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Is it legal - or enforceable - to have different limits applying in different directions on the same piece of dual carriageway?

I was in the south east over the weekend, and I happened to drive up and back down a short stretch of the A10. I used to live near there, and drove along this stretch of road at least twice a day, so I was surprised to see the new speed limit signs.

I can't embed this as a pciture, but here is a link:
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi? ... amp;icon=x

At the junction with Lieutenant Ellis Way / Winston Churchill way, heading north, there are terminal signs. Heading south, however, the speed limit is 40 north of the top of the linked map, and right at the top where you can just about see Farm Close, there are a pair of terminal signs.

That makes it the best part of half a mile where the speed limit is higher heading south than it is heading north.

Before anyone comments, there were no cameras on that stretch, nor did my gps beep to say it was a mobile location, but then my database hasn't been updated for a few months so I suppose it's not out of the question!!

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I can think of one or two, but it's usually only a staggering of the limit change on different sides.

Example 50-NSL, A31 Tricketts Cross, Ferndown, Dorset

See here - quite a few of them about.

One of the longest is on the M60 at Bredbury, where it's 70 anticlockwise, but about a mile of SPECS-enforced 50 clockwise

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Yes, being local I use that bit of the A10 all the time. The NSL/40 used to start/stop in the same place both sides, where it still is southbound at Farm Close. There's a new light industrial development half way along on the northbound side (where the map shows Albury Farm) and I suspect they're anticipating increased turning-in-and-out traffic. I think what they have done is make the temporary 40 limit, there while they were building, permanent on the northbound side to 'protect' it, so this one section is now 40 going north and still NSL going south. Strangely, the southbound side has always been the more dangerous because traffic comes haring down the NSL as cars are trying to turn left out of Theobalds Lane onto the A10, there are no junctions with minor roads on the northbound side at all.

I await the extension of the southbound 40 down to the roundabout to match, and the scameras to enforce it!

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