Ridiculously low speed limits

We have a hose pipe ban in effect in Kernow. My white car no longer identifies as white. This afternoon, and indeed as I write, we are finally getting some decent rain. Hopefully my car will emerge out of it somewhat cleaner and the mud washed off the roads from spring plowing.
What bothers me is that I am not clear on whether the Clueless Council or SouthWet Water is behind the ban. I understand concerns about a shortage. But seems to me better to ration the water and then let the user decide how he wishes to use it. You can take a hundred baths and nobody says squat, you use 3 gallons to wash the car and you are a public pariah.
 
It would be safer yet if we all stayed home all the time. Oh wait, we did that for two years and damn near
impoverished the nations.
BTW, does the Supreme Leader in Wales walk and pushbike his way about his kingdom? Eh?
 
Doubt it, the official FM vehicle takes care of that !

I realise his wife just died ( poor dab ) sorry and all that … but … I doubt he walked to and from the funeral

Actually that may have been where he had the slow drive theory from ?
 
Well he may feel bad but at least she was released from life with him. No small victory.
...for some reason he has the same look and feel as that Giant of Medicine Tony Fauci.
You know, the kid that had no friends in school and with good reason. It only got worse
(for us) from there.
 
'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' - risk-based legislation is often better than prescriptive. For every rule, there are always exceptions. Proactive is always better than reactive. I am not religious - I live my life ethically and I am risk conscious. Morals are for idiots. I do not speed on public roads - I do that on race circuits.

 
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Dude if you lived here you’d be banned in a week !!

If you lived here I’d say “ don’t speed on public roads “ .. my arse !!!

Actually if you lived here I’d be swearing 🤬
 

The Inconvenient Truth: Lowered Speed Limits Have Not Reduced Road Deaths​

Sunday, 1 January 2023, 4:06 am

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The Inconvenient Truth: Lowered Speed Limits Have Not Reduced Road Deaths

The increased 2022 road toll is not bad luck, but bad management, says the car review website dogandlemon. Editor Clive Matthew-Wilson, who is an outspoken road safety campaigner, says: “The government’s attempt to reduce road deaths through mass ...
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Grandad said:
I feel the echo’s here on the other side of the world they are part of a new sphere of physics - empathic reasonance !
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We are all getting shafted...it a woke global problem
Snippet from this article
But New Zealand’s roads are in decline, said roading industry body Civil Contractors NZ, and they are going backwards with not enough money invested in long-term work.

READ MORE:
* Taranaki state highway summer sealing programme 50% complete
* Bitumen production: Technix Industries eyes role as Z Energy plans exit
* Drivers cry foul over car damage as region's roadworks ramp up

“With the roads in their current state, you see it on social media and a couple of my mates say ‘oh it’s just bitumen’, but there is no link,” said Stacy Goldsworthy, CCNZ technical manager.



Before Marsden Point closed earlier this year, the refinery produced about 70% of the country’s bitumen for roads, with 30% of it imported. Now 100% is imported.

In 2016, with roads melting in the heat and breaking apart too easily, Waka Kotahi issued a new national standard for bitumen, the oil-based binding agent for asphalt. Bitumen must meet a national standard when it leaves the manufacturer.

Goldsworthy said New Zealand was a tiny market for bitumen, using about as much in a year as China used in a day

Stuff

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They say speed kills so yhere way of thinking slow everyone down, but here in Aus road deaths each year is climbing lowering the speed limits in suburban areas to save the kids and all who cross roads but the death rates in suburban areas was and has always been low so the proof was never there, most road deaths have been caused by other vehicles (cars, trucks as well motorcycles) most accidents involve inexperience drivers, fatigue, distraction and of course roads.
In Aus our distant are far and wide, outback roads aren't good and our highways are old and need major upgrades which they are doing but mostly in the major populated areas, you leave the populated areas and the roads get worst not better as it's all about money, it's just not there for road improvement and the distant come into play.
Our small population of 24 million in such a big open country just not enough money in the bank to improve our country roads and ownership of cars and truck is increasing every year.
So by the reports and studies slowing the speed limits hasn't slowed down the road toll at all, in fact it's getting worst, well here in Aus anyway, traffic flow needs to keep flowing not be slowed down on our major roads, more accidents happen in traffic stop and go in traffic and vehicles are getting faster not slower, people are getting more impatient on our roads and take more risks, young people stealing cars for joyrides and wiping out innocent people or their mates from high speed crashes.
What's the answer, who knows but slowing everyone down is not the answer, bigger fine increases be more money in the coffers for the Gov but that money never goes back into new roads or road safety, maybe a little does but the majority of the money goes into paying their debts from all their mistakes of being in Gov, but in the mean time we all suffer from bad management and slowing everyone down won't work it just makes more people inpatient and frustrated which will cause more accidents and deaths on our roads.
Get more people on public transport won't work here in my state as the Gov keep increasing the fares, we pay the most in public transport than any other Aus state so really they are so out of touch with normal people, we work hard to just live but they keep taking and not give much back and our roads suffer.
No matter what there will always be road deaths and slowing everyone down is not the answer, will only make it worst and the figures are there.
 
You should see the pot holes and tarmac trenches where I live, makes me glad I have an old Land Rover for 4x4 ability ….. and that is just on tarmac !!!!


All this speed limit shit reminds me of an Aussie group
“ Men at work “

Lyric

I come from a land of 20

Motorists roar and the fines are plenty
 
I got a speeding ticket on the M4 in Wales - I was clocked at 94mph. I spoke to someone at the records office because I received a summons to court because I hadn’t replied to the NIP in time. She, delightful lady, told me she was able to cancel the summons if I agreed to a £60 fine and 3 points. Naturally I was delighted as I was expecting perhaps a ban.
 
Onder said:
We have a hose pipe ban in effect in Kernow. My white car no longer identifies as white. This afternoon, and indeed as I write, we are finally getting some decent rain. Hopefully my car will emerge out of it somewhat cleaner and the mud washed off the roads from spring plowing.
What bothers me is that I am not clear on whether the Clueless Council or SouthWet Water is behind the ban. I understand concerns about a shortage. But seems to me better to ration the water and then let the user decide how he wishes to use it. You can take a hundred baths and nobody says squat, you use 3 gallons to wash the car and you are a public pariah.
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You realise by selfishly washing your own car you're making a sizeable hole in the Lithuanian economy..
 
What gets me is the inconsistency in the speed limits here in my state, in the suburbs 60km lowered to 50km but most roads still 60km sign posted no sign posted 50km, then on our major highways 100km and major dual highways 110km but what gets me you be sign posted for 100 or 110km speed limit and out of nowhere nothing around open space and for some reason the posted sign will drop to 90km for less than 1km, no houses, straight road no reason at all but to trap drivers.
We have mobile speed camera trailers can be set up any where, the camera is on a adjustable pole if the camera is low they pick up speed close to the trailer, if the camera is up high they can pick up speeds up to 1 km away so they got you long before you see them.
They now have hand held radars and car mounted radars with built in cameras so they don't even have to pull you over, you just get a ticket in the mail.
They are even setting up old cars and vans that have been turned into camera cars that sit on the side of the road with a copper inside instead of doing their job of fighting crime, it's a big money earner for the Gov noting to do with road safety, come in suckers.
 
I would offer that low skill/inattentive/impaired drivers kill, slowing the world down to bonehead speed is NOT the answer.
Ridiculously low speed limits
 
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