National speed limits on single-lane rural roads of european countries in km/h

Posted by Tirolischleioans

45 Comments

  1. Sorry but this is not good. It would have made a good heat map or better still a map where each max speed was represented by increasing intensities of the same colour range. But choosing wildly different colours to represent what is essentially a sliding scale is the wrong approach. How is bright pink 40kph less than bright green but 20kph less than red?

  2. IfuckAround_UfindOut on

    No wonder everyone left Ireland. It wasn’t non existing food. It was having to drive walking speed on roads outside town

  3. Antique-Brief1260 on

    The Flemish-Walloon border has never looked so straight. Looks like they’ve been gekoloniseerd/colonisées by another European power

  4. Austria has three speed limits: urban, rural and highway. That’s it. 

    In Poland we have 4 categories of road splitted by number of lanes and vehicle. It’s insane to remember full table of speed limits!

  5. Why is the entirety of Russia yellow but only East Thrace for Turkey.

    Also what about Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan and parts of Kazahstan?

  6. These Europe maps always make me think what actually counts as europe

    Like ok they didnt include all of turkey so it must be countries that are geographically in europe.

    But then Cyprus is also in the map. Then i think ok maybe its EU member countries and Cyprus is a memeber i did not know, but then, Georgia isnt here also

  7. Jolly-Statistician37 on

    France is a patchwork, actually.
    Most roads in central-southern and central-eastern France went back to 90 kph, but national roads in these areas are still at 80, and more urbanized coastal, northern and southeastern areas mostly kept 80 kph.

    It’s a mess.

  8. Netherlands it’s 100. Most single lane N-roads are 80, but there are quite a few N-roads with the 100-limit (N50,N34)

  9. Suitable_Poem_6124 on

    So if you don’t pay attention to which region you’re in in Belgium you could end up with a fine. Do they have a sign warning you at the border at least ?

  10. 60 is fine on minor roads here in Ireland, slow the fuck down – where are you going in such a hurry?

  11. UK is wrong on this map.

    The Highway Code rule 144 (You must not drive dangerously) and rule 146 (You must adapt your driving to the road) mean that if you were to travel at 59.99mph (96.56 kph) on a single lane rural road and were involved in an accident you would be liable under the Road Traffic Act for dangerous driving. RTA 1988 sections 2 & 3 and RTA 1991.

    Source – https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/general-rules-techniques-and-advice-for-all-drivers-and-riders-103-to-158

  12. Sweden isn’t only 70km/h. The speed limit can be 70, 80, 90, or 100. In the northern part 90 and 100 are the most common speeds. Boden to Jokkmokk is 100 for the most part.

  13. In France this 80km/h thing has found it’s own limits, for example departments like Moselle derogate almost all the roads up to 90km/h

  14. cantinaband-kac on

    *only colors the part of Turkey west of the Bosporus, but includes ALL of russia* 🤔 that’s one poorly made map…

  15. NL here: rural roads are almost always 60, 80 is more of an exception, and the locals (at least near me) will mostly drive 100. We have provincial roads (100) pretty much anywhere when there is no highway though, so usually you just drive the rural road for 10 min max.

  16. UK is so stupid in that regard. They have the second highest singe-lane speed limit, but the lowest on Highways.

    Why?

  17. France is actually 80-90, depending on the places.

    It was 90 until 2018, some shitass politician decided to set to 80 without experiencing, spent tons of money to replace the panel signs. It lead to yellow jacket mass protestings (not the only factor, but definitely one of them).

    Then, years later, it went back to 90, but not everywhere, and this is a total mess.

    You should set a red/yellow striped panel to France.