I wonder if they are smart enough to try and geo block the survey so only people in Alberta can fill it out. I am guessing not but maybe one of our friends outside of Alberta can let us know.
No, from BC.
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What’s your opposition to higher speed limits on highways ?
No one drives 110 anyways except the strugglers.
Just a recent example as to why it might not be a good idea:
We may not get storms like that all of the time but we do have winter for nearly half of the year. Moving the "strugglers" to 120 so that more idiots can go 160 is not going to make the roads better. Just more dangerous and reckless.
But more to the point, it is just such a non-issue. At a time of NWC usage to revoke people's rights or government corruption wasting our money and eroding our public services, why is anyone talking about license plates and speed limits?????????????????????????
Speed limits are the maximum speed permitted only in ideal driving conditions, its not the speed that you have to drive all the time. Fines for driving too slow are are only if you are impeding the flow of traffic, in other words driving in the left lane at excessively slow speeds.
In my 20 years of driving the QEII the speed limit has always been 120, the law only makes it official.
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If you wanted to make roads safer in the winter Canada should adopt this for anyone getting a license or moving to Canada from a region that doesn't get snow.
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What’s your opposition to higher speed limits on highways ?
No one drives 110 anyways except the strugglers.
Just another thing to increase our insurance rates and strain emergency services. Sometimes it's helpful to look at other jurisdictions to see how it's gone for them before assuming it's a good thing.
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New research from doctors and engineers at the University of B.C. suggests the number of fatal crashes has doubled on highways where the speed limit has been hiked in recent years.
The study, published in the journal Sustainability, looked at crash and insurance claim data from the 1,300-kilometre stretches of highway where the speed limit was raised to 120 kilometres per hour in 2014.
It suggests the number of fatal crashes jumped by 118 per cent, injury claims with ICBC rose by 30 per cent and total insurance claims went up by 43 per cent.
BC followed the expert advice and reversed this decision. I expect no such prudency from the UCP should it prove to have impacts they don't talk about in their plans.
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The province said it's now started an analysis of the last three years of crash data to determine the next steps.
"Based on the results of this analysis, the ministry will consider all options for each of the 33 sections where speed limits were increased, including a potential reduction where appropriate," a ministry spokesperson said in an email.
Having just drove from Canmore to Calgary yesterday, with doofuses doing 90 in the fast lane causing semis and everyone else to have to slow and navigate around them, I see no way this doesn't ended up in increased accidents. People are just too ####ty of drivers these days for this to be a good idea. Sorry, but humanity is again why we can't have nice things.
Speed limits are the maximum speed permitted only in ideal driving conditions, its not the speed that you have to drive all the time. Fines for driving too slow are are only if you are impeding the flow of traffic, in other words driving in the left lane at excessively slow speeds.
In my 20 years of driving the QEII the speed limit has always been 120, the law only makes it official.
The interstate speed limit in Montana is 130km/h, its not like it's a novel concept.
Nobody lives in Montana.
Seriously though, there are fewer people in the entire state than Calgary. It's not a valid comparison. I'd like to be able to drive faster, but the reality of our roads, weather, and driver licensing is such that it just isn't a very smart thing for the province to do.
Seriously though, there are fewer people in the entire state than Calgary. It's not a valid comparison. I'd like to be able to drive faster, but the reality of our roads, weather, and driver licensing is such that it just isn't a very smart thing for the province to do.
I used Montana as the closest climate comparable. The interstate speed limit is 120kmh or higher in 18 states.
Montana is not a good example of governance. They've tried to get rid of their speed limits a couple of times for "freedom" and their speed limit decisions look more like throwing a dart at a board than making logical data driven decisions.
“ Now, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the Coutts border crossing into Montana isn’t the hotbed of human, gun and drug trafficking her government first thought.”
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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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