It was just on tv and it really shocked me...it seems evert tiny little thing you can get fined for.... You would get stopped on our motorways for doing less than 30/40 mph on our 70mph motor ways....that for sure would cause horrific accidents....but driving through a city street there is no minimum speed limit... In so many roads in London, the speed limit has been lowered to 20mph ...that makes cars emit even more polution and it racks millions in fines for just doing one mph over the limit.. Police and local Goverment are just desperate to get to the cash cows that drive anything with wheels and not hooves
Here in NYC, speed limit for streets is 25 mph unless it's a school zone and then it's 15 mph. On the highways, speed limit within City limits is 50 and then, depending on local zoning, it's 55. I think there are areas upstate where the speed is 60-65. I have recently seen postings on one of our highways that indicates minimum speed is 40 mph. If you can't drive faster than that, you shouldn't be driving on a highway.
Most of us take speed limits as suggestions. It's very hard to drive 25 miles an hour when there's no one in front of you. Same with driving 50 when everyone else is doing 65. The Pennsylvania Turnpike just upped much of its areas to 70 mph and you can bet everyone else is going 85. I've actually caught myself doing 95 at times. There is almost never a state trooper on the pike.
PA did that on I80 & I78 a few years ago, upped to 70mph. Have not driven the PA turnpike in years when I80 is free so to speak. PS I do drive I80 once a year on my return Stateside
MPH ...Its always been 30 and can think of nowhere until a year or so ago when most city road speed limits were reset to 20... Generally all roads were 30 mph and if a dual carriage " two lanes going both ways" it could be 40 mph....it feels there are fewer and fewer roads are now 30 mph....Cameras are every hundred feet or less set to catch speeders and more cameras to catch people who park of drop people off on the pavement.... we have bus lanes where it is so called iligal to even break down or be involved in a car crash.. London is like a prison state ...
I do not know about the fines. But I know, no one goes directly to jail for going too slow.
This post was edited by my2cents at March 2, 2020 11:03 AM MST
Where did you encounter this? I driven all over the country and have never seen a minimum speed other than on interstate expressways. I'm curious though.
I've never been to the States....We were watching a Sky channel program called Speeders....one of your policemen stopped a middle age couple for going to slow in a city street.....He said that the fine for going to slow was far greater than that for speeding.. I found what he said hard to believe.....the woman driver and her husband sitting next to her were somewhat shocked...
I've been on my fair share of back roads stuck behind people on a pleasure cruise taking their sweet time. It's comforting to know that sometimes these monsters are punished.
Jaimie 