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Originally Posted by Locke
Speed doesnt kill..its the suddenly becoming stationary that gets you.
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Unless you get T-boned by a car going 150 while trying to cross the highway to turn left from a stop sign intersection. Then speed is killing you, the other driver, and all of the passengers.
I really do not think the ROI is there on this change. More risk, likely more fatalities, just so some people can have a heavier foot on the gas pedal?
The trade off between FREEDUMB and killing people doesn't add up.
More fatalities possible if province raises speed limits on highways, warns motor association
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It found that a five mile-per-hour climb in speed limits was associated with eight per cent more fatalities. It attributed more than 37,000 deaths in the U.S. over the previous 25 years to looser constraints, adding 1,934 people “would still be alive if speed limits hadn’t changed since 1993.”
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Stoney Trail already has problems with kids going on there and treating it like a race track... but even without that, the speeds lead to pretty scary accidents:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/com...n_dead_stoney/
I get the argument from the UCP perspective. They don't care if people die as long as we stop talking about toppling the government or closely looking at the terrible things they are doing.
I don't really get the argument from anyone else.