About 18 months ago i had a head on collision with a french tourist driving on the wrong side of the road, my wife is still traumatised from that accident!!!
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About 18 months ago i had a head on collision with a french tourist driving on the wrong side of the road, my wife is still traumatised from that accident!!!
Why was the car traveling at 200kph (how do you know his speed?) being driven by a hoon?? That was once my cruising speed (2006 ford GTP) and I am no hoon.... If you pulled out to overtake in conditions where road shimmering is an issue and you were in a vehicle with limited over taking performance I would suggest that you (or the person you were traveling with) was the one driving dangerously. I understand your frustration with Grey nomads cruising along a dangerously slow speeds but sometimes you just have to suck it up and stay put until you are 100% sure that it is safe to overtake... There is a well known fact.... Speed limits marry traffic.... de-restriction divorces it.... I live up here, I have two kids driving here (22 & 21) and I would rather they travel on the hiways here with an open speed limit than with any speed limit. It's funny how most of the proponents for speed limits come from nanny states..... People that have been dumbed down to the point they need their governments to tell then how to conduct every aspect of their life.... ( not directed at any one here)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazzman
BTW road trains etc are speed limited to 100kph..... Have been for years.....
You can suggest what ever you want .
However I can recall when we (in the nanny states) had unrestricted zones black circle with a black slash where you could travel with out speed limits provided you could prove it was safe to do so .
As stated by you 200 was your cruising speed I ask the question what would be the end result should out of no where a animal cross your path?
Don't get me wrong I love speed and have travelled at speeds greater than 200 BUT on a superbike on a controlled race track!
as for speed limiters on road trains check the date I was traveling and trust me they could go faster than 100 limited or not.
200 was a speed that was traveled at when safe to do so, things like weather, wildlife, road condition were all taken into account. The roads up here are unique in Australia. That includes northern WA. Its not possible to compare roads down south in more densely populated area's where speed limits are totally appropriate.... having said that I recently traveled the Hume freeway on my motorcycle..... Why that stretch of road in not 130 is a question to ponder. I can only draw the revenue line on that one....Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazzman
What the (//) does is gives drivers the choice to take personal responsibility for their driving. If you want to travel at 110 or 90 or 100 or 140, it's your choice. I would say to any nanny state visitor to the Territory to ignore the (//) when you get here for at least a few hundred kilometers. Best to stick to the speed that they are used to and slowly increase until they find their comfort zone and just as importantly their cars comfort zone.
Contrary to popular myth, animal strikes up here are rare and almost always at night. Forward visibility is huge.
This is what is happening up here as we speak....
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...psc8910491.jpg
Take notice of the forward visibility!!!
Other states should take notice..... As was said earlier if so much of our hard earned $$ was not squandered by years of totally incompetent guvments we might have more roads like this....
Coldcomfort you are spot on. Speedkills was a flawed campaigned designed to scare the sheep. Speed is not the problem, idiots taking unnecessary risks are a bigger issue. I m constantly pulling up when clowns in front of me overtake on double lines around bends and corners!!!
I too agree on the idiot side of things the idiots I encountered had no consideration for themselves or others .
As for the Hume got me stuffed too :(
A bit of tongue in check fun what happened to the camooweal rd bloody goat track and the Vic hyw with it's big dips lmao
Cheers Gaz
Just thought I would add a thought to this conversation,
In the early 70's they built the start of the Sydney to Newcastle Expressway, the speed limit was 110kph, the latest model cars around at that stage were HQ holdens and XA falcons just to name two,
Neither of these cars or any others had ABS Brakes, Air Bags and seat belts were not compulsory.
Now we have all these great safety innovations and more in even the cheapest cars and the speed limit is still 110kph. And another point you can do 110kph on Dual Carriageway roads and yet you can do 100 - 110kph legally on some goat track in the middle of no where.
Where is the sense in that?
SPEED DOESN'T KILL IT"S THE SUDDEN STOP AT THE END!!!!.
Mark
SPEED DOESN'T KILL IT"S THE SUDDEN STOP AT THE END!!!!.
Mark[/QUOTE]
LMAO I been saying that for decades
LMAO I been saying that for decades[/QUOTE]Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazzman
Just like jumping off a building :)
I have also given that lots of thought. The only reason I can come up with is that the guvs can keep taking credit for air bags, ABS, DSC, crumple zones, radial tyres, improved suspension, and then tell us that it's their zero tolerance policy on speed with their money camera's that's lowering the road toll..... I really do wonder how this countries politicians are able to live with themselves. It guess is bares out the physiologists theories that the biggest psychopaths in society are attracted to jobs that they believe elevate them above all others....Quote:
Originally Posted by MC97GQ