The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) has responded to a consultation on a blanket 50mph speed limit on Scottish rural roads, opposing the move. The change from a 60mph national speed limit to 50mph on single-carriageway roads is being proposed in a Scottish National Speed Management Review Consultation.
But MAG says there are better ways to manage speed. The group’s campaign director, Colin Brown, said: “I find it disappointing that the consultation frames this as a choice between doing nothing or a blanket speed limit reduction. There are other options, and keeping the 60mph NSL does not imply there is nothing else to do. We do not deny the need to tackle poor behaviours. But with an inappropriate reduction of a national rural speed limit, most compliant road users will feel victimised for safe behaviour while the worst offenders will continue to offend.”