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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
It’s hard to believe this many people could be this oblivious. You guys are playing dumb intentionally right? OPs post is obvious and this is a surprising level of stupidity and obtuseness even for CP.
He’s talking about who actually determines when the lines on a single lane highway change from dotted to solid, which tells drivers when it’s ok to pass vs not. I’m assuming they have some sort of system for it? i doubt the guy painting the lines just eyeballs what he thinks are safe passing zones and that the traffic engineers have a system but who knows. It seems to me many are wildly inaccurate anyways, with clear safe passing areas solid and dangerous as all hell areas dotted.
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I'm pretty sure it's engineers. You don't let some painter eyeball it.
I think most of that stuff is digitally modeled and there's probably some provincial digital super maps out there that shows what it's supposed to be, what it's capable of and what it's actually set at.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/dr...iew_report.pdf
But another issue we have is that many roads have speed limits set significantly below their engineered speeds, especially in BC. The Trans Canada has the same speed for how long even though safety features and capabilities of vehicles have increased significantly?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...erta-1.5949691
... And after reading that article, apparently the primary reason in AB why we don't have 120 kmph speed limits is fuel consumption concerns (carbon emissions) as opposed to reasons of safety.