05-05-2019, 02:18 PM
I’m curious what people think of the idea of increasing some 400-series highways to 120km/h.
I generally agree with it but have always thought that the biggest problem isn’t speed but the very large differences in speeds that people are going (between 100 and 150). I’d like 120 if it actually helps here - and in particular is combined with meaningful efforts to reduce speeders from going 130+.
But it feels like as long as we have the heavy traffic and truck traffic that we have now we’re still going to have pretty large speed differences between vehicles. If cars are all going 120+ while trucks are at 105 and hanging out in the middle lanes... that seems like it’s going to make things worse.
I generally agree with it but have always thought that the biggest problem isn’t speed but the very large differences in speeds that people are going (between 100 and 150). I’d like 120 if it actually helps here - and in particular is combined with meaningful efforts to reduce speeders from going 130+.
But it feels like as long as we have the heavy traffic and truck traffic that we have now we’re still going to have pretty large speed differences between vehicles. If cars are all going 120+ while trucks are at 105 and hanging out in the middle lanes... that seems like it’s going to make things worse.