ago
You don't have to drive 60 mph there though. You can use your judgement.
I'm more used to France's 90 km/h countryside roads (now 80 km/h for most of them) but it's the same, sometimes you can only drive 70 or 50, but sometimes 90 is perfectly fine. But you should be able to see it for yourself, and in the specific places where you can't see the danger there are generally signs and a lower speed limit.
- dazc 1y agoYou don't have to do 60mph, this is true, but there are lots of people that will try to.
- hdgvhicv 1y agoI drive 20 miles a day on single track roads. The widths vary from a few passing places which you have to reverse if you meet a horse or bike coming the other way, let alone a tractor or lorry, to places where you can just about pass a large vehicle without stopping, and easily pass a car. There’s even a handful of places you can overtake if the car in front stays to the left and nothing is coming. Safe speeds vary from 15 to over 60 depending on the visibility. If you get stuck behind an idiot it can add 10 minutes to the journey. On a clear road it takes under 15 minutes to do the 10 miles each way, but get stuck behind someone who hasn’t hit a clue, prevents you from overtaking in the places you can (one of which is about half a mile of 30mph where the idiots inevitably speed), refuses to pull in to let you past, spends forever trying to get into a passing place etc and it can take nearer 30. Get that in each direction and that’s an extra half hour a day — it’s very frustrating. There should be a separate license for driving on country roads
- robertlagrant 1y agoIt's not country road driving. What you're calling an "idiot" is probably just someone who doesn't know the roads. You'd have the same problem elsewhere.
- hdgvhicv 1y agoIf you are causing a delay you are responsible for pulling over. Most slow vehicles do - bikes, horses, tractors. Just the idiot townies who filled their sat nav rather than the diversion signs. You get people doing 15mph down a road like this https://maps.app.goo.gl/76GxECaTe9ESePGY9?g_st=ic https://maps.app.goo.gl/76GxECaTe9ESePGY9?g_st=ic They should be banned.
- closewith 1y ago> You get people doing 15mph down a road like this What speed do you think is appropriate on that road?
- JdeBP 1y agoGiven that it's the A836, it's worth constrasting this with the fact that in 2025 many of the people committing traffic offences on the coastal part of that road just to the north were locals, not "townies" unfamiliar with the area. * https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/vast-majority-of-speeders-caught-on-thurso-cameras-are-local-385782/ https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/vast-majority-of-s... And then, of course, there's the part of the A836 further south known as the Balblair Straight. * https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/death-of-pensioner-angus-ross-prompts-60mph-speed-limit-calls-for-a836-balblair-straight https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/death-of-pensioner-ang...
- closewith 1y agoYeah. I do think 15mi/h or 24km/h is appropriate speed for that road if you want it to be usable by vulnerable road users. I just wondered what hdgvhicv considered appropriate.
- Dylan16807 1y agoAny slow speed can be appropriate for those vulnerable users, if they let other people pass them where appropriate. (On roads that don't have a speed minimum.) That doesn't make it appropriate in general. 15mph is not appropriate for a paved line through nothing with gentle curves and great visibility.
- philjohn 1y agoCorrect - it's a LIMIT not a TARGET.