AROUND 50,000 miles of the UK's rural roads are to have their speed limits reviewed, it has been revealed.Around 25,000 miles of the country's road network have already been reduced in a bid to increase safety; councils around the country

on the approach to many of the UK's major roundabouts, using lines across the road instead of trees.The Council has planted 200 trees in four villages in an effort to reduce average speeds by two to three miles per hour and cut accidents by 20 per cent. Norfolk

to the Gorsebrook interchange. They are also being used in tests to enforce a 20mph limit on a residential London street, and in pilot schemes in Scotland and Nottingham. The system is similar to the average speed check systems already in use. According

SPEED CAMERAS are here to stay. That's the message being sent out by Shropshire Council's Road Safety Partership following the announcement the Government are to slash road safety funding.Visordown reported the news this week that speed cameras

TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TfL) has published a tender for the provision of average speed cameras the organisation wishes to trial as part of a project to "enforce average speed limits in urban areas".The notice, published in the Official Journal

SPEED CAMERA operations on Derbyshire County Council roads are set to be reviewed in a 12-week trial to see whether a significant increase in the number of speeding motorists occurs once cameras in key areas have been 'switched off'. Three cameras

A BIKER who denied a speeding charge, claiming the person seen riding his bike was a visiting motorcyclist from another country, has been jailed after Police used the internet to uncover his lies.David Cox, 46, fled from Police after being clocked

THANKS TO Visordown reader Buster Jones for pointing us in the direction of this awesome modified Speed Triple.According to reports, the bike was built in France and features snazzy extras including lightweight wheels, a race-style exhaust and seat

the county council announced it is to stop £600,000 of funding to the Road Safety Partnership - the organisation responsible for running and maintaining Oxfordshire's speed camera network.Nuneham Courtenay hit National headlines in May 2007 after 35-year

, from Cornwall, was stopped by police on the A38 near Plymouth in December 2008, after being clocked for speeding on his Kawasaki ZX-6R, Plymouth Crown Court heard.Mr Marriott denies dangerous driving, claiming the controversial LTi 20-20 Speedscope