Slow down in safe road works areas?

[oldrider]

In so many places there are temporary 80kph signs everywhere, do we really need to follow these signs? Especially when the roads are empty, fully sealed and clean and the workers are all long gone.
I'm thinking specifically of the motorway around northcote road and tristram ave.
Personally I just go 109kph like usual, what do you think?

Would you be happier with signage that looked like this? John.

[FJRider]

Would you be happier with signage that looked like this? John.

Or one of these ...

[Hitcher]

In the US of A, all traffic fines double if incurred in roadworks areas.

[BOGAR]

Yes it is a problem of having roadwork sites that when unattended still have heavy restrictions in place or sites that are well away from traffic. There are people continually going around work sites to keep on top of the issue. Every site is different and sometime the speed is kept low for reasons that can only be obvious to the engineer but it is for everyone’s safety. It is recognised that having too many sites that look safe so that people ignore the signs make valid sites become dangerous. Some of the time it was just how the rule was written and not what’s practical that they have to follow.

[varminter]

Don't got no motorways here in Vagas, the only roadworks I pass on the way to work is completely ignored by everyone (30K) I ignore it too for the same reason I ignore the 70K limit for learners, don't want to get run over. Anyway, half the locals can't read and aren't too good with numbers and colours (not red, more a light pink ocifer). I know it's a bit of a risk just assume I'll get lost in the crowd.

[Johano]

In so many places there are temporary 80kph signs everywhere, do we really need to follow these signs? Especially when the roads are empty, fully sealed and clean and the workers are all long gone.
I'm thinking specifically of the motorway around northcote road and tristram ave.
Personally I just go 109kph like usual, what do you think?

Well , my girlfriend just got a $230 and 35 demerit points for doing 78 in a temp 50 zone that is normally 80km/hr on SH16 Kemeu , were there were no road works but a 50km/hr temp and a unmarked car. Yes , she did brake the law ,,, but I think visible policing would work better than a police officer hiding in an unmarked car in a "no danger" zone.

[scracha]

The real issue is why the jobsworths can't use floodlights, nightsticks and work shifts 24/7 to get the roads fixed as quickly as possibly. If someone in the gubberment could actually did maths, they'd realise that paying the road contractors more to get the works done in this fashion would save money.

[cheshirecat]

you're not too clever are you?

one day you will meet the road works that have loose gravel on them and "hello" tarmac

Dam, I thought road works were putting loose gravel on to make it normal.

[Jantar]

Well , my girlfriend just got a $230 and 35 demerit points for doing 78 in a temp 50 zone that is normally 80km/hr on SH16 Kemeu , were there were no road works but a 50km/hr temp and a unmarked car. Yes , she did brake the law ,,, but I think visible policing would work better than a police officer hiding in an unmarked car in a "no danger" zone.

Defend it. And when she writes in ask for full disclosure including a copy of the road management plan, the date the plan was lodged with the roading authority, and a copy of the roading authority's approval of the plan. If the approved plan states that the temporary speed limit is to remain in force even when road works are not taking place then just change her plea to guilty and pay the fine.

However I would be prepared to bet that signs are supposed to be laid down when no workers are actually on site unless it is new seal. Even then the traffic management plan should say how long the signs are to remain in place for. There is even a chance that this is one of the 70% or thereabouts of traffic management plans that are either not lodged, or not approved, but used anyway.

[BoristheBiter]

We rode up to Mangwhai on Sunday and the last part down the hill where the roads works have been is now temp 70km, no road work signs.
the road isn't even finished and the seal is so slippery.
I'm glad i knew of the road works because even at 70 i would have been hard pushed to make that corner, never mind the unsealed bit.
The problem is the consistincy of the signs, or lack of.