The Standing Committee on Transport and Communications is reviewing a private member's bill from the Progress Party to repeal environmental speed limits in the Road Traffic Act. The Progress Party argues that these limits are ineffective and that improved winter road maintenance and street washing can reduce airborne dust more efficiently. The Conservative Party and Centre Party instead propose making the scheme more flexible through automatic signage. The committee recommends rejecting the proposal.
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The Storting calls on the government to present a bill repealing the legal basis for environmental speed limits in the Road Traffic Act.
The Storting calls on the government to prioritize more efficient winter road maintenance, including expanded use of street washing to reduce airborne dust.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure that the environmental speed limit scheme becomes more flexible, and that automatic signage can be deployed more widely than today on days with high levels of airborne dust.
Document 8:55 S (2025–2026) – A private member's bill from MPs Bård Hoksrud, Dagfinn Henrik Olsen, Frank Edvard Sve, May Helen Hetland Ervik, Mats Henriksen, and Erlend Wiborg to eliminate the environmental speed limit scheme is rejected.