Incoming pilot project to take aim at speeding rates on QEII/major highways.

[Buster]

Guys the carbon tax is not about climate change. It's about revenue.

Speeding regulations are not about safety. They are about revenue.

[JustinL]

Originally posted by HiTempguy1


Welcome to Britain where they have cameras everywhere... or 1984

Have you driven in Britain? 90% of the time if you are speeding in the UK, you probably are driving too fast. I would trade our system for theirs in a heartbeat. Simple system and reasonably fast speed limits. Any dual carriage way (divided road) in the UK is 113kph, and single carriage way (most country roads) is 97kph.

[g-m]

Have you driven elsewhere in Europe? Spain's 130+ seems fine. Germany was great. Nobody obeys speed limits in Europe anyway and it's great

[Seth1968]

Between 2009 and 2014, speed was a factor in 16 per cent of the total 6,351 fatal and serious injury collisions reported in Alberta RCMP jurisdictions.

What do they mean by "factor"?

In addition, speed is a factor in all collisions. So are cars.

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by g-m
Have you driven elsewhere in Europe? Spain's 130+ seems fine. Germany was great. Nobody obeys speed limits in Europe anyway and it's great

Except the Dutch and I have a $300 Euro ticket to prove that.

[jacky4566]

Originally posted by Buster
I think average speed cameras are in our future.

Oh dear lord I hope not. Ill be getting a James bond style license plate if that happens.

[Sugarphreak]

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[JustinL]

Originally posted by g-m
Have you driven elsewhere in Europe? Spain's 130+ seems fine. Germany was great. Nobody obeys speed limits in Europe anyway and it's great

That's my point. It's not the enforcement and surveillance that is the problem, it's the artificially low limits we have here. There's speed cameras all over europe, but coupled with reasonable limits, it works way better than it does here.

[btimbit]

Speed was a factor in 16% of accidents. Not even necessarily the main factor, just a factor. Yet, I bet the effort used to curb speeding is way higher than 16% of their focus.


I'd have no problem with speed enforcement, IF:

-The amount of focus it gets is in line with the amount of harm it causes, freeing up resources to enforce things that are actually much more harmful like poor vehicle equipment, distractions, etc.

-Speed limits were set appropriately

Governments have a bad habit around here of getting tunnel vision and creating a war against what they're trying to stop. Rather than looking at ways to reduce accidents, they put the blinders on and attack whats easiest

[16hypen3sp]

Bump. Lobbying has commenced to get QEII at max 80kph in Leduc. What's the over/under on Airdrie doing the same at some point?

https://globalnews.ca/news/10244605/...limit-alberta/

[pheoxs]

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Bump. Lobbying has commenced to get QEII at max 80kph in Leduc. What's the over/under on Airdrie doing the same at some point?

https://globalnews.ca/news/10244605/...limit-alberta/

Airdrie fuck no. Leduc I can sort of see, that one bend is kind of tight and seen lots of idiot drivers there over the years. What they should do is rebuild it like they did Red Deer.

[ThePenIsMightier]

It should be like 60 (during shitty weather) throughout that part where everyone dies in Leduc. That's a super dangerous part and it's less than 1km long.

[firebane]

Maybe they need to do a study on how those changes really don't do jack shit. Look at the 80 zone heading east out of Calgary. Seldomly do you actually see people doing 80 in that zone and the other side of Chestermere is 80 but people slow down because cops always patrol there.

Yes you could enforce more but then why reduce the speed if that is the solution?

[ExtraSlow]

A complete realignment for that stretch 8s the solution. It is fuck.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

80 is too slow, 90-100 is ok for that stretch in Leduc IMO.

[16hypen3sp]

The fact they haven't rebuilt it yet is comical. That elevated bend (The Rollercoaster is what I think people were calling it) isn't the only problem. There's also the short on ramp onto a 2 lane QEII section northbound (2A NB onto QEII NB). They put up a sign saying be courteous and move over because people can't grasp the concept of pressing the gas pedal down and accelerating on an on-ramp in Alberta.

[ExtraSlow]

Total rebuild is required for that "rollercoaster" portion.

[firebane]

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Total rebuild is required for that "rollercoaster" portion.

And no more than a few minutes north they have been redoing the highway there for years.

[ExtraSlow]

Yeah, just keep the equipment and cones around, slide em south.

[vengie]

QE2 needs to be 4 lanes each way between Calgary and Edm