I have got a speeding ticket through the post today for doing 69mph on the Lancs near Leigh.
I thought a dual carriageway was 70mph limit - is the Lancs different?

60 on A roads unless stated otherwise.

Iam pretty sure there are 60 signs most of the way on the Lancs

National Speed Limit signs not 60, then when you get towards Manchester (well Salford

) it reduces to 50.

There are 60 signs when heading towards liverpool but im sure they are pretty new

been 60 for a while now gone to 30 in the road works near lowton

Ah! so that's where the other end of the Lancs goes



It's not the first time I've been wrong





Isn't the National Speed Limit being reduced to 50 on A roads unless stated? If as you say they're new it's probably the Highways Agency getting ready for the change.

a maximum of 60 mph on East Lancs Road, 50mph when you get past Worsley, then 40 mph when it becomes the A6 at Irlam O Height's.

The national speed limit for a dual carriageway is 70mph. That's why you have the 60mph signs on the Lancs because it's not national speed limit - most of it is 60mph. There's a stretch near Haydock island that's still 70, and that stretch in Salford that's 50 instead.

correct Joe, hey your beginning to get famous with a TV appearance tonight

Was it u tonight the Linesman at Donny Joe?

OK hold the smugness.........









AND DON'T TELL YOUR MOTHER

Did you know that the East Lancashire Road was originally meant to be a road from Liverpool to erm, well, East Lancashire? Hence its name.

It was shelved once it got to Macnhester in favour of the M62 which took 40 years from idea to construction.

Isn't the internet wonderfully boring at times?

I don't understand the point of a standard speed limit if it constantly overridden - if the A580 at 10.30 on a sunny Wed morning is not able to cope with 70mph I wonder where is!

Anyway I spent 3 years on 9 points in 2002-04 so to only have 3 points will be a luxury

Must have been.

Had to zoom in to see if the linesman had legs.

I then had to put my shades on, as they were very white !!!





As for the East Lancs, our intelligent Joe is spot on. The lancs speed limit ranges from 40-70.

I just hope they didn't clock me going to work last night. Well into 3 figures!!

Was it dated Wed 13th May 2009 by chance?? I was on my way to Liverpool Airport that afternoon (my speed conscious mate was driving 'thank god') and there was a speed camera van in each lay-by on 'both' sides of the East Lancs road - at it's fastest stretch before you got to Lowton lights.



Great Money Making Machines they are- wish I could buy one and set up my own business!!

it only reduces there to give them a chance to nick your wheels

On the Leigh side of Lowton lights, I presume? Think they were linked to the 30mph zone because of the roadworks (that are now thankfully finished).

There has been one in the lay-by between the by-pass towards the Greyhound Island.

Bugger, hope they weren't there last night

I have only seen it during the day (only time I have really been down there), but it has been there on and off for at least 6 weeks. Its a van and a man and of course a camera and radar gun thingy pointing out the back.

Cheers for the warning, will keep an eye out for any vans whenever I'm going down the Lancs.

Wasnt your son driving at the time?

Good idea Mo..... although thinking of the cost of insuring him for my car just so I could blame him for the speeding....... maybe not!