There are those who wish to lower the speed limit to 100km/h. Yet the surviveability of a crash at 100 compared to 110 is negiligable. There were those who wanted school zones to be lowered to 40km/h. Yet most of these school are still built on or very near main roads. People accept that their is a minimal danger to flying, and also accept that someone else has control over thier lives. Yet people expect the road toll to be zero, even though driving is more dangerous.

Idiots one and all.

Let's look at it this way. In NSW the government collects around $1million/day from "speeding" fines. If they REALLY wanted to stop people speeding, they would make speeding a jailable offence, with vehicles crushed, rather than amounts which most people can afford to pay. They wouldn't, so it becomes just another tax, like a fee to be paid for the privledge of going a bit faster. We all do it!
The attitude of RTA is of a big brother who says they know best. Proof: As an engineer I met once with a civil engineer involved with road design. I quizzed him about why new roads didn't have a positive camber, on corners, to handle the higher speeds which modern cars were capable of. I pointed that some roads even had a negative camber on corners. His response (paraphrased) was "We don't do that because then people would want to drive faster and we don't want people to speed, do we?"

A fine should be a percentage of one's income. That would have a much more positive impact on peoples' attitude. I mean the bloke in a Merc Or BMW pays as much as the bloke in his battered old ute. That's an imbalance which affects the whole purpose of a fine. A fine should hurt everyone to the same degree..

To "individual": But those more affluent people who drive Mercs and BMWs are driving safer cars, which are designed to be driven at faster speeds, so they should be entitled to have a higher speed limit. They probably need to get where they're going a lot quicker too. Time is money, isn't it?

""We probably need to get where we're going a lot quicker too. Time is money, isn't it?""

Vee ALSO need to get to Brektesgarten in time vor tea mit Eva.

Any slow drivers in zee vay, und vee have vays of maching dem move over. Double Tailgate und high beam mach good sport for green P platers yah Voul

Pretty soon vee vill have und final solution. Zee poor und weak are a scourge on our great Labor Party und soon vee vill exterminate dem. Chris Bowen mach promise!

Zeich Heil!

Drive zee plonkers into zee vall!

Adolph Hitler
Springwood NSW

when more people than vote for any single political bandwagon smoke dope occasionally,it's time to recalibrate.

Rusty