Skip to main content

Language: English / GĂ idhlig

Loading…

Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-12336

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: 18 November 2022
  • Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 December 2022

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider making a regulation in exercise of the power conferred by sections 17(2), (3) and (3ZA) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to test a 30 mph speed limit on the length of the M8 between Junction 22 and Junction 15, which is the area originally designated as the Glasgow Inner Ring Road, in order to assess its impact on traffic congestion and the reportedly dangerous levels of vehicle noise and emissions pollution in the inner urban area of Glasgow caused by both the current 50 mph limit and scale of the motorway infrastructure.


Answer

The Scottish Government currently has no plans to reduce the speed limit on the M8 through Glasgow for the purposes of assessing the relationship between speed limit and congestion, noise and air pollution.