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Roads are better, Cars are safer, Let's raise the speed limit.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:24 am
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:24 am
I've been saying for a while now that the majority of speed limits on our interstate system are artificially low. Take I-49 for example. I applaud the raise of the limit to 75 but it is still too low. There is no reason that the limit shouldn't be 85 there.
Take a minute and read this recent article from a UT Professor of Transportation Engineering. LINK
I'm fine with someone wanting to drive 65, just stay in the right lane. If I can safely travel at 75+ then I should't be penalized by law enforcement. I can't be the only one who thinks it's time re-evaluate limits right? Does the limit really affect how fast you drive?
Take a minute and read this recent article from a UT Professor of Transportation Engineering. LINK
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Laws should not make people choose between what is legal and what is safe. Instead, let's put some trust in drivers. Although we all like to complain about other drivers on the road, the fact is that almost all of us get where we are going each day without an accident. Most of us are perfectly capable of finding a safe speed to drive at even without a speed limit sign.
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Current best practices in transportation engineering — supported by extensive research by organizations such as the Federal Highway Administration, the National Cooperative Highway Research Program and the Institute of Transportation Engineers — is that speed limits should be set at the 85th percentile of traffic speed. That is, only about 1 out of 7 cars should be driving faster than the speed limit. Any more than that and the speed limit should be raised.
I'm fine with someone wanting to drive 65, just stay in the right lane. If I can safely travel at 75+ then I should't be penalized by law enforcement. I can't be the only one who thinks it's time re-evaluate limits right? Does the limit really affect how fast you drive?
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Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:28 am to NewIberiaHaircut
WHY WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!???!?!?
What I really want to know is, why would you fix Staring lane, and then lower the speed limit. Whatever hack congressman did that deserves to be tarred and feathered.
What I really want to know is, why would you fix Staring lane, and then lower the speed limit. Whatever hack congressman did that deserves to be tarred and feathered.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:28 am to NewIberiaHaircut
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Instead, let's put some trust in drivers
Hmmm. How about instead, let's make the licensing exam far more rigorous and make people people take it every so often if their driving history would indicate a need for it.
There are frickin millions of people driving on the roads now that have no business behind the wheel.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:29 am to NewIberiaHaircut
But what will our govt. do to make up for the loss of funds? The big dog needs to eat...
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:29 am to NewIberiaHaircut
no speed limits on the interstates in Montana
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:31 am to NewIberiaHaircut
Roads are typically designed for 10mph above the posted speed limit. That would mean interstates with an 85mph speed limit have to be designed for 95mph. That's a stopping sight distance of a little over 1200' which is almost a quarter mile. Do you really want the person behind you to need a quarter mile to safely stop in case you need to slam on your brakes?
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:32 am to NewIberiaHaircut
I don't want teenage girls zipping around at 85 in their Camrys, driving with their knee and fricking with the radio. I'll consider the occasional speeding ticket payment for that to not happen.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:33 am to NewIberiaHaircut
The government shouldn't regulate roads anyways.
Don't tread on me.
Don't tread on me.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:34 am to NewIberiaHaircut
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Roads are better
true
quote:
Cars are safer
true
However, the stupidity/irresponsibility of the American driver is at an all time high.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:35 am to NewIberiaHaircut
As someone that drives 12 from Hammond to BR regularly, I will say in my experience the vast majority of traffic related issues are caused by 18 wheelers out of the right hand lane.
Case in point: I drove to Juban Crossing yesterday. Left Hammond and did not exceed 60 mph until I got to the bridge before Walker. There were two trucks camped out in the left lane trying to pass a truck in the right. After they finally cleared, all manner of people weaved in and out to shoot past these guys.
I can't tell you how many times I see 18 wheelers in the morning drive with 40 car lengths in front of them camped out in the left and middle lanes. You say "Well it takes these trucks longer to stop". Great. Do it in the right hand lane.
Restrict truck traffic to right lane only or have the cops enforce the left lane passing only rules. If it takes you 40 miles to pass a vehicle in the right lane, you shouldn't be passing.
Whats the bigger threat to public safety, a guy cruising 80 in a 70 or a trucker holding up traffic for miles by passing another vehicle driving <1 mph faster than the other vehicle?
