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Originally Posted by Everymans

but if they raised it people would think 80km on a rainy day is safe since the max is 100km. I was going 90 in a straight stretch when I hydroplaned when i was braking for a corner and slid into the guardrail. I've been that asshole doing 80km along the undivided section during terrible weather and people were riding my ass hardcore. Why would it work better if the speed limit were raised if this is the result? I don't know the current accident/death toll caused by speed on this road, but I can imagine it's high enough to meritt the speed limit.

LOL WUT!? Is that how you judge safe speed in adverse weather conditions?

"Well the maximum was 100km/h so I thought 80 was appropriate, even though there was torrential downpour and I couldn't see anything out my window."



What part of this are you not understanding? Ignore the rain and the adverse conditions and all that bullshit.

On a nice summer day, what do you believe to be an appropriate speed limit for the S2S?

Spoiler!

If you say 80km/h because the next day it might rain, I am going to punch a baby.

The Coquihalla is a highway that has a shockingly higher accident and mortality rate then the S2S, in fact it is so terrifying that there was a fucking TV show about it ("Highway to Hell" anyone?). Yet the speed limit remains as 110km/h. Why do you think that is?

Because reducing the speed limit will do absolutely nothing to stoo the overconfident idiots who get themselves into trouble.

If all of the above, and all the other posters who agreed the limit needs to be raised, does not convince you. Here you go:

http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/publications...iew_Report.pdf

This was the study done by one of the worlds most foremost traffic authorities, a professional engineer, as well as another professional engineer and an engineer in training. Although the S2S is not in this study as the upgrades were made to the highway after this study had been completed, you will clearly see the direction the study recommended the ministry of transportation take on the matter of speed limits.

That brings me to my final point, and coincidentally also my original point:

Were we all just crazy maniacs for going 80km/h on the S2S before the Olympic upgrades?


I have bolded the two questions I want you to answer, as you missed them the last time I answered your post.

EDIT:

Spoiler!

If people are worried about the section of the highway where these two girls past away. Then so be it, leave that section as 80km/h or even lower that to 70km/h. But to keep a lower speed limit on the rest of the highway because of one section, that is less than 1% of the total highway's length, borders on complete idiocy.