At 18:30 26-1-02 -0500, John Giorgis wrote: >Personally, I believe that speed limits should be raised to 85 on most >straight limited-access highways - and then there would be a far greater >respect for the law.
How are higher speed limits going to create "a far greater respect for the law"? Since the first motor vehicles appeared on our roads, speed limits have gone up. However, no matter what the speed limit is on any given stretch of road, there will always be a lot of people exceeding it by 10-20 km/h. Raising the speed limit does not help fight speeding -- those people will still exceed it by 10-20 km/h. (I guess they believe the government always builds in some safety margin, so if they allow 50 km/h on a stretch of road, you can still safely drive 60-70 km/h there.) Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
