Australia is preparing to sign an international road safety declaration in Sweden that endorses a 30km/h limit on suburban roads in response to "traffic injuries, air quality and climate change".

With the idiocy of global warming scam growing by the minute, yet another attack on our life style. Anyone who thinks this is likely to be the last restriction on our use of cars is pretty dumb. It won't be just electric cars, but soon we will be reduced to golf buggies or even less for private mobility.

The Greens, & increasingly the left, [just look at the Democrats GND], want us back on the feudal manor, restricted to a few kilometers of our birth place, & easier to control.

Hasbeen, given that you are a pretend engineer I'm sure you must find a lot of things like this extremely confusing.

What Has been said is correct according to The Australian of 21 Dec 1919.

"Australia is preparing to sign an international road safety declaration in Sweden that endorses a 30km/h limit on suburban roads in response to “traffic injuries, air quality and climate change”.

Nationals leader Michael McCormack is scheduled to attend the Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety on February 19, where he will join other transport and infrastructure ministers in ratifying the Stockholm Declaration, which will be referred to the UN.

A draft obtained by The Weekend Australian includes a preamble recommending integration of road safety with UN Sustainable Development Goals, including climate action, gender equality and reduced inequalities targets.

The summit is expected to endorse speeding up the “shift toward cleaner, safer and more affordable modes of transport, incorporating higher levels of physical activity such as walking, cycling and using public transit”.

Clause seven of the draft declaration suggests mandating lower speeds on urban roads, which would have a significant impact on Australian residential limits, currently 50km/h.

It resolves to strengthen “law enforcement to ensure zero speeding and mandate a maximum road travel speed limit of 30km/h … in residential areas and urban neighbourhoods within cities as efforts to reduce speed will have an impact on both road traffic injuries, air quality and climate change”.

Never heard such a load ever.

We currently have suburban streets with a 50 limit , where there are no houses and no reason for the limit not to be 100.

Apparently a couple of whacky councils in the People's Socialist Republic of Victoria have already decided to try it. Deputy PM McCormack is in it up to his neck, but he also has his own rogue opinions on further-action-on-climate-change. The real PM says that he isn't interested do things people overseas want. So, it's hard to see a 30kph speed limit swanning through without a hiccup.

However, with mass immigration and lack of infrastructure, it will soon be impossible to move around our cities by car at all, let alone at 30. There should be an opportunity for a lot more speeding fines at the lower limit before we become totally gridlocked. It's all about money.

It is already happening with the clowns called planners.

In my district we have had a few multi million road upgrades. On Beenleigh Beaudesert road, 25 years ago a narrow goat track with crumbling edges the speed limit was 100 Km/H. After much improvement including widening & resurfacing, it was suddenly reduced to 80 KM/H.

Mow multi millions on widening, smoothing curves & again resurfacing much has been reduced to 70 KM/H.

Two other areas were similarly greatly improved, then had the speed limit dropped another 10KM/H. For hundreds of millions all we got was a few kilometers of bike lane, where we never see a bike.

Compared to us our grand kids are going to have a miserable sardine like life, if our kids don't start fighting back very soon.

As long as the Bogan component of this society has a free reign, the only effective way to control stupidity on the roads is by enforcing speed limits.
Only a few days ago my car side window was shattered by stones flung from some idiot's wheelies on a gravel carpark.
I'm sure he wouldn't have been so stupid if he'd have had reasonable mentality teachers !
Or, had served in a National Service !