Reduce Motorway Congestion

In return for reducing the national speed limit to 60 mph we could easily add an extra lane to every Motorway in the country. So why do you need to drop the speed limit? The ways its done is that as Motorways are repaired you extend the hard shoulder and it becomes an intermittent hard shoulder everywhere (intermittent hard shoulders are normal already - we just extend them) but in some locations the present hard shoulder is already narrow - so to get the extra lane and the space for the armco barrier to protect the item (e.g. a bridge) we need to make the existing lanes narrower - which is why we need to drop the national speed limit to 60 mph to allow narrower motorway lanes.

Doing the work as Motorways are repaired minimises disruption and cost.

The result would be that Motorway traffic would flow more smoothly because of the extra lanes so there would be less hold ups .... meaning less stress .... and, of course, fuel economy would be greatly improved.