Rejected petition Raising the national speed limit on motorways from 70 mph to 80mph.

Rejected on 17 August 2023

This petition is addressed to the Government for the reassessment of the national speed limit taking into account the monitoring of traffic on highways by the National Highway traffic control and the National Travel Survey Statistics with the possibility of increasing from 70 mph to 80 mph.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for a similar action:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/640783

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.