Alex Heney
Please explain how a driver dependant on speed limits for speed selection negotiates a tight bend using *only* the posted limit for speed selection.
You may use both sides of the paper.
I reiterate: Every driver who makes it round a tight bend on a NSL road has demonstrated some ability to set their speed independently of any posted speed limit.
Most will round the corner safely at a speed far lower than a send rally driver, knowing the road to be closed, might achieve in the same vehicle.
They will still have set their speed independently of any posted speed limit, to a safe level
How does a driver without the skill set their speed independently of any posted speed limit stay on the road?
Indeed. The vast majority of drivers on the vast majority of occasions choose a speed generously within their capabilities and those of their vehicle.
Such a speed might be vastly lower or higher than any posted limits.
Nope, I just got bored of typing "except where closely buttociated with specific hazards" months back. :)
Nope.
My view is that there should be no speed limits "except where closely buttociated with specific hazards".
Which mostly means no extra-urban speed limits and certainly no default, blanket National Speed Limit...
If you removed every limit indicated with the NSL sign and nearly all M-way limits while putting variable limits down to 10mph, or less, outside schools at in-out times you'd be close to my ideal.
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