Wat's a few k's over. There lies the problem, that attitude has to stop for the sake of the road toll. Policing figures have been released for vic over the xmas new year blitz. Thousands were caught for using mobiles, thousands were caught without seat belts, thousands were caught without registration, thousands were caught for drink driving. And you say revenue raising, i say it is keeping me safe.
Attitude, is the problem, not the police, and not revenue raising.

What's a few Ks over?

It means that I can top the next hill at,say, 4.5ltrs/100kms instead of at 12/100; that saves fuel and consequent pollution, both to be desired.

Hey 579, I totally agree – the speed limit should be the speed limit. There shouldn’t be any leeway on speed limits. None of this ‘few ks over’ business.

It’s about time that rule of law was tightened right up.

But if this is to happen, it needs to be done with a major publicity campaign to let everyone know exactly what the go is, well before the policing regime changes.

<< Why not just go about your business and obey road rules, 5 over is criminal >>

Because if you fastidiously obey the road rules, you get bullied, you get tailgated, you get safety margins reduced and risk factors increased. This is what happens when you drive differently to those with whom you are sharing the road.

The unfortunate thing is that the safest way to drive and the most lawful way are two different things… and the biggest discrepancy happens in temporary slower speed zones at roadworks!

So…. do you always strictly obey the road rules, 579? If you do, you’d be the only person on the planet!

Do you never ever ever exceed the speed limit, even by a tiny amount? Do you make sure that when you are going from an 80kmh zone into a 60kmh zone you always get your speed down to 60 by the time you pass the 60 sign? And conversely, when going from a 60kmh zone into an 80 zone (or 80 to 100 or whatever), that you don’t start speeding up at all until you get right to the 80 sign??

I bet you can’t honestly say that you never exceed the speed limit... and in reality you do it to some extent all the time, whenever you drive, like we all do.

Here there are 2 restriction signs about 2 chain apart as soon as you come to the first one you have 2 chain to slow down.
And never speed up before a derestriction sign.
Your tailgating bullies, are all in your head. Turn your rear-vision mirror to night view, that way those bullies can't see you looking in the mirror, They drop off. Never be antagonized by what is behind it's what is in front that you should be concerned about.
It's easy, like anything a habit is a habit. And i have never had a speeding ticket ever. One parking fine, yes.

579,
Never having had a speeding ticket doesn't mean that you have never gone over the limit, I used to drive regularly at 100mph when the prima facie limit was 50 mph (80/160 approx).
I was once passed by a police car when I was doing 90 mph but they were in a hurry to meet the train as the driver's wife was on it.

The greatest deterrent to speeding is police patrol cars driving on the highways at a steady 100 kph but then no one would speed and the Government would be out of pocket.
It would not be good for the economy of the State, less crashes means less towing, less smash repairs, less hospital space used etc.

<< Shortening the speed limit may have been deliberately left there for safety reasons. Just a thought. >>

Hi Foxy. Yes in some cases I could see some sort of reason, albeit very flimsy, for leaving an 80kmh zone in place after roadworks had been completed. But most of the time the road in these ‘temporary’ 80 zones is just exactly the same as for the adjacent 100 zones.

I’ve got enough experience after driving around in every state and territory in the last decade, to be able to tell when a slower speed limit is appropriate or not…. and a great deal of the time it just isn’t. It often is so blatantly inappropriate that you really do have to wonder what is really going on here.

There seems to only be two possibilities:

Incredible sloppiness and irresponsibility with the management of speed limit signage at roadworks, after roadworks have been completed and just in general across the board, or…

A deliberate attempt to peeve motorists off and make them much more inclined to exceed the stated limits, get booked and keep the revenue rolling in.

The excuse that these slower zones are kept in place for safety reasons just doesn’t hold up. In fact they work in just the opposite way – they create a conflict between those who observe the slower limits and those who say, bugger it and just bore on through. It results in more tailgating, risky overtaking and generally less safe conditions overall.