The thing with a speed limit is though it's a LIMIT. You do not have to drive to it all the time.
I see myself driving below the limit a lot if weather conditions / road surface or type of road (width, blind crests or corners etc etc) dictates it.
Going round a 20mph corner in the rain at 50mph isn't going to cause that much less damage than at 60mph. If the driver took the corner properly there wouldn't be a problem.......
+1.....
And I hate the way they want to try and control the minority of people who drive recklessly, by punishing the majority who drive with a bit more common sense!
I agree with James May in his telegraph column, where he says why do we have average speed cameras in situations such as motorway maintenance when its the middle of the night and no-one is working?!
A blanket enforcement just annoys people because its a stupid rule, and its almost impossible to argue against anything that could even remotely be connected to 'safety'....