WA speed limit debate
The Office of Road Safety in Western Australia has released a discussion paper which proposes reducing the speed limit in regional areas from 110kmh to 100kmh.
The Monash University (Victoria) experts who prepared the report say that lowering speed limits will reduce the number of traffic accidents.
They are right, of course, but as letter writers to the Kalgoorlie Miner and others have suggested, having a man walk in front of cars waving a flag will also reduce the number of accidents.
The report says: “Rezoning a 110kmh open road to 100kmh would only add five minutes to a 100km trip.”
That’s true, but for the 600km journey from Kalgoorlie to Melbourne it will add half an hour.
The feedback I’ve heard in the local community has been overwhelmingly against the idea. So much so, we made it the front page story tomorrow in the Kalgoorlie Miner.
Most people would prefer to see road improvements, increased police presence and better driver education instead of a lower speed limit.
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Its Pretty stupid in my opinion. They reduce the speed limit down the great northern hwy a few years ago because of the amount of crashes. reduced from 110 to 100 made no difference to the number of crashes at all. In fact the amount rose slightly the year after it was done.
It was later discovered that the amount of crashes was caused by the potholes and bumps on the road rather than the speed but they are yet to do anything about that. Also the parts of the road they have fixed up in the past year already have potholes in them. It’s bullshit, if they want to reduce the amount of crashes they should fix the road properly.
I don’t want to have to drive slower and take longer to get to where I want to go because the government doesn’t want to fix our roads.