A government committee is assessing all existing speed limits in view of their coming metrication. Limits will be rationalised. At present there are bad country roads with a 60 mph limit and stretches of motorway or other high quality roads with a 30 mph limit. Yesterday I read in the Irish Examiner about a Garda (police) speed trap on a high quality road with a 30 mph limit. They were writing away, having a real field day. One proposal is to increase the speed limit on the motorways from 70 mph to 120 km/h. This is the speed om most European motorways, except in Germany, where motoirists are allowed to push the gas in as far as they want, and where just an advisory speed l;oimit of 130 km/h applies. A sector that is not progressing at all is tiles and carpets. Almost everything is priced by the square yard, no metric in sight.
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