Geraldine Herbert: If you’re opposed to new rural speed limits, here are seven reasons why you are wrong

From tomorrow, the speed limit on the road beside my home will be reduced from 80kmh to 60kmh. It’s a narrow road right beside the Grand Canal, yet, until now, it has been perfectly legal to barrel along at speeds that make "falling into the canal" less a risk and more of an inevitability.

You might think this change – part of a much-needed national overhaul of rural speed limits across the country – was a rare victory for common sense. But no. My social media feed is a raging inferno of outrage.