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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Speed limit is enforced by road design, not by signs

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You’re suggesting they add even more potholes to motorways?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Context is 20 mph steets, making them more complicated and narrower forces drivers to slow down to not hit anything. Straight and wide streets allow drivers to speed as they feel comfortable.

Motorways on the other hand encourage to speed with wide lines, long view distance, long turn radiuses, hard shoulder and long paint stips

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A center line with floppy cone-pole things, barriers on the side (such as planters)(bonus it keeps pedestrians and cyclists safer and beautifies the area)

Etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

More round a bouts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

it's enforced by road design, and in some cases our desire to not murder children with our cars. call me autistic (I am) but I follow speed limits in residential areas even if the road is designed like a formula 1 track

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think its by fines actually.... Just got a $609 USD speeding fine... I speed less since then

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Intuitive system suggesting correct behaviour is more effective than system encouraging to break law and them punishing for it severely

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, that is a lot of money (for me and presumably you), but without proportional (to assets) fining it makes laws pay per use. In otherwords, money is not a good judge of character; people can have disposable income and ignore the same fine that changed your mind about speeding. And as another commentor said, preventing is better than punishment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And doing both would be even more effective.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Did you read my comment? Fines (unless proportional to personal assets) will not be effective against rich folk (who can afford large obnoxious dangerous cars), effectively creating a pay to use law.