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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I could be wrong but it seems to me that many laws are enacted for the public purse rather than the public good.
Could it be that speeding is seen as a ready source of revenue presented to the public on the basis that it is the public that will benefit not the treasury.
alex
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Hi Alex,
A widely held assessment. I had a definite point of view once, far to the conservative end it was, but lately it seems the authorities are perhaps getting more authoritarian. Not sure. I'm still looking at all this, trying to figure out what is the ideal mix from these points of view
- we don't want people being maimed and killed (do we ?
)
- we do however want some degree of personal freedom and choice (
)
- I think we do want to protect the littlies (school zones etc)
- a lot of car advertising emphasises speed and power, and this is currently still permitted in all media I think (double standard
)
- it is very very expensive to build safe divided highways, $30-40M per km. We pay somehow
. Rail is about $7M per km if you have the corridor already.
- since some people will always speed whatever the limit and road conditions and wherever the location (agree?
) this can be seen as a source of revenue to be tapped. I do think so. Parking is also I think.
- Here is an admission, I've been snapped for speeding several times. I just paid up, because I dunnit
- the police and ambos are at the sharp end, and are unanimous, speed kills (someone) and if you don't speed ever, you won't ever be fined. This has to be true, right? Right? So the burning issue is the actual speed LIMIT, or the posting of it. Agree?
- the opposite point of view (not necessarily mine) is that all this carry on about revenue raising and bad speed limits is just spin and smoke on the part of those who want to speed wherever and whenever they wish
There are some, I know, I've watched them in the school zones.
For discussion, but keep it calm
