At 12:38 AM 1/27/02 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>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.
Actually, people drive at a speed that they consider:
a) safe for the current circumstances
b) carries a reasonable set of consequences if caught
If raising the speed limit has had no noticeable effect on speeders, then
the speed limit simply has not been raised sufficiently close to the true
safe speed for the road.
On the other hand, in American, on I-95 between Washington and Baltimore,
only a tiny fraction of people are even within 5 mph of the posted speed
limit of 65mph. In Colorado, on the other hand, on many Mountain Roads
speeding is quite rare, because the speed limit truly does represent the
safe speed for the road.
JDG
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