General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

If limits were to increase, I would hope for much stronger enforcement on slow traffic in the passing lanes, along with those who pass unnecessarily on the right.

This is what I would like to see, too. A realistic speed limit with enforcement.

And an end to the idea that it is somehow “blocking traffic” if I’m hanging out in the left lane at a speed for which theoretically I could be ticketed hundreds of dollars in speeding fines.

Current practice seems to validate that traffic moving smoothly at 120km/h is OK; but an increase in the limit to 120km/h shouldn’t mean that now everybody starts going 140km/h.

Maybe we could combine tolling with ubiquitous speed enforcement: install 407-style tolling on all 4xx highways, and have a surcharge for going faster than 120km/h between entrance and exit. We would need a more rigorous approach to unidentifiable cars, however.

I’m honestly not sure how serious I am about these ideas.