New Hwy Speed Limits
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Re: New Hwy Speed Limits
Hallelujah! About time.
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Is 10km/hr really worth celebrating over?
I can see the tolerance that police are currently giving people shrinking. So while you celebrate the new speed limit, make sure you stay a little tighter to it.
I will be interested to see what other highways are being adjusted.
I can see the tolerance that police are currently giving people shrinking. So while you celebrate the new speed limit, make sure you stay a little tighter to it.
I will be interested to see what other highways are being adjusted.
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Re: New Hwy Speed Limits
KL3-Something wrote:Is 10km/hr really worth celebrating over?
Its not so much the extra speed, its the simple fact that something that has been very long overdue is finally bringing BC just a teensy weensy closer to the 21st Century. And yes, an extra 10km/h here and there can help save time, at least for those who don't get paid by the hour to drive.
KL3-Something wrote:I can see the tolerance that police are currently giving people shrinking. So while you celebrate the new speed limit, make sure you stay a little tighter to it.
And the reason for such action would be what?
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the results this winter should be interesting .
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more suv's and ford pickups in the ditchs
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the truth wrote:more suv's and ford pickups in the ditchs
Doubtful. People driving at unsafe speeds for road conditions has zero to do with speed limits. Same as people driving safe speeds for road conditions has zero to do with speed limits.
There will be the same number of suv's and ford pickups in the ditch no matter the speed limit.
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tgm929 wrote:
Doubtful. People driving at unsafe speeds for road conditions has zero to do with speed limits. Same as people driving safe speeds for road conditions has zero to do with speed limits.d
There will be the same number of suv's and ford pickups in the ditch no matter the speed limit.
Exactly, people driving at unsafe speeds no matter what the conditions will do so regardless of the posted limit
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KL3-Something wrote:Is 10km/hr really worth celebrating over?
I can see the tolerance that police are currently giving people shrinking. So while you celebrate the new speed limit, make sure you stay a little tighter to it.
I will be interested to see what other highways are being adjusted.
only thing i see happening is more deaths
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lakevixen wrote: only thing i see happening is more deaths
By bringing up speed limits to the speed the roads were designed for?
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I simply view it as long overdue particularly when road of similar design has been at that limit for eons in other areas.
I doubt it will have any impact on winter driving crashes because the ones doing that are ignoring the weather conditions and speed limit signs anyway.
I don't use the Coquihalla often anymore but whenever I do it doesn't take long to note that a significant portion of the vehicles are doing in the neighbourhood of 150kph. I just hope that those don't now feel it's license to go 160kph. LOL
For highway driving I feel that 120kph is a sweet spot that's easy to maintain and the vehicle just seems to find it, so speaking strictly for myself the change doesn't mean that I'm going to now go 10kph faster, it simply means I'm going to be more law abiding.
I doubt it will have any impact on winter driving crashes because the ones doing that are ignoring the weather conditions and speed limit signs anyway.
I don't use the Coquihalla often anymore but whenever I do it doesn't take long to note that a significant portion of the vehicles are doing in the neighbourhood of 150kph. I just hope that those don't now feel it's license to go 160kph. LOL
For highway driving I feel that 120kph is a sweet spot that's easy to maintain and the vehicle just seems to find it, so speaking strictly for myself the change doesn't mean that I'm going to now go 10kph faster, it simply means I'm going to be more law abiding.
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lakevixen wrote: only thing i see happening is more deaths
Given how many regularly run in the 150kph vicinity I fail to see why that would be.
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Re: New Hwy Speed Limits
Makes me want to open a morgue.
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I don't think it's wise.
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rookie314 wrote:Makes me want to open a morgue.
jimmy4321 wrote:I don't think it's wise.
Some of you must believe that the roads outside of BC are complete carnage
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