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[VIC] Speed limit lift in Victoria

Mike Litherous

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An upgraded licence is not a bad idea. Easy to do in VIC as we have number plate recognition. Use it for something useful rather than trying to nab students and other poor people who are late on thier rego by a few days.


Prob need a wholesale change and some sort of lite annual roadworthy as part of the rego.

As long as u keep up the rego you can get away with the car in a poor condition especially if it's a fly under the radar type of car.

It's funny how if driving in the outback or low policed roads you normally sit on 120-130 as diving at say 150 you start to use more fuel.

130 seems to be the internationally adopted speed and can't see why it wouldn't work in Victoria. Especially on the rural freeways and in dry conditions. Perhaps a 110/130 for wet/dry would make sence.

More education would be needed to keep left etc but that sort of good driving is contagious. They don't do it now so much as they used to as pretty well 75% of people sit 10km under the limit with no idea they are holding up everyone as they are too busy (legally) talking on thier hands free which is probably more dangerous on the freeway than having 4 beers.
 

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Excuse me for coming back in here, but one of the things out on the open road in good conditions are the "safety drivers" keeping 4 or 5 under the speed limit on their speedometer say in a 100 zone holding everything up.
The trouble is these people seem to have no idea they are actually only doing about 90 because their speedo. is generally reading about 5% more than the actual speed.
 

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Problem is speeds have to be set for the poorest drivers not the better drivers. A large proportion of the population can't drive safely at 50kph. We need to raise the driving standard. If the speed limits were 150kph there would still be those that think they can text at that speed.
Indeed, but that's why it's so important to have limits set at a value which has the least chance of a crash when the most ignorant numpty is behind the wheel.
Road safety research, which has been ignored here because it doesn't push the agenda appropriately, says we should be aiming for the 85th percentile as a limit, as that's what pretty-much everyone gravitates to & it eliminates the speed-differences which tend to result in the accidents. Roads like Sydney's M2 which was designed for 130 would have fewer crashes & injuries if you sent 200 semi-trained baboons driving down it at 130km/h than at the current limit of 100km/h.

More education would be needed to keep left etc but that sort of good driving is contagious. They don't do it now so much as they used to as pretty well 75% of people sit 10km under the limit with no idea they are holding up everyone as they are too busy (legally) talking on thier hands free which is probably more dangerous on the freeway than having 4 beers.
Well, not if you're drinkin' all 4 at once while driving ... :)

But yes, and in fact what you've said is the biggest contributor to road trauma - not the people on the 'phones so much, but the ignorant sods who don't care how much they affect others as long as they can be in their own little world doing what they want to do.
Think about the moron overtaking in dodgy places & taking big risks; yes, them having a crash is their fault, but even THEY wouldn't be doing it if not for the ignorant being in the way.
 

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Little known fact about the hume and this fact is 30yrs old,
if not older as the whole Hume revamp project was done in the late 70's early 80's

The Hume HWY/FWY is designed for a constant speed of 160kph,

so 130kph is acceptable and a no brainer , a moron should be able to drive the hume at 130kph

It'd be a good start and hopefully other hwy/fwy's will follow as well as toll roads
 

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Little known fact about the hume and this fact is 30yrs old,
if not older as the whole Hume revamp project was done in the late 70's early 80's.

Not quite. The last section of the Hume upgrade around Holbrook was only completed around 2011 or 12.
 

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Not quite. The last section of the Hume upgrade around Holbrook was only completed around 2011 or 12.

used to be the spot where the little old crossing lady could stop the whole of the hume whenever she wanted during the crossing times.
story of the hume is in a book we read for school. called "Bypass the story of a road"
 

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I hope that this MP is listened to but I am worried that he won't be. I think there is way too much political correctness pushing the message that going faster is bad and too much of a sense of entitlement that people have a right to drive, which is wrong. A driving licence is a privilege and not a right. If a person is not able to maintain control of a motor vehicle at a suitable speed for the conditions they should not be licensed to drive a car.

It's bad drivers, people doing the things mentioned above like on the phone and not watching the road or driving a way below the limit and holding up everyone else who is trying to get to where they need to go. Speed cameras are a wank too, pinning people for going 2km/h over the speed limit does not enhance road safety. If the government is serious about road safety, start by getting people who have lost their licence off the road. A lot of crashes, certainly ones that cause injuries seem to involve people who lost their licence. But pinning people who's speedo's are off by 2km/h only stings the ordinary motorist while doing nothing to make the roads safer.
 

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FWIW Crowny, mines off 5 km/h. 110 km/h zone I set cruise at 116 and don't get pinged.

Slow holding up people need to check their actual speed and get serious about their driving habits.
 

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It's bad drivers, people doing the things mentioned above like on the phone and not watching the road or driving a way below the limit and holding up everyone else who is trying to get to where they need to go. Speed cameras are a wank too, pinning people for going 2km/h over the speed limit does not enhance road safety. If the government is serious about road safety, start by getting people who have lost their licence off the road. A lot of crashes, certainly ones that cause injuries seem to involve people who lost their licence. But pinning people who's speedo's are off by 2km/h only stings the ordinary motorist while doing nothing to make the roads safer.
Speed cameras obviously make worse drivers; they make people lose their licenses, which then makes them more likely to cause injuries ... :D
 

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Speed cameras make people look at the speedo Too much so yes they make people worse drivers cos they aren't watching what's in front.
 
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