The New Speed Limit In view of Mr. Hore-Belisha's resolve
to bring the 30-Mile speed liinit in built-up areas into force on March 18th, it is to be hoped that the Ministry of Transport will insist on the reasonable interpretation of a regUlation perfectly reasonable in itself. The ease of the arterial and by-pass roads is urgent. They were built to relieve existing roads through towns and villages—built specifically, indeed, for the new type of traffic that has developed in the last fifteen or twenty years. But what happens ? Strings of houses are ribbon-built along them, street-lamps follow as a matter of course, and the roads fall automatically within Mr. Hore-Belisha's (or rather his predecessor's) " built-up " category. On the vast majority of these roads there is no case whatever for the 30-mile limit, much less for the 20-miles which some ponderous district council near London proposes for its own area. It has been rumoured that the Minister intends to exempt practically all arterial roads from the 30-mile regulation, and it is to be hoped that is so. Such restrictions are only justified if a sense of realities is maintained.
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