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The best way to stop most road deaths
bravo669:
my sportraks lucky to get past 55 with the wind behind it going downhill! :dance:
V8MoneyPit:
I've always maintained, and said on here many times before, that speed does not kill. 'Speed' is not an object. The 'object', in this case a vehicle with it's driver, is what does the damage. Therefore, it is the misuse of that vehicle that is the trouble. That misuse might be using inappropriate speed for the circumstances. But speed in itself is not a problem.
If you are on a totally empty motorway with no junctions and clear visibility and good weather, what is wrong with 80mph? Or 100mph? On the other hand, if it is congested 70mph is often too much simply because of speed differentials between vehicles.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people drive at 30mph in a 30mph limit even when the circumstances mean it's more appropriate to be doing way less. My wife was with her brother when he visited and had to have a go at him for his driving. She asked him to slow down on the single track lanes around here. His answer was it wasn't a 30mph limit! he seemed to think he had a right to drive at the speed limit regardless of road conditions :shock:
bravo669:
completely agree V8moneypit. i live in deepest darkest Wiltshire and am surrounded by country single track lanes. proper ones with grass growing in the middle!!it never ceases to amaze me that when city slickers see the 60mph sign they start hammering it whatever the conditions or weather. and the fact that theres lots of blind bends ahead doesn't seem to deter them either! its a limit not a target in the words of the wife!(never thought i'd say that)!
lambert:
how to get products to consumers?
easy. reinstate the missing rail links such that every population center has a connection and then use these as distribution nodes. seem to think that system worked very well for rather a long time as little as 50 years ago.
would do wonders for congestion too as people could use it for traveling between places too. i know i would.
redhand:
--- Quote from: Bigbluemaverick on July 12, 2008, 11:49:28 ---how to get products to consumers?
easy. reinstate the missing rail links such that every population center has a connection and then use these as distribution nodes. seem to think that system worked very well for rather a long time as little as 50 years ago.
would do wonders for congestion too as people could use it for traveling between places too. i know i would.
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Invest money in a cheap sustainable reasonbly environmentaly friendly transport system. Are you MAD??? What government in it's right mind would do that?
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