What should the open road speed limit be?

**slofox** · 18th June 2010, 16:59

Originally Posted by sinned

What a difference to here in god's own where the traffic flow is constantly clogged up with slow, inconsiderate and incompetent drivers.

You forgot "who have an aggressive attitude to other road users..."

**p.dath** · 18th June 2010, 17:09

The think I don't like about limits is it implies that the road is safe to use at that speed, when that may not be the case. Look at Western Australia - road accidents went up 30% on the rural highways when they went from no speed limit to an imposed speed limit.

I also look at places like Great Barrier Island. Although they mostly (seems to me) to have a 100km/h speed limit, they have a lot of "advisory" signs, because their roads are not capable of being driven at pace. If they can manage with advisory signs, can't the mainland do the same?

**scumdog** · 18th June 2010, 17:16

Originally Posted by p.dath

T If they can manage with advisory signs, can't the mainland do the same?

Nah, they would be ignored as they do all other signs...familiarity breeds contempt and all that..

**slofox** · 18th June 2010, 17:27

Originally Posted by scumdog

Nah, they would be ignored as they do all other signs...familiarity breeds contempt and all that..

I never ignore them - I always try to see how much I can add on and still get round without binning...

**FROSTY:Me** · 18th June 2010, 17:44

I reckon the answer is HUGE sighns that light up when theres not accidents or similar USE COMMON SENSE Then scrap the speed limit.
It isn't speed that kills its uneducated speed in cars that are poorly maintained

**Blackshear** · 18th June 2010, 17:53

What's the point in raising the limit if half our damn country can't even execute a proper intersection merge?

I think we need to follow less Britain and Australia, and more Germany.
Really sick of all these dumbass laws we're borrowing off nanny-countries.

**JR1** · 18th June 2010, 17:57

we are all biased bikers. If it was up to me fzr250s could go as fast as they wanted wherever they wanted..

**swbarnett** · 18th June 2010, 18:15

Originally Posted by scumdog

(And yeah, better training would help but too many are too incompetent to do any better, it would be safer if we could take them off the road - yaay, 48% less traffic!)

This is exactly what you get with an efficient, frequent, cheap (relatively) and convenient public transport system that spans the whole country. This is what you have in switzerland. You can get to every town, no matter how small, at least once a day by either train, bus or boat. The practical upshot is that those who don't want to drive, for whatever reason, don't have to. The roads are left to those that actually have a clue and want to drive.

I don't see this happen here, however. Switzerland is the size of the central North Island with a population of around 7.5million people. Economys of scale make their transport system possible.