Safe Speed Forums

BRAKE, the organisation that campaigns to get us all out of our cars (they call it a road safety campaign, but really they're just a bunch of short-sighted Luddites who would like to see the entire economy grind to a halt so that all the people currently working will lose their jobs and become just as useless as the short-sighted Luddites themselves, thus making the Luddites feel very self-satisfied because they were useless first) issued a press release last November claiming that breaking the motorway speed limit is the reason why congestion is so bad. It's nothing to do with inadequate capacity, or people refusing to use lane 1, or the police closing arterial roads for hours on end to protect themselves every time someone's hub cap falls off. No, all you have to do is stick to the speed limit and great swathes of congestion will magically disappear.