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Originally Posted by GGG
I was thinking highways with my comment since we were taking about left lane hogs. I believe design speed on 1 and 2 in most sections is 120km (might only be 70MPH in a lot of it) so a 110 speed limit with 10k buffer is pretty reasonable.
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Design speed doesn't mean maximum safe operating speed.
And, while I'm sure speed limits have some relevance to safe operation in normal traffic conditions when you're maintaining only adequate stopping distance from a car ahead of you and need to stay in your lane to avoid effects on other vehicles, when you're the only car on a multi-lane road you have vastly higher margins of safety, and the speed limit becomes highly arbitrary, and even more so for straight sections.