General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

Even ignoring the two drivers doing 100 over, there are three more doing 50 over the limit. On a suburban road. What's wrong with these people?

Shouldn't we also be asking what's wrong with our traffic engineers who design these roads?  I've never been on the road discussed in this article, but I frequently drive on Bingeman Centre drive, and find I very difficult to drive at the 50 limit.  In no way am I justifying 100+ km over the limit, but it feels wrong to be going that slow.  I can only assume this Cambridge road "feels" the same way.

Coke

I don’t think it should even be allowed to have a road designed like that with a 50km/h limit. Either raise the limit or re-design the road so one doesn’t feel like one is walking when driving 50km/h.

In this particular location, I think a good case can be made for 60km/h or even 70km/h; it’s a major road obviously designed to take lots of motor traffic with only a few driveways; and if my idea for linking to Guelph were adopted it would be the primary route to Guelph. In other locations, re-design to make 50km/h or even a lower speed reasonable would be a better approach; for example, Victoria St. just the other side of the tracks could benefit from this treatment, with a view to gradually building a more urban street.

But none of this in any way excuses going 100km/h or even 50km/h or even 30km/h over the limit. It’s a road, not a freeway.