While we don't like the prospect of people dying on the roads, the govt response is to lower speed limits to safe and appropriate levels. (Safe for an 80 year old driver in an 80 year old car? Or even a 18 year old who thinks they are immortal?)
It would pay to keep an eye out for "consultation" on speed limit reductions on your favourite back roads.
Here's one way to influence public opinion. Vote here (https://www.aa.co.nz/membership/aa-dire ... nter-2019/) AA Directions is the magazine sent to AA members. It is the biggest motoring lobby in NZ, so the govt needs to keep it reasonably happy.
Slower highways?
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Re: Slower highways?
They've already started doing this in my area, I'm less annoyed because it's started to build up and the intersections there are pretty dodgy.Credible wrote:While we don't like the prospect of people dying on the roads, the govt response is to lower speed limits to safe and appropriate levels. (Safe for an 80 year old driver in an 80 year old car? Or even a 18 year old who thinks they are immortal?)
It would pay to keep an eye out for "consultation" on speed limit reductions on your favourite back roads.
Here's one way to influence public opinion. Vote here (https://www.aa.co.nz/membership/aa-dire ... nter-2019/) AA Directions is the magazine sent to AA members. It is the biggest motoring lobby in NZ, so the govt needs to keep it reasonably happy.