RURAL ROADS LORRY SPEED LIMIT RISES
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The 政府 is raising the 速度(を上げる） 限界 for lorries on 田舎の roads from 40mph to 50mph.
輸送（する） 大臣 Claire Perry said the 増加する would save the haulage 産業 £11 million a year, with hauliers and モーターing organisations welcoming the 告示.
But the British Cycling organisation said it was "staggering" that 限界s were 存在 増加するd when many トラックで運ぶs were "簡単に not fit for 目的".
とじ込み／提出する photo 時代遅れの 21/4/2009 of a 50mph 速度(を上げる） 限界 調印する. The AA has welcomed a 政府 決定／判定勝ち（する） to raise the 速度(を上げる） 限界 for lorries on 田舎の roads from 40mph to 50mph. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. 問題／発行する date: Thursday July 24, 2014. The 政府 is also 協議するing on 増加するing the 速度(を上げる） 限界 for lorries on 二重の carriageways from 50mph to 60mph. See PA story TRANSPORT Lorries. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
The change in 速度(を上げる） 限界s for lorries on 選び出す／独身 carriageways will come into 軍隊 in 早期に 2015 and will bring England and むちの跡s in line with other European road safety leaders, such as Denmark and Norway.
The 政府 has also 開始する，打ち上げるd a six-week 協議 on 計画（する）s to 増加する the 速度(を上げる） 限界s for lorries on 二重の carriage ways from 50mph to 60mph.
Mrs Perry said: "We are doing all we can to get Britain moving and 上げる growth. This change will do 正確に／まさに that and save our haulage 産業 £11 million a year.
"Britain has one of the world's best road safety 記録，記録的な／記録するs and yet 速度(を上げる） 限界s for lorries have been stuck in the 1960s.
"This change will 除去する a 20mph difference between lorry and car 速度(を上げる） 限界s, cutting dangerous 追いつくing and bringing permitted lorry 速度(を上げる）s into line with other large 乗り物s like coaches and caravans.
"現在の 速度(を上げる） 限界s for HGVs (激しい goods 乗り物s) were introduced around 50 years ago and need to be updated given 改善するd 乗り物 科学（工学）技術."
British Cycling's （選挙などの）運動をするs 経営者／支配人 ツバメ 重要な said: "It's staggering that the 政府 has 増加するd the 速度(を上げる） 限界 for these 乗り物s when many of them are 簡単に not fit for 目的.
"HGVs are 伴う／関わるd in a fifth of cyclist fatalities and many of the 乗り物s have large blind 位置／汚点／見つけ出すs which 妨げる drivers seeing people 近づく the cab. "
He went on: "The 政府 has failed to の近くに the （法などの）抜け穴s 許すing 確かな HGVs to forgo fitting 付加 mirrors and safety 器具／備品. This move is in direct 衝突 with the 政府's 目的（とする） of creating a cycling 革命 in Britain."
AA 大統領，／社長 Edmund King said: "This seems like a ありふれた sense move. Every driver has probably experienced 存在 stuck behind a lorry travelling at their 合法的な 40mph 限界 on a 選び出す／独身 carriageway main road with a 国家の default 速度(を上げる） 限界 of 60mph for cars."
He went on: "This 20mph 速度(を上げる） differential can lead to bunching and dangerous 追いつくing manoeuvres. So we welcome the 計画（する）s to 許す トラックで運ぶs to 合法的に travel at 50mph on these roads to end this 失望させるing, dangerous, historic anomaly."
RAC 創立／基礎 director Professor Stephen Glaister said: "For drivers there is nothing more dangerous than 選び出す／独身 carriageway 田舎の roads, with two-thirds of car occupants dying on these types of 大勝する.
"The hope is that the raising of the 限界 will bring 乗り物 速度(を上げる）s closer together and 減ずる the 誘惑 for people to 追いつく where they should not.
"We would 推定する／予想する the Department for 輸送（する） to closely 監視する the change to make sure this is the 事例／患者."
Geoff Dunning, from the Road Haulage 協会, said: "This 証拠-based 決定／判定勝ち（する） by 大臣s to 増加する the 限界 to 50mph will be 堅固に welcomed by hauliers and their drivers.
"The 現在の 限界 is long out of date and the 失望／欲求不満 it 生成するs 原因（となる）s unnecessary road safety 危険s."
