Wheels Magazine Petition - Raise the speed limit and lower the toll

[kamold]

Wheels have pulled off a stunt to demonstrate the difference a 130km/h limit could have on travel times:

Police slam speed stunt: Melbourne to Sydney in 6.5 hours | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au

Last time I drove from Melbourne to Sydney I didn't have any license plates on the car. Had the letter from Vicroads approving transfer of the vehicle to Sydney, but did not see a cop the whole way. I wasn't speeding but perhaps I should have, might have beaten a massive storm I copped coming through the Southern Highlands...

[VWindahouse]

Link to the article

Petition: Raise the limit and lower the toll!

Link to the petition

http://www.change.org/en-AU/petition...lower-the-toll

Cheers.

[AdamD]

Wheels have pulled off a stunt to demonstrate the difference a 130km/h limit could have on travel times

I've not read the article in Wheels, but based on the usual arguments that are floated, I'm all in favour of an increased national limit. On some of our freeways and highways, 110km/h is laughable.

Of course endorsing and implementing mandatory advanced driver training requires more effort of politicians and police than simply repeating the same old "speed kills" line whilst booking everyone for 5km/h over. They're almost certainly too short-sighted to consider the likely net-positive effect it'd have on state budgets in the long term too (as more educated and safer drivers reduces the number of accidents, which reduces the cost of road trauma services, and lowers the need for "speed kills" advertising, and...).

/rant

[Stanton]

Speed doesn't kill!
The idiot behind the wheel does.
Because we have so many idiots on the road the speed limit needs to be reduced .
There's the problem.

[99_FGT]

Speed doesn't kill!
The idiot behind the wheel does.
Because we have so many idiots on the road the speed limit needs to be reduced .
There's the problem.

Concept often referred to as Lowest Common Denominator, Be it vehicle or driver (or in many cases all of the above)

[dylan8]

There is a road near us that was lowered from 110 to 100, not because of the road conditions. purely to make the train a quicker option over that section of road
I'm all for raising the limit if the road width/conditions allow for it. Also if people are trained to drive at those sorts of speeds

[h100vw]

Speed doesn't kill!
The idiot behind the wheel does.
Because we have so many idiots on the road the speed limit needs to be reduced .
There's the problem.

People die in plane crashes, so lets stop flying in planes then

Gavin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BKdb...ature=youtu.be

[Ryan_R]

110 doesn't feel dangerous at all if everyone is doing it. When cars do varying speeds things get a little more dangerous. Having incorrect speedo's doesn't help, as you could have a little old lady doing an indicated 95kph on the freeway just to be safe, and actually be doing something like 88kph, whereas one of us lot could be compensating for our speedo's and going 12kph faster.


If speeds were to be adjusted higher, they could make them adjustable according to the conditions. i.e. 100kph during peak hour, or at night time, bad weather, etc, and then faster on the weekend.


The other potential problem is that if one freeway was made an autobahn overnight, every hoon within a 500km radius would make a trip to try it out, and there are plenty of cars out there who's abilities/performance are greater than that of their owners. So who knows how that would turn out.


Am I correct in understanding the the Hume now has Average Speed cameras in operation?

[sVWatt]

On some of our freeways and highways, 110km/h is laughable.
/rant

Agree - absolutely laughable. 110mph (miles per hour) is average in UK.

What is not laughable is the average punters driving skills. No concept of smart lane changing, left lane manners, driving well in the rain, use of headlights.

We need to raise driving skills before speed limits

[pologti18t]

Agree - absolutely laughable. 110mph (miles per hour) is average in UK.

110mph average on UK motorways? Pull the other one.