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Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
Accident at Gateway and Chief Peguis last night.
80 km/h zone, so people averaging closer to 90, going through an intersection with traffic lights and no advance warning on CPT that the signal is going to change.
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That really is unfortunate to hear. This is the problem with "expressways" that should have interchanges of some sort, to mitigate these kinds of accidents...or at the very least have advanced warning light changes. I have only driven down CPT a handful of times; why aren't there advance warning lights there?
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Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
The roads are not safe enough to warrant a speed limit in excess of 100 km/h.
Even that stretch of 75 south of Morris is not safe enough to be posted as 110 because of the very dangerous intersections at 14 and esp. at Letellier as 75 curves there limiting visibility. Trucks are often crossing the highway unsafely and somtimes sitting in the median. I've seen a couple of near misses there that would certainly have been fatal. Plus, the shoulders on 75 are inadequate along most of the highway.
All rural roads in the province are 90 unless otherwise posted , even washboard gravel roads, where 90 would probably put the car in the ditch. In the U.K., the motorways are 70 mph and that's multiple lanes and full limited access.
Even in the city there needs to be rationalization of speed limits. Example, Marion and Goulet are 60 which is too fast for those streets as both have numerous driveways, curb parking, traffic lights and are both bus routes with a fair amount of pedestrian traffic...yet Concordia east of Panet is 50?
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Yeah, the concordia one is confusing. No consistency in certain parts of the city.
the UK example isn't a fair one though - people used to drive faster, but the advent of speed cameras to make money has become the trend there for the past 10-15 years and keeps getting worse. They make a
lot of money from the speed cameras. The recent additional ones on the M1 were claimed to facilitate the traffic rush and gridlock by implementing - "enforcing" - slower speeds for constant traffic flow, but they really did it for the moolah it brings in.