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Ministers reject all-day 60mph limit plan for smart motorways

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Andrew Forster
11 July 2014
Smart motorways: blanket 60mph limit rejected
Smart motorways: blanket 60mph limit rejected

 

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has rejected the Highways Agency’s plan to operate a 60mph speed limit all day on smart motorway sections of the M1 and M3. 

Concern about the air quality impacts of the smart motorways prompted the HA to proposed the lower limit between 7am and 7pm seven days a week on the M1 between junctions 28 in Derbyshire and 35a in South Yorkshire, and the M3 between junctions 2 and 4a in Surrey. 

These sections of motorway (with the exception of the...

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