Sir, – On an ongoing break in Portugal’s Algarve, I am struck by a novel but obvious traffic speed control used to ensure motorists reduce their speed when approaching villages or on open stretches of road that tempt drivers to exceed the 50km speed limit.
While Ireland flashes your speed and appeals to civic responsibility to slow down, here if you exceed the 50km limit, a traffic light ahead of you changes to red.
If you are within the speed limit, it remains green. It works. – Yours, etc,
TONY LOWES,
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Portugal.