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Originally Posted by Jim Goose
How many cars are there in the NT when compared to Bisbane? or Sydney?
Open speed limits (which Police could still pull you over if your car was deemed by them to be unsafe for high speed correct?) would probably work fine in areas where the only traffic you see are the occasional Roo.
Why is it every day i go to work (a simple 8km drive) i am constantly tail gated or cut off by impatient drivers? Or every single time i get on the Bruce Highway i see the same thing within minutes of reaching 100kmh?
The problem is that most drivers here appear to have some sort of death wish and no its not a minority. People can argue till blue in the face that we need higher speed limits... but it will NEVER happen because our roads are rubbish and our attitude when driving stinks.
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Well there are far fewer cars in Brisbane or Sydney than in Germany but of course Germany does not have mostly Australian drivers.
Why is it that as soon as higher speed limits are mentioned the same old dogma appears.
1) I believe it will be carnage......but where ever it has actually been done it was not carnage. No one has ever shown evidence on here of an example of where increasing speed limits increased the road toll.
2) People will go crazy and won't be able to control their vehicles at high speed...... maybe most people are actually not like you.
3) 200km/h school zones, oh the horror.......it is not 110 everywhere so why would it be open (or 130) everywhere, even NT had speed limits in all urban and many rural places before 2007.
I personally believe that the biggest fear the anti open (or 130++) limits advocates have is that it WILL work which will mean that they are WRONG and to many people especially academics there is nothing worse than being proven wrong so they will go to any extent and any cost to avoid this happening.