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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
South Dakota and parts of Wyoming also have 80 mile per hour limits. Again sparsely populated areas that don't get a lot of traffic.
Still there are stretches of the Coquihalla where it's still 120 and the average speed travelled went from 126 when it was 110 to 125 after it was increased. So for some stretches the speed limit is trivial. It's more about enforcement. That stretch from South of Leduc to Ponoka really does not have much. In ideal conditions having that stretch at 120 and enforcing anything 130 and over seems reasonable to me. What should happen is to have variable limits that adjust based on the weather and enforce those limits on the entire hiway.
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Driving between Vancouver and Calgary a LOT over the past few years, I'd have to say that the BC speed limits seem to mostly be pretty bang on (ie, I wouldn't want to drive much faster than the limit safety-wise). The divided highway in the Banff National Park with the 90km speed limit is definitely the worst stretch (driving-wise. I understand why they have it that low for the park, but it's just a slog). Then after the park to Calgary, that should all be 130 IMO.
Really all the Canadian highways outside the cities should just be autobahns. They are huge straight roads.