VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS OUTSIDE SCHOOLS

HL Deb 12 July 1993 vol 548 cc3-4WA

Lord McColl of Dulwich

asked Her Majesty's Government:

When the trials of the variable speed limits outside schools are to begin.

The Minister of State, Department of Transport (The Earl of Caithness)

The first experimental site at Howick on the A.5092 trunk road in Cumbria has come into operation today. This is the first of the 14 school sites on trunk roads and 100 sites on local authority roads where variable limits are being introduced on an experimental basis. The results will be monitored and, if the signs are effective in reducing drivers' speeds, provision will be made to permit variable speed limits to be more widely applied.