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Originally Posted by taylor192
It makes lots of sense, yet since you're admittedly unfamilar with the area let me explain:
You couldn't be more wrong.
I don't slow down cause I am lazy. I know the big hill is coming up meters after the speed limit change and it will slow my car down for me. If the speed limit change were earlier, I would slow down sooner cause I don't want to be 40 over - like most other people who are watching their speed.
Plus it makes no sense to speed northbound, you just arrive at the log jam of cars sooner. If the limit were lower then traffic would be more spread out - several cities implement speed limits that change during rush hour to control the flow of traffic. If everyone just drove what they were comfortable with these would not work - yet they do - so your argument is BS.
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Just because someone is speeding in the 80km/zone or the 60km/hr transition zone before the 50km/hr residential zone does NOT guarantee that they will be speeding through the residential zone.
I'm a "go with the flow" driver, but on the highways and freeways I always make sure I am at or close to the speed limit when approaching intersections and other busy areas.
Another example of this is southbound on the TCH heading towards the Malahat. Is it dangerous to drive at 120km/hr as traffic merges down to one lane and snakes through the S curves? You bet. Is it dangerous to do 120km/hr in the long, wide straight stretch before the merge? Probably not, yet the police really get their kicks towing cars from excessive speeders here.
Supposedly they set up there because speeding in that zone guarantees that you will be speeding through the more dangerous areas. Absolutely not true.
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Originally Posted by taylor192
Post the study.
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http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/publications...iew_Report.pdf