We have 100 KMH limit on the 400 . We get a lot of days with bad weather when no one should be driving anywhere near the speed limit but they do and the inevitable happens, major pileups in the Barrie area on the 400 .I don't think that raising the limit to 110 will make most people drive faster than they do already ,but in traditional snow belt areas there should be an 80 KMH limit in bad weather using electronic signs and like in town safety zones the fines should be doubled .
Duke Ganote - 5 years ago
The German Autobahn fatality rate was 1.7 deaths per billion-vehicle-km, far lower than the 6.3 rate for rural roads in 2017 (as usual). Vision Zero zombies brag that Sweden cut traffic fatalities in half since 2000 -- well, so did Germany!
Colin Forrest - 5 years ago
Here is the problem. You have seasoned and skilled drivers with more spare capacity and capable of manipulating a vehicle at a higher speed; then you have the majority - the lesser skilled with far less situational awareness driving at these same speeds in conditions that are beyond their capability should something go wrong. And when things go wrong, they can go very wrong and when travelling at high speed the results are often fatal. Speed limits are necessary and increasing them is simply is a recipe for disaster as driving skills are NOT improving commensurate with these speed increases. We all know that if a posted 100 km/hr exists we are good for 120 km/hr before being fined. If the limits are increased to 120 km/hr then most drivers will use 140 hm/hr as the real limit. If something goes wrong at this speed the results are significantly different than at 100km/hr or below.
Matthew Harrison - 5 years ago
You forgot to mention how much more money the government makes off artificially low limits.
Please also touch on how the main contributing factor to most collisions is speed DIFFERENTIAL which is exacerbated by artificial limits that don’t match road design speed.
Thanks for the great article though!
Dave Shelley - 5 years ago
Speed doesn't kill. Hitting something while speeding kills, and it's the "hitting something" part of the equation that causes accidents.
Robert Carleton - 5 years ago
Regardless of the speed limits there will always be bad drivers and bad drivers get in more accidents. Perhaps better training combined with higher speed limits is one approach. The true test of a law is whether the people willingly obey it. Go on any major highway with a speed limit of 100 km/hr and you will invariably find a large percentage of the traffic exceeding the limit.
We have 100 KMH limit on the 400 . We get a lot of days with bad weather when no one should be driving anywhere near the speed limit but they do and the inevitable happens, major pileups in the Barrie area on the 400 .I don't think that raising the limit to 110 will make most people drive faster than they do already ,but in traditional snow belt areas there should be an 80 KMH limit in bad weather using electronic signs and like in town safety zones the fines should be doubled .
The German Autobahn fatality rate was 1.7 deaths per billion-vehicle-km, far lower than the 6.3 rate for rural roads in 2017 (as usual). Vision Zero zombies brag that Sweden cut traffic fatalities in half since 2000 -- well, so did Germany!
Here is the problem. You have seasoned and skilled drivers with more spare capacity and capable of manipulating a vehicle at a higher speed; then you have the majority - the lesser skilled with far less situational awareness driving at these same speeds in conditions that are beyond their capability should something go wrong. And when things go wrong, they can go very wrong and when travelling at high speed the results are often fatal. Speed limits are necessary and increasing them is simply is a recipe for disaster as driving skills are NOT improving commensurate with these speed increases. We all know that if a posted 100 km/hr exists we are good for 120 km/hr before being fined. If the limits are increased to 120 km/hr then most drivers will use 140 hm/hr as the real limit. If something goes wrong at this speed the results are significantly different than at 100km/hr or below.
You forgot to mention how much more money the government makes off artificially low limits.
Please also touch on how the main contributing factor to most collisions is speed DIFFERENTIAL which is exacerbated by artificial limits that don’t match road design speed.
Thanks for the great article though!
Speed doesn't kill. Hitting something while speeding kills, and it's the "hitting something" part of the equation that causes accidents.
Regardless of the speed limits there will always be bad drivers and bad drivers get in more accidents. Perhaps better training combined with higher speed limits is one approach. The true test of a law is whether the people willingly obey it. Go on any major highway with a speed limit of 100 km/hr and you will invariably find a large percentage of the traffic exceeding the limit.