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Originally Posted by inv4zn
Wait, I'm confused.
Are you complaining about the speed limit being too low, or too high?
I drive a well maintained car with good tires, and I actually find the speed limit mostly ok on the S2S. There are some stretches that could be higher, but I think it'd be even more confusing if there were 5 different speed limits on a 20km curvy road.
That being said, it is a tragedy all around. RIP.
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The speed limit on the S2S is low by about 20km/h.
I think the entire thing should be 100km/h, except through lions bay, Britannia beach and squamish, it should be 70km/h through those sections.
It makes no sense to have 60km/h through lions bay, when the speed limit through squamish is 70km/h. There is no traffic lights in lions bay, nor is the population even nearly as high as squamish. So if 70km/h is reasonable through squamish it should be the same through lions bay.
The rest of the highway was 80km/h before the complete overhaul of the S2S, now after all the improvements, the speed limit is the same as before. That makes zero sense. The highway was dramatically improved yet we can't go any faster? So I ask the question I have posed a thousand times before: were we all just crazy maniacs when we were driving the S2S at 80km/h before the overhaul?
There are many city roads within Vancouver and Burnaby which have the same 80km/h as the S2S. I'm talking roads like SE Marine Dr. and the likes of that, if we can do 80km/h on these roads, where a traffic light appears every 500m, or there is pedestrian crossings, then the S2S should be dramatically higher.
The thing I find funny too is the complaint people put up about an animal running into the road and people not being able to stop in time and such. The portion of the S2S which is most prevalent for animals is after Alice lake, where the speed limit is coincidentally raised to 90km/h. Its funny because the road has not changed at all in its construction, yet all of a sudden when you reach the section where weather is of a greater impact (you are almost 2000' higher by that point), and the wildlife population is extraordinarily higher (you see like 10 signs about dear and bears wandering in the road), the speed limit actually goes UP not down.
Realistically though the complaint of animals on the road way is a farce anyways, you are much more likely to hit a deer near williams lake or PG then anywhere within the areas neighboring vancouver, and that never stopped then from setting 100 to 110km/h speed limits...
But don't take my word for it here was what the we (the tax payers) were told when we were asked to approve the S2S funding:
This was one of their 3 main reasons for upgrading the S2S as told to us the tax payers as seen in this report:
http://www.partnershipsbc.ca/pdf/SeatoSkyFinal.pdf
Yet travel times were not shortened, because the speed limit for which they engineered the highway for, was never implemented.