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Road Safety Bill [HL]

The noble Baroness says that that would be sensible. I think that she has made the case for me.   She wishes to impose a blanket rule, but local authorities have to go through what she admits is bureaucracy to allow people to drive on roads that are not near a village, but miles away in the open. If I drive at 42 mph my licence will be taken away if the local authority does not go through the bureaucracy. We can have a reasonable amendment, as suggested by my noble friend. I am tempted to think that the noble Baroness is suggesting a blanket rule for rural lanes, but what is a rural lane? We could go on like that.