That is a good point, I do think a lot of ‘speeding’ issues come down to limits that are set too low for what people consider a natural speed for a section of road. I definitely agree that if you want people to drive slowly the road should encourage that speed - narrower lanes, curves, tree plantings etc help. Instead you get situations like how the ACT gov dropped a good section of wide three lane arterial road from 60km/h to 40km/h, changed nothing but the signs, and then acted shocked that the vast majority of people were now speeding…
Yeah, exactly so! It would make so much more sense to cut that section down to 1 lane each way plus a fully separated bike path, but our councils and state governments insist on every road being both a place where businesses and homes can be located and an efficient route for cars to bypass.
It does piss me off a bit that cars handle and perform better and are way safer than they were, but speeds keep reducing.
Then I remember that today’s top 3 selling vehicles are trucks, and the average ‘car’ is actually a SUV which weigh about 50% more than a Falcon or Commodore used to.
So we’re probably lucky they haven’t halved all the road speeds lol
No they aren’t. They are for the people in them, but if anything the average (mean) car is more dangerous now than it used to be for people outside of the car, thanks to the rise of ridiculous yank tanks.
If anything, the problem is that our speed limits are too high still on streets where people live and where they’re accessing businesses.
That is a good point, I do think a lot of ‘speeding’ issues come down to limits that are set too low for what people consider a natural speed for a section of road. I definitely agree that if you want people to drive slowly the road should encourage that speed - narrower lanes, curves, tree plantings etc help. Instead you get situations like how the ACT gov dropped a good section of wide three lane arterial road from 60km/h to 40km/h, changed nothing but the signs, and then acted shocked that the vast majority of people were now speeding…
Yeah, exactly so! It would make so much more sense to cut that section down to 1 lane each way plus a fully separated bike path, but our councils and state governments insist on every road being both a place where businesses and homes can be located and an efficient route for cars to bypass.
It does piss me off a bit that cars handle and perform better and are way safer than they were, but speeds keep reducing.
Then I remember that today’s top 3 selling vehicles are trucks, and the average ‘car’ is actually a SUV which weigh about 50% more than a Falcon or Commodore used to.
So we’re probably lucky they haven’t halved all the road speeds lol
No they aren’t. They are for the people in them, but if anything the average (mean) car is more dangerous now than it used to be for people outside of the car, thanks to the rise of ridiculous yank tanks.
If anything, the problem is that our speed limits are too high still on streets where people live and where they’re accessing businesses.