{"id":1205,"date":"2009-03-28T23:08:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T23:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/03\/28\/1205\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T23:08:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T23:08:46","slug":"speed-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/speed-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/celesteh\/1560830134\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2094\/1560830134_e99fc0ff40_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/celesteh\/1560830134\/\">Netherlands Speed Limits<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/celesteh\/\">celesteh<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>In all other countries I know, motorways are the fastest type of road.<\/p>\n<p>The speed limit is typically 130 km\/h, but it can be as low as 100 km\/h in some countries, but in those countries all other roads are then often limited to 80 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>I think the Dutch situation on the photo is typical for mainland Europe: 50 in built-up areas, 80 on normal roads, 100 on dual carriage-ways, and 120 on motorways.<\/p>\n<p>However, the UK is really odd (official speed limits converted to km\/h and rounded): 48 in built-up areas, 97 on normal roads and 113 on both dual carriage-ways and motorways.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s going on?  What&#8217;s the point of motorways if you can drive just as fast elsewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netherlands Speed Limits Originally uploaded by celesteh In all other countries I know, motorways are the fastest type of road. The speed limit is typically 130 km\/h, but it can be as low as 100 km\/h in some countries, but in those countries all other roads are then often limited to 80 km\/h. I think the Dutch situation on the photo is typical for mainland Europe: 50 in built-up areas, 80 on normal roads, 100 on dual carriage-ways, and 120 on motorways. However, the UK is really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}