Looks like my running thread is going to go downhill!

Increase in spede limit will increase obesity

Money well spent on that research then - a journey is not shorter if you travel faster FFS!!

The only thing that could be considered to be shorter is the overall duration of a journey, which if you think about it can only be BETTER for obesity as you wont be sat on your fat arse so long.

Pointless even 'researching' this anyway - everyone already drives at 80mph + now.

Idiots.

Quite how Tropical Medicine is somehow relevant to motorway speed limits I really dont know.

I think they are expert in the epidemiology (causality and spread) of diseases.

I still dont see the connection I'm afraid.

Indeed they are. There is a speed limit, and some of us observe it.

I can make about 65 mph (gps) with a good wind

Ah but in a 16NA, speed is irrelevant.

The sheer class and style speaks for itself, moving or stationary.

Original and best.

Look at you, getting all high and mighty.

I've been driving more than 20 years and I've observed* at least 5 speed limits, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.

* And I've observed thousand of speed limit signs, often while going past thinking, "50? They must be joking, I'm doing 120 easy"

... so the faster you drive, the quicker you can spread disease . I suppose this could be true if you were Wayne Rooney giving a talk at the WI......