Speed limit brings climate protection - and billions for the economy:
There are many indications that a speed limit would be good for the climate balance ...
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Key FactsA speed limit could provide significant benefits
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- Berlin According to one analysis, a 130 km/h speed restriction in Germany would have a significant economic benefit in addition to the climate preservation effect.
- The study's findings, according to Udo Becker of the Institute for Transport Planning and Road Traffic at the Technical University of Dresden, demonstrate that a speed limit would be tremendously advantageous to the national economy.
- A speed limit would save drivers 766 million euros in gasoline each year.
- He went on to say that the study had taken into account all of the major impacts.
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- According to a new Federal Environment Agency study, speed limits on highways could prevent significantly more harmful climate gases than previously thought.
- What else needs to happen for a general speed limit to be implemented on German highways?
- A speed limit of 120 km/h on highways could save not only 2.6 million tons of climate-damaging gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and others each year, but 6.7 million tons.
- All polls show that a speed limit is beneficial.
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