Saw this article in The Province newspaper....
Now, John Ferry is an ultra right wing redneck. I enjoy his articles most of the time. He made several very good points in the article that I have to agree with.
Nail bad drivers, don't reduce B.C. speed limits
The part that jumped out for me........
B.C.'s top speed limit is 110 km/h (as on the Coquihalla and Island highways), but on most provincial highways the highest legal speed is 100 km/h. And it's been 10 years since a study by Michigan traffic engineer Martin Parker found speed limits on hundreds of kilometres of B.C. roads appeared to be too low, and suggested the maximum speed be raised to 120 km/h.
Parker said crashes seemed to depend less on raw vehicle speed than on speed variations: "The likelihood of a crash occurring is significantly greater for motorists travelling at speed slower, and faster, than the mean speed of traffic."
Ian Tootill, of the Vancouver-based motoring group SENSE, told me Tuesday he's asked for a meeting with B.C.'s new transportation minister, Todd Stone, to discuss finally implementing Parker's recommendation to raise speed limits.
I support him. It isn't speed that's killing us. It's bad driving ... and rules of the road that are seriously out of touch with the way most motorists drive.
Don't hold your breathe ladies and gents................