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Originally Posted by ericthehalfbee  Except that no car in the world can go from 150-0 in 150 feet. | Semantics. It was just a random number and it doesn't affect the point I was making.
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09-20-2010, 10:12 AM
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09-20-2010, 01:15 PM
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You know what's needed to make everyone happy is just a 2 stage speed limit on highways with 3 lanes or more.
Vehicles on the far left lane MUST be above 120km/h and maximum speed limit is 150.
While the right 2 lanes are business as usual. How hard could it be?
And we should totally ban the use of left lane for vehicles over 3 tons. Simple physics.
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09-20-2010, 01:45 PM
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i'm not a fan of this law at all
but i do have to admit that for me these laws work. I very rarely use my cell phone while driving nowdays, and i've already been training myself to watch my speeds.
It's very ridiculous and unnecessary though. The fine should be much smaller and instead, they should put out a bunch of marketing and warnings and arrests out there to scare me into it, instead of using a cost incentive. $1500 is completely unreasonable.
I also wonder if this will result in any people driving so slow, that it actually becomes dangerous lol
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09-20-2010, 02:38 PM
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Listening to news 1130, 12:20 am this morning, N. Van RCMP handed out the first 3 day impoundment for a guy who was caught DUI.
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09-20-2010, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by SumAznGuy Listening to news 1130, 12:20 am this morning, N. Van RCMP handed out the first 3 day impoundment for a guy who was caught DUI. | In his defense he was probably too drunk to remember the new rules started today. Glad he's off the roads Posted via RS Mobile | |
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09-20-2010, 03:18 PM
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Now I don't speed 40 over, but the only thing that worries me is lets say for instance you're driving along the pat bay highway in Vic on the way to the ferries. And when it goes from 90kph to 50kph, you're doing a shoulder check/changing lanes and miss the sign. Then a cop pulls you over and takes your license away.
That is the ONLY thing that's BS. Anyone going 140kph on the #1 should get their license taken away anyways... no reason to go above 110-120kph. Vancouver and the surrounding area is so close in density that the extra 30kph will save you like 10 minutes here and there. Worth it? Not hardly.
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09-20-2010, 03:24 PM
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#208 | | straight from the fields of squamton
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open your mind a bit Falcon! There are still highways with 60-80km/h speed limits!
try driving to whistler with this rule in effect.
no need for anything more than a civic now, anyone want to buy a genesis?
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09-20-2010, 03:25 PM
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One word: Autobahn.
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09-20-2010, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by falcon And when it goes from 90kph to 50kph, you're doing a shoulder check/changing lanes and miss the sign. Then a cop pulls you over and takes your license away. | Not just missing the sign, many (myself included) coast down to the new limit. Consider doing 100 in an 80, coasting down you might be 95 in a 50 and bam, car impounded.
I don't think this is fair. Ontario cops used speed changes to catch speeders when 50+ law was introduced. BC cops will probably do the same, so everyone please watch your speed at speed changes, especially at some of the notorious spots for speed traps.
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09-20-2010, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by shenmecar One word: Autobahn. | We don't need an autobahn, we need realistic speed limits and better driver training.
make people take a drivers test every 5 years and bump the speed limits. I bet they'd make a killing re-testing everyone, and keeping the shitty drivers off the road.
PLEASE DO THIS!!!
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09-20-2010, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by shenmecar One word: Autobahn. | Two words: Bad drivers
But if you're trying to say a lot of the roads have retarded speed limits then I agree
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09-20-2010, 03:43 PM
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better watch my speed tonight when i drive down marine to get to the airport haha
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09-20-2010, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by 1990TSI We don't need an autobahn, we need realistic speed limits and better driver training. | Lets face it, traffic in the GVA sucks, and > 50% of people in BC live in the GVA. Improving traffic in the GVA would net the biggest impact and get you the most votes to push this through.
In the GVA there's few highways, most of us are on city streets with limits of 50 or 60 that just cannot be raised due to the amount of intersections, alleys, entrances, sidewalks, bike lanes, ... Plus during rush hour some of these turn into parking lots anyways. Yet outside of rush hour what's slows you down the most? Red lights. If I could cruise without hitting a single red light outside of rush hour that would be a better improvement than any speed limit change.
Some of the US cities I've been to have a system that outside of rush hour certain lights change to flashing yellows and reds. The main direction getting a flashing yellow (go through with caution) and the lesser traveled direction getting a flashing red (stop, proceed when clear).
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09-20-2010, 04:04 PM
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I like to coast too. I've seen quite a few who brake hard when they see the 50km/hr sign from a highway. Almost rear ended that c-lai.
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09-20-2010, 05:18 PM
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Shit, for a split second I hit 121km/h accelerating onto an 80km/h highway today...
Better take my car away!
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09-20-2010, 07:04 PM
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stupid law.
thank god im putting my car away and not driving it. hope the law would be gone once i get my ITR out again... 
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So, who's been caught so far?
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09-21-2010, 09:41 AM
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The five drivers were issued violation tickets ranging from $348 to $483, will receive three penalty points on their driver's licence and will have to play an ICBC driver-risk premium of $320 per year for three years over and above their insurance premium, said Marks.
"The cost of towing and storage is on average $350," said Marks. "As you can easily see, excessively speeding is a very expensive proposition. With a specified penalty of $368, a driver may be required to pay additional penalties totalling over $1,650. The message here is obey the speed limit."
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09-21-2010, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by hk20000
And we should totally ban the use of left lane for vehicles over 3 tons. Simple physics.
| Sections of Washington I-5 already has a variation of this. Regular traffic limit is 70 mph, trucks (probably semis) is 60. That basically forces heavier trucks to stay in the right lane. I for one would want that style, including the bumped up limits.
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09-21-2010, 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by CorneringArtist Sections of Washington I-5 already has a variation of this. Regular traffic limit is 70 mph, trucks (probably semis) is 60. That basically forces heavier trucks to stay in the right lane. I for one would want that style, including the bumped up limits. | When I dove across the US I noticed this often, one limit for semis (55-65), a higher limit for everyone else (65-75).
But holy crap the speed limits are heavily enforced. On highways that were 75, everyone was doing 75, or ~120 kmph. Traffic on most highways in Canada travel at ~10-20 kmph over the limit, so essentially we have the 70-75 mph that many are quoting, without the strict enforcement. I'd rather have less strict enforcement than the society of fear in the US, and I'd hope those who dislike power tripping cops would agree.
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09-21-2010, 10:10 AM
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"These five drivers exceeded the speed limit by 50, 53, 55, 56 and 69 km/h."
| This is actually a good sign.  They are not picking on 40,41,42,... ie those on the limit of 40 kmph over who might just had an inaccurate speedo. Doubtfully there was no-one going 40-50 over.
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09-21-2010, 10:23 AM
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Are they not... or is there just nobody going within the 40-50 range where they're set up?
Why don't you go test the theory for us
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