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Originally Posted by GGG
Speed limits are pretty close to where they should be once you account for the 10 cushion in enforcement. If you look at BC highway limits which are now set by design speeds for the roads you can seem that in general ours are reasonable.
I’d prefer to see variable limits on the 2 and the 1 so that during busy conditions speed limits would be lowered to reduce the accordion affect and improve through put.
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Thats just not true,
If that were true the west end of Stoney north of highway 1 wouldn't be 80.
John Laurie wouldn't be 70.
16th on the east end of town would not be 70 at the last set of lights.
The rest of Stoney would we 110
Deerfoot south of Barlow would be 110
Highway 1 & 2 out of town would be 120.
Crowchild north of the university wouldn't be 80
and I'm just starting with examples.
The problem isn't just that the speed limits are wrong but that they are conceptually wrong, they are a very weak atempt at creating a standard measure for someone being in control of their vehical, weakly enforced, so they are virtually meaningless.
Since we are all beholden to weak subjective enforcement by police, we might was well just let the use a subjective measure too, and punish people for not being in control rather than punishing for crossing some imaginary line that serves only to create tension on roadways.