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Would you be okay with 80?
Speed Kills Your Pocket Book
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If you actually read those studies, you would find that those drivers - dumb or otherwise - are mostly going 120-ish in a 100 zone and would continue to go 120-ish no matter the speed limit. In other words: no change. In reality: change for the better, because the small number of limit-followers that are currently driving below the flow of traffic would either (a) speed up, thus more closely following the traffic, or (b) in the case of elderly or timid drivers who lack the necessary competence for whatever reason, opt to get off the road.
There is probably also a non-trivial effect that raising the limit to 130 would mean that drivers doing 120-ish could now do so while no longer devoting a small portion of their attention span towards looking for police cars and slowing down when they see them.
Almost all of continental Europe has a motorway speed limit of 130 km/h or thereabouts, and on the unlimited sections of German autobahn, 130 is the recommended speed.
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Then you better keep to the right.
I have no problem with dawdlers...the BIG problem with self entitled idiotic Toronto traffic is that everyone that does 100...bombs straight from the onramp into the left hand lane where they can zone out because there is nobody infront of them. The 2km of parked traffic behind them, meh they'd have to look in their mirrors to see that.
4xx highways, they were rated for 140km/h in the 60's, with 60's cars running 60's tires...your Accord or Camry has no problem today cruising at 140km/h on the highways. The only problem is the nut behind the wheel.
