General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

Like others have said, people will drive X over whatever the speed limit is. So if the justification is that people already do 120, that's fine raise it.  But then actually enforce it as a LIMIT

Essentially just legalize the current behaviour of most people. If this got rid of the people who zip back and forth, squeezing through small gaps to maintain a speed 20km/h faster than the rest of the traffic, it should be a significant safety increase. Of course the question is how to do the enforcement…

Unfortunately I agree with others that this government probably isn’t interested in enforcement. The one thing I do like about the current “everybody is guilty” mode of operating is that somebody who goes even 10km/h faster than the rest of traffic (so 130 instead of 120) is liable to a massive speeding penalty, so whenever the police nail a dangerous driver they have the option of using 30km/h over as the basis for the ticket.