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Originally Posted by Sliver
Oh please.
A. They were drunk.
B. They were going beyond the limits of the road design. Nobody here is advocating randomly increasing the limits to break-neck speeds. We want the speed limits to be increased (where applicable) to the design speed limits of the roads.
Did you even watch the video? We're talking about increasing speed limits in the context of the video, not just willy-nilly.
It's like you're saying increasing speed limits to reasonable levels will cause hit and runs, pile-ups on Glenmore and teenagers to drink and drive then drive like idiots while in their sports car.
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Nothing has been indicated so far that they were drunk,
but speed was a factor.
I have no problem with people appealing for higher speed limits in certain cases. Go to town. Let the engineers decide.
But there will always be people that will feel they can go significantly faster (or slower) than others, thus the higher likelihood of collisions (not accidents, BTW).
And on another note on my week, I would like to catch up to the idiot that almost caused a masive pileup on Bow Tr at Sarcee when he came absolutely flying down behind me, passing on my right (where I was signalling to go.) He damn near took out the truck/trailer that was coming left into my lane (behind me) AND me. There couldn't have been 20 feet between the truck/trailer and myself (both changing lanes and doing the speed limit) yet this @$$hat going about 30 faster than both of us didn't care. Again ran off like a chickenshyte jackrabbit.
If I didn't BARELY catch him in the corner of one of my mirrors at the last second....