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Road Works: Speed Limits

Question for Department for Transport

UIN 109888, tabled on 26 October 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the safety implications of raising the 50 mph limit through road works on the motorway network to 60 mph.

Answered on

31 October 2017

Highways England undertook a risk assessment of the concept of 60mph in roadworks, and has trialed it at several sites. Each site had a specific risk assessment before the trial started.

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