Thread: Let's change the way we look at speed.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

I like Canadians. A very sensible bunch of people. Know When to Slow for Weather With Variable Speed Signs | TranBC

Poms do it with enforcement as well UK Speedtrap Guide. Radar, GPS and Laser radar detector guide.

I know a few places have them in OZ as well. Smart Speed limits make sense for slower and faster IMO

I don't know what's so smart about them. Amongst other places, they're on the Ipswich Motorway. Debris had fallen onto the Motorway resulting in the speed being reduced to 40 from 100. Eight hours after the debris was removed the limit was still 40.

That's very smart. Imagine how much revenue they raked in with that one.

Just come back from 7 days in Albany.
It seems a bunch of the lucky Perth Traffic Enforcement Squad got to spend Easter on the South Coast.
They had a full size booze bus,multinova,Perth Traffic Enforcement patrol cars(candy cars and plain wrappers),covert videos in known hoon areas,evil kenivels(motor bike police) and sneaky evil kenievels(un-marked motor bike police).
They were talking on the wireless,multinova wasnt catching many,the booze bus wasnt catching many,the un marked cars got some bussiness.They say the unmarked bikes were the hit,they were doing laps of the city center busting people for using phones.Double demerits for easter,so its enough to loose ones licence over.

Andrew

I am intrigued why the powers at be think that people who speed are such a menace and yet in the past few years they lowered the demerit points you lose for speeding and raised the fines. Surely if speeding is so bad you would raise the demerit points lost and get these dangerous people off the road. Seems a bit silly to me. What happens to all this money? The states couldn't balance the books without it. I would like the $1000s of dollars I have handed over at least pay for one simulator at one school and maybe teach a few kids to drive properly.

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, He runs 30 or so tow trucks, & several wrecking yards. He picks up a lot of hoon vehicles & stores them,...for a fee?
He said that many don't bother to pick up the cars, 'cause they're heaps of rubbish, so they go to the crusher,... at further cost,..all up costs well over $2K, more than likely not paid by driver, so,...guess who pays?....comes out of the public purse,...and who provides the dollars for that?
Got told exactly the same thing by the tow truck operator that picked up Gracie the other day,...a nice little earner in his opinion!
Pickles.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I don't know what's so smart about them. Amongst other places, they're on the Ipswich Motorway. Debris had fallen onto the Motorway resulting in the speed being reduced to 40 from 100. Eight hours after the debris was removed the limit was still 40.

Like the roadworks 40 kph speed limits on stretches where there are a dozen barricades on a bit of broken armco railing, no roadworks going on over a weekend or night but the roadworks speed limit still applies and lo and behold who is sitting behind a barrier just past this, Mr Highway Patrol officer with RSI from writing tickets.

Fair is fair, we all know that you need to slow down when they are working on these minor problems, but when they go home at night or over the weekend sure leave the roadworks sign up but open the road to the prevailing speed limit.

Originally Posted by Chenz

Like the roadworks 40 kph speed limits on stretches where there are a dozen barricades on a bit of broken armco railing, no roadworks going on over a weekend or night but the roadworks speed limit still applies and lo and behold who is sitting behind a barrier just past this, Mr Highway Patrol officer with RSI from writing tickets.

Fair is fair, we all know that you need to slow down when they are working on these minor problems, but when they go home at night or over the weekend sure leave the roadworks sign up but open the road to the prevailing speed limit.

If that was done more people would comply when workers are actually on site, "the boy who cried wolf"?
It's amazing how many signs are simply abandoned on completion of road works. There were signs still up twelve months after the works were finished, near Miriam Vale, a couple of years ago.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

If that was done more people would comply when workers are actually on site, "the boy who cried wolf"?
It's amazing how many signs are simply abandoned on completion of road works. There were signs still up twelve months after the works were finished, near Miriam Vale, a couple of years ago.

12 months after Id would if safe to do so pull over and kick said signs over problem solved