40 kph Calgary speed limits poll on Global

[reijo]

Global had a news story on the news this evening about lowering the unposted speed limit to 40 kph from 50 kph.

Personally I think 50 is too low! And, of course, that Druh Farrel is involved ... Lower it more and I think you'll have more collisions due to speed differentials. Plus aren't you taking long enough to get around the city yet? This is not a small prairie town anymore!

Anyway, Global TV is having a poll on it .... post your opinion here:

http://globalnews.ca/news/2329134/ok...lgary-be-next/

I hope this stupidity goes away!

R


Reijo

[rage2]

We got converted to 30 zones in the dumbest of places, 40 is next city wide regardless of what we say. We're just a bunch of frogs in a pot and city council is slowly turning up the heat.

[speedog]

I'd consider 40 on purely residential streets if the city dropped all 30 zones.

[schocker]

Come on slowdownyyc!!!!!!!!!
So stupid, especially 30 for sunnyside.
If drivers assume pedestrians are morons, and pedestrians assume drivers are morons then we would be OK.

I also enjoy how drive for conditions is just passed on by. If the road is full of cars barely a lane wide, then guess what, a driver who drives for conditions wouldn't drive 50 ffs

[HomespunLobster]

I drive 40 in residential zones, when it's cars on both sides etc. I watched 5 cars blow through a crosswalk the other day as someone wanted to cross. The first person to stop had a partial sudden stop, she was halfway accross the street and still another person blew through the crosswalk. The other person to stop slammed on their brakes.
50 to 40 isn't really going to effect your time getting home from a long day of work, but can help you react faster to stupid pedestrians.

[revelations]

If no one complains, the city will keep pushing through these idiotic ideas. How many people die every day from someone going 50 instead of 40?

Nighttime winter 30kph school zones is just the start.

[lilmira]

Screw 30, go zero. No movement, no collision, it's physics! No running engine, no pollution!

[The_Rural_Juror]

No schools, no problems.

[zieg]

Originally posted by lilmira
Screw 30, go zero. No movement, no collision, it's physics! No running engine, no pollution!

It's brilliant!

Jeez I'm not sure if my winter car can GO that slow. High idle low stall converter = practically riding the brakes through 30 zones anyways.

[Sentry]

Originally posted by lilmira
Screw 30, go zero. No movement, no collision, it's physics! No running engine, no pollution!

You're ignoring relativity you fool! We're all hurtling through space at THOUSANDS of kilometres per hour! Think of the children!

[frizzlefry]

Can't count how many times someone in a very sensible vehicle very slowly tried to run me over or cut me off. Both hands on the wheel, eyes on the speedometer. Attending to speed while in very slow manner cutting people off and rubbing bumpers when they park.

[r3ccOs]

nobody moves, nobody gets hurt.

but I have to admit, I think the deep Suburbs and downtown can be some of worst places to be a pedestrian.

living where I am now, all I see are trades trucks bombing in an out as fast as they possibly can go, to get to their next job...

or its the 7PM rush of lifted dodge ram's running to go to Wing night and the midnight or later drunken race back home.

I live in a cul de sac, where you would think that traffic should be limited to my immediate neighbors... but because of all the people who love not using their garage or driveway, I have tons of people down the street using it like a u-turn.

there are even sociopaths who deliberately tried to scare kids playing in my cul de sac, purposely, hitting the neighbor's slow turtle sign, and when being yelled at... shout back, "get your fucking kids of the road".

meanwhile, this cunt lives about 10 hours down from us.

In connaught, where I walk from where my wife parks under her building, there are more than countless times I've seen near misses on 8th, from asshats in either an Audi, BMW or a truck (yes very atypical) just because they are going too fast or just deliberately don't want to stop for the pedestrian crossing the street.

I never really experienced this when I lived in Palliser.

now I'm not saying all this is attributed to speed, but going 50k on these side streets just isn't prudent regardless of time of day.
main streets, different story... even 8th ave, I don't see reducing the speed limit making much of a difference.

[Sugarphreak]

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[FraserB]

Originally posted by r3ccOs
there are even sociopaths who deliberately tried to scare kids playing in my cul de sac, purposely, hitting the neighbor's slow turtle sign, and when being yelled at... shout back, "get your fucking kids of the road".

To be fair, neither the kids nor the sign should be on the road.

As for 40kph, who cares. The city doesn't have the resources to enforce the current speed limits and the only way for a seeding ticket to stick if for a cop or photo radar to give you one, think that will change if they drop the limit by 10kph?

[r3ccOs]

Originally posted by FraserB


To be fair, neither the kids nor the sign should be on the road.

by all rights of the road, you are correct...

last time someone drove through our game of ball hockey, and deliberately did a wide u-turn, while making eyecontact with me, I took a pretty hard clapper with the roller hockey puck at the side of his car.

Originally posted by FraserB
As for 40kph, who cares. The city doesn't have the resources to enforce the current speed limits and the only way for a seeding ticket to stick if for a cop or photo radar to give you one, think that will change if they drop the limit by 10kph?

you are also correct, will changing the limit make a difference to the rig pig at home on his short change, running around with his head cutoff to get all his honey-do list done before heading out to the gym and the bar?

likely no

[bjstare]

Originally posted by r3ccOs


by all rights of the road, you are correct...

last time someone drove through our game of ball hockey, and deliberately did a wide u-turn, while making eyecontact with me, I took a pretty hard clapper with the roller hockey puck at the side of his car.

You're just as much of a douchebag as the u-turner

[r3ccOs]

Originally posted by cjblair


You're just as much of a douchebag as the u-turner

in this case, agreed.

but who the fuck barely slows down and takes a cul de sac like an intersection to perform a u-turn?

I mean seriously this guy took it wide, fast, and kids had to jump out of his way behind other cars.

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by speedog
I'd consider 40 on purely residential streets if the city dropped all 30 zones.

2nd

[Kloubek]

There are just too many variables to lay down a blanket reduced speed. In some cases I'd probably agree with it. In some, I most certainly would not.

I see such a change being a massive cash cow with photo radar.