compulsory or advisory

re: the speed limit signs on the centre of motorways (the ones with the
flashing amber lights above and below)

Are they compulsory or advisory? I ask 'cos they are bloody useless
and I usually ignore them. Well, I slow down a bit and try to work out
why they have been switched on, but that's about it.

What does everybody else do?

 

AFAIK the only place temporary speed limits are actually enforceable for
speeding offences (ignoring due care and attention or anything else you
might get done for) is motorways.

That said they usually are completely fucking wrong so I slow down when I
see the first one and, if nowt is obvious within a reasonable distance then
I slowly get back up to speed. Which would appear to be what quite a few
other folks do too from what I have observed.

If you don't slow at the first one you are, IMO, really asking to smack into
the back of a slow moving queue just round the next bend....

Dave

 

These flashing amber speed signs above the motorway lanes are advisory;
they mean nothing at all.

 

Speed limits are only compulsory if the signs have a red circle around
them.

 

Stolen from elsewhere, thus proving us both right in a win/win situation!:

"If a temporary speed sign has a red circle around it, then it is mandatory
and speed cameras could be used to enforce the temporary speed limit, e.g.
50mph instead of 70mph on a motorway.

Some temporary speed signs are advisory not mandatory. These are often
displayed on illuminated signs with flashing lights but are not surrounded
by a red circle.

Where these kind of temporary signs are used then safety camera enforcement
should be to the usual legal limit.

However, if you chose to ignore the advisory limit then you could risk
prosecution for driving without due care or attention, or not showing
reasonable consideration to other road users"

The only temporary elcetronic speed limit signs I've seen with a red circle
are on the M25. Are there any other stretches of UK motorway where the
signs can display the red circle?

Dave

 

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Ignore them completely and utterly.

 

M42, by Solihull.
Don't know how legal the different limits for different lanes are.
One night it was 20 in the left lane by each junction and 40 in the next
lane, then both 40 between junctions. Definitely an abuse of power.

 

The new signboards that have gone up on the M4 in the last year have this
capability if required.

The "accident" symbol is fucking good. A car on its roof at about a 30
degree angle, inside a red triangle... direct and to the point!

 

M42 between the M6 and the M40 junctions. Full on variable speed
limit like the M25.

 

I wonder who operates the big notice-board things on the motorways. On
the way home a couple of weeks back they had two lane closed signs and
"Lane closed to protect workforce" or somesuch on the signs. For around
20 miles. Turns out there are two *massive* brightly lit trucks rolling
down lanes 2 and 3 at walking pace, with two guys walking down the road
infront of them. No idea what they were doing or why but..seriously, if
you can't spot two huge lorries with the worlds largest flashing
undertake arrows on them then a small sign for the previous 20 miles
isn't going to cut it.

Personally, I want to be able to change the display via my mobile or
similar...

"Red BMW: Move over, you lane hogging twat"