Whats wrong with a 50km/h speed limit for trucks? They carry heavy loads and if at all they want to raise the limit, maybe 60 km/h but not more than that. Do you know, the major cause of accidents with trucks is because they lose control of the vehicle when travelling at high speeds and brake suddenly.

PS: I am talking strictly with respect to the Indian scenario of roads, road manners and pedestrians.

FYI - the above truck puts 500 Hp motor & can match a CBR 250R even with 10 tonnes of load. Kindly check the picture again.

Major cause is two-wheelers; there's a thread on this in the news section in xBhp

Same here

This is my last say on this; I'm not getting argumentative if 50 Kmph is justified or not. This thread was meant to provide a news that BTP has initiated a service through which public can upload pictures to control the number of offences. Hope it brings a significant change in our corrupt system & reduce the number of traffic offence, accidents & death.

Well, the rest of it seems correct. But I distinctly remember that that the speed limit for motorcycles was 80 and not 50. You can get yourself killed if you ride at 50 on the expressway since the leftmost lane is the one for heavy vehicles and the speed limit on that one is 65. So in case you don't want to get run down, you will have to ride on the breakdown-lane/ the grass .

I don't know if it has changed now but as of August 16 2012, it used to be 80kmph. Maybe Delhi / Agra / Mathura members can confirm. Even the road leading to the E-Way from Greater-Noida side had a speed limit for Motorcycles alternating between 70 and 80 in patches. Car speed limit was fixed at 90 before the E-Way starts, after it starts, speed limit increases to 100.

I am sorry that I didn't click pics of the speed limit boards itself since I didn't stop anywhere close to one but I guess I did post this in the HVK group around 20th of August.

Since when? From 1988 MV act or even before, the speed limit for motorcycles are 50 Kmph; all I'm aware is motorcyclists can be fined in this country for violating the speed limit of 50 Kmph through the country. Having sign board of 80 is only for 4 wheelers & does not apply for trucks


Pls...can you take some pictures & post here?

AFAIK, the speed limit for two wheelers on Bangalore airport road is 60km/h.
BTW, the person capturing the photo has to be careful. What if the person whose pic is being taken is a rowdy ranga and he sees you?

Please confirm this on the Delhi G2G Thread if you want. I cannot take pictures.. I am over 1500km away from that place .

I am talking with such confidence because I was there.

Ahmedabad Traffic Police tried this but now look at their site and FB page they got fedup with complaints flooding in only against traffic cops and other men in uniform. They no longer monitor or register such complaints.

I learned that except some parts of Delhi where it's 70 Kmph, all other states have this 50 Kmph speed limit for motorcycles.

Source - Speed limits in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I hope this solves the confusion on speed limits & hence can we get back to the original topic please?

PS - Before calling Wiki crap & knocking it off, go through each & every link there