Thread: NT to get unlimited speeds again

Open speed limits in certain areas of the NT(and the rest of Aus) are a good idea, as the stats(yes those evil things) showed deaths increased after limits where introduced. Now as a majority of those deaths where in urban areas with a majority of those urban deaths either / or a combo of alcohol, drugs and unregistered cars, it raises questions to where the cops where or where their focus was?
As to 40kph in school zones forget changing it, but you need better organisation in and around the schools for drop-offs and pickups, as another poster said, dedicated areas or roads to do it safely.
Perfect example is Bulli public primary, used to be a drop zone on the east side of the highway with traffic lights, parents heading south would drop kids off they would cross when the lights changed, till a pensioner ignored the red light and killed a kid. Suddenly the old coal train bridge 50m away was changed to a pedestrian crossing and a fence built along the entire middle of the road for 200m. There is still a 40zone.
But another example of stupid 40k zoning is Berkley high. The back field is up against the main road, but there is no need for any student to cross it as the other side is the park foreshore of the lake, no homes to go to 200m either side of the 40kph zone, only a fish shop.
What needs to be remembered is a lot of the inner city/town centre schools where first built before or at the same time as cars started to become common, but getting the govt to spend 100's of millions buying up the required land to provide safe drop off zones will never happen.
And even with 5 kids 1-13 I still need to double check sometimes if a school zone is still active Drop oldest at high school bus stop , put next 2 on bus then have a coffee, hop in the car with wife and 2 youngest to go out and not sure if its 925 or 935 till I see the signs and check watch.