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 Post subject: Limits too low
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2017 23:34 
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Comes from another site ,but from a USA ARTICLE. mAKES THOUGHTFUL READING.
https://priceonomics.com/is-every-speed-limit-too-low/

When Lieutenant Gary Megge of the Michigan State Police attends a meeting, he sometimes asks, “How many of you broke the speed limit on your way here?”

Hearing his question, you might assume that Lt. Megge is a particularly zealous police officer. The type of person who walks half a city block to avoid jaywalking on an empty street. The model citizen who defers almost obnoxiously to the letter of the law. But that is not the point of Lt. Megge’s question at all.

“We all speed, yet months and months usually pass between us seeing a crash,” Lt. Megge tells us when we call to discuss speed limits. “That tells me that most of us are adequate, safe, reasonable drivers. Speeding and traffic safety have a small correlation.”

Over the past 12 years, Lt. Megge has increased the speed limit on nearly 400 of Michigan’s roadways. Each time, he or one of his officers hears from community groups who complain that people already drive too fast. But as Megge and his colleagues explain, their intent is not to reduce congestion, bow to the reality that everyone drives too fast, or even strike a balance between safety concerns and drivers’ desire to arrive at their destinations faster. Quite the opposite, Lt. Megge advocates for raising speed limits because he believes it makes roads safer.

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 Post subject: Re: Limits too low
PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 23:34 
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It would be good to know (& I might consider that he does) have evidence like we do to back this up. Everything from the 85th %ile, to the fact that when you change a limit, people rarely change their speed by more than 1mph!

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