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Originally Posted by BlueG2
I can't belive there is even a debate on this.. Why people justify speeding by saying stupid shit like "the limit should be raised", "i have total contro". How hard is it to follow the speed limit? Maybe you should look at the cause of you being "late" and needing to be somewhere and are going to be late, rather than blaming the speed limit. If you speed, you get a ticket, deal with it, you broke the law. It isn't like you are being tricked to speed.
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Funny thing... I was in Edmonton all last week, and was amazed how many people stuck to the speed limits. Granted, a lot of them seemed more reasonable - most of the two-lane back highways are 100km/h - but even when it dipped to 70 or 50 going into the towns, everyone slowed down... the construction zones (and there were many), everyone was doing 50 (compare this to Hwy. 1 out here, where the construction zone limit is 80 and regular flow of traffic is still a steady 110 through the day).
Even on the open freeways (#2 heading south of town), where the limit was 110, almost everyone was doing 110 or a hair over... very very rarely did I see anyone go blazing past at 130 or more. And these are long, flat, straight, two-and-three-lane stretches where, if the Malahat should be "safe" at 120, these roads should reasonably allow 160 maximums.
Oddly, it seems few Albertans find these limits "too low" or has a problem following them.