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Originally Posted by Lomac
The issue is that there will always be people who see the speed limit as something to achieve, regardless of the prevailing weather conditions. I tend to drive my vehicles probably 85-90% of what I think is their limit during poor weather, and I'm still passed by other cars that are obviously not suited for the situation they're in. Usually, I come across these vehicles at a later point and they're almost always in a ditch or half stuck in a snow embankment.
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This is called natural selection.
It is taught to every driver in BC that the speed limits are set for OPTIMAL conditions, when the road is dry and the weather is warm. If they still cannot understand the simple concept that they should slow down in the snow and rain, that is nobodies but their own fault...
At some point you need to decide what you are willing to accept, I mean sure we could lower the speed limits to 30km/h across the entire road system and accidents would be eliminated all together, but that would come at a ridiculous cost, to the economy, our daily lives, and people's sanity.
I think we have reached a point where we have improved the safety of our roads and vehicles enough that an increase to the speed limit of some roads simply makes sense.
I will re-iterate the SOME ROADS portion, because people seem to get all bent out of shape and think that I am advocating making the speed limit 60km/h through school zones and 100km/h down Kingsway. This is simply not the case, I am advocating the government to simply follow the determinations made by the countless studies that they spent our tax dollars to fund then subsequently ignored. Studies that were done by professional engineers and traffic authorities. Instead the government has decided they know better than all these people and went a completely opposite direction, and I do not believe it has benefited the people they were elected to represent in any way...