Should motorway speed limits be scrapped?

LIZ TRUSS has said she is ready to consider ending compulsory speed limits. This is a bad idea when so many drivers go over the limit and vehicles are capable of sustained high speeds. It all sounds dangerous to me. But something needs to be done about the notso-smart motorways, which should never have been allowed in the first place.

R. CHAMBERS, Langford, Beds.

IF LIZ Truss scraps motorway speed limits, won’t that give a green light to the idiots who already think the limits don’t apply to them and that motorways are race tracks? And as for the big heads in their high-performance cars, they already think they have right of way over everyone else.

PAUL ELLIS, Nantwich, Cheshire.

I AGREE that one of the decisions the new Prime Minister should make in her first week is to scrap smart motorways and bring back hard shoulders.

Liz Truss could also increase the starting amount of inheritance tax as the Probate Office is overloaded with trifling amounts.

B. A. SHIELD, Bury, Gtr Manchester.

YOU would need to have taken leave of your senses to scrap the motorway speed limits. It’s one way to guarantee a vast increase in the number of fatal accidents on our overcrowded motorways, to say nothing of the resultant increase in fuel consumption.

JOHN MONOOGIAN, Worthing, W. Sussex.

IT WILL demonstrate an ignorance of the dynamics of road traffic if Liz Truss follows through with her no speed limit proposal on motorways. There will be more accidents, increased pollution and a certainty drivers will not reach their destinations any sooner. In fact, a blanket speed limit of 55 mph or 60 mph is more effective, as proven during the fuel crisis several years ago. And it had the bonus that motorway pollution was reduced by 25 per cent. PAUL GARROD, Portsmouth, Hants.