Cabinet note on speed limit in two weeks

In a telephone interview with Newsday yesterday, Sinanan said,”We have to wait for Cabinet’s decision as to what is the speed limit.

Only then would be able to say what the speed limit would be.” With the implementation, in May, of the use of the speed gun as a means of enforcing the 80 kilometres per hour (km/h) speed limit on major highways in Trinidad, a robust public discussion about the speed limit followed with Government announcing that it was considering increasing the speed limit to 100 km/h An online petition was subsequently started by a group called Safe Drivers for Efficiency, calling for the speed limit to be increased to 120 km/h and enforced.

NGO, Arrive Alive, said in a May 4 Newsday report that while it was not opposed to a review of the speed limit, to simply revise it to “legitimise” the nation’s speed habits without a thorough examination was a recipe for disaster.