Case in point: I drove to Juban Crossing yesterday. Left Hammond and did not exceed 60 mph until I got to the bridge before Walker. There were two trucks camped out in the left lane trying to pass a truck in the right. After they finally cleared, all manner of people weaved in and out to shoot past these guys.
I can't tell you how many times I see 18 wheelers in the morning drive with 40 car lengths in front of them camped out in the left and middle lanes. You say "Well it takes these trucks longer to stop". Great. Do it in the right hand lane.
Restrict truck traffic to right lane only or have the cops enforce the left lane passing only rules. If it takes you 40 miles to pass a vehicle in the right lane, you shouldn't be passing.
Whats the bigger threat to public safety, a guy cruising 80 in a 70 or a trucker holding up traffic for miles by passing another vehicle driving <1 mph faster than the other vehicle?
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:36 am to NewIberiaHaircut
Councilman Delgado does not approve of this PSA.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:36 am to NewIberiaHaircut
bad idea.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:38 am to NewIberiaHaircut
A collision at 85 mph is going to be brutal
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:49 am to NewIberiaHaircut
We need a gotdam Autobahn over here!
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:55 am to NewIberiaHaircut
People can't even drive 70 on the interstate now without crashing into something or someone else.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:56 am to NewIberiaHaircut
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Roads are better, Cars are safer, Let's raise the speed limit.
I have a very amateur theory (with nothing to back it up, but that qualifies me to be an internet traffic expert), IMO 70mph is the worst because it is fast enough to kill but slow enough for ppl to feel like it is safe to text, social media, mess with the radio etc. If we took away the speed limits on the interstate ppl would drive based on traffic conditions and not some artifical limit and they would be less likely to check their phones when they are going 90 than they are going 70.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 9:58 am to NewIberiaHaircut
I'm neither a boot licker nor anti-police, but typically would be more on the bootlicker side of the scale.
I say that to give credence to my observation- no where else in the world that I have driven (a fair number of places) do I feel like highway patrol is out to get you the way they are here. Only in America do we have frickers hiding in ditches and behind trees pointing a radar gun to make a quick ticket.
Even if someone is parked on the side of the road watching the highway, people "speed" by without incident. No slamming on brakes, etc. They're there to catch actual assholes driving unsafe.
Thoughts and reflections by Swoopin, 7/6/2015.
I say that to give credence to my observation- no where else in the world that I have driven (a fair number of places) do I feel like highway patrol is out to get you the way they are here. Only in America do we have frickers hiding in ditches and behind trees pointing a radar gun to make a quick ticket.
Even if someone is parked on the side of the road watching the highway, people "speed" by without incident. No slamming on brakes, etc. They're there to catch actual assholes driving unsafe.
Thoughts and reflections by Swoopin, 7/6/2015.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 10:00 am to NewIberiaHaircut
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There is no reason that the limit shouldn't be 85 there.
DA FAQ? No way I want Johnny Truck Nuts in his F-450 pulling a 20' trailer going 85 MPH any where near me.
I agree with the 75 MPH speed limit though (I also think they need to set the minimum speed to closer to 60-65)
Posted on 7/6/15 at 10:05 am to NewIberiaHaircut
I feel there should be speed limit brackets based on special licensing, from 55mph up to unlimited, with the higher tiered licensing requiring more rigorous training and more frequent re-testing.
There would need to be laws regarding maximum passing speed, so that you don't have someone going 55 getting passed at 155.
This would extend to vehicles as well. Each vehicle would be given a maximum speed rating class,
Class A - unlimited
Class B - 120 mph
Class C- 70 mph
...or something like that...This would keep some fool from trying to keep pace with a GTR in his jacked up F250
There would need to be laws regarding maximum passing speed, so that you don't have someone going 55 getting passed at 155.
This would extend to vehicles as well. Each vehicle would be given a maximum speed rating class,
Class A - unlimited
Class B - 120 mph
Class C- 70 mph
...or something like that...This would keep some fool from trying to keep pace with a GTR in his jacked up F250
This post was edited on 7/6/15 at 10:14 am
Posted on 7/6/15 at 10:06 am to NewIberiaHaircut
Pretty interesting evidence that speed limits actually can make drivers callous and unaware of their surroundings. Ever notice that if you're driving and you don't know what the speed limit is in the area you naturally drive more cautiously and more aware of your surroundings? Removing speed limits could make things safer period.
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