JimTom wrote:Daddybang wrote:What a f@#ken dumbarse idea!!!!
I can't speak for down south but up here it'd take a bloody week to get anywhere!!
Coming from NQ myself mate I know exactly what you mean.
In addition I have driven on some dirt roads that are better than sealed roads. Common sense should prevail, drive to the local conditions.
Rod_outbak wrote:Are you sure about the 110 in QLD?
My GPS tells me that the dirt road that I drive to town (B-Class road) is 100.
Pretty sure my last trip up the Torrens Ck road (mixture of bitumen and dirt), I only saw 110 after I turned onto the Flinders Highway, at Torrens Creek.
About the only place I've seen the GPS tell me the limit is 110, is on proper 2-lane highway.
JimTom wrote:Daddybang wrote:What a f@#ken dumbarse idea!!!!
I can't speak for down south but up here it'd take a bloody week to get anywhere!!
Coming from NQ myself mate I know exactly what you mean.
In addition I have driven on some dirt roads that are better than sealed roads. Common sense should prevail, drive to the local conditions.
Noisydad wrote:They can recommend until they’re blue in face. Given they don’t have enough resources to respond to burglaries or police main highways I can’t see how they can ever hope to police secondary country roads never mind the gravel ones.
Daddybang wrote:Gaznazdiak wrote:Daddybang wrote:What a f@#ken dumbarse idea!!!!
I can't speak for down south but up here it'd take a bloody week to get anywhere!!
Not to mention it's a lame-arse, cop out way of avoiding their responsibility to maintain, or god forbid, improve our primary transport system.
YepWombat wrote:Daddybang wrote:What a f@#ken dumbarse idea!!!!
I can't speak for down south but up here it'd take a bloody week to get anywhere!!
Its amazing how much distance you can do in a day up in the NT with their higher limits Here in Vic I got done doing 110 in a 100 on a sunny weekday mid morning no traffic on a good country road. Up there you can average 145 without getting busted
I think the NT has dropped back to 130 (I know they were trialing that speed awhile back) but back when they had the open speed limit it was great
The roads were some of the best in the country and the roadtoll (per capita) was consistently among the lowest in the country!. Crossing the border from qld the rod would go from a goat track to a highway that ya could quite comfortably sit on that 145-150 mark!!
wanneroo wrote:Dumb and stupid and retarded.
It will just put more drivers to sleep and the road toll will go up. The capabilities of cars today are much better than the 1970's in terms of safety and ability.
trekin wrote:wanneroo wrote:Dumb and stupid and retarded.
It will just put more drivers to sleep and the road toll will go up. The capabilities of cars today are much better than the 1970's in terms of safety and ability.
Unfortunatly and sadly, as the capabilities of today's cars increase in terms of safety and ability, the capabilities of most of those who opereate them with any sort of safely, or with any ability, decreases.
RoginaJack wrote::lol: The M1 around the Goldie has a 80 limit due to road works but if you can get to 40, boy you're really flying! Most times it a parking lot, road works aside.
trekin wrote:wanneroo wrote:Dumb and stupid and retarded.
It will just put more drivers to sleep and the road toll will go up. The capabilities of cars today are much better than the 1970's in terms of safety and ability.
Unfortunatly and sadly, as the capabilities of today's cars increase in terms of safety and ability, the capabilities of most of those who opereate them with any sort of safely, or with any ability, decreases.
RoginaJack wrote:Yep,Daddybang, things have changed - traffic is slower, we have "ramping" at most M1 off ramps now and the Labour Government's proposing to reduce the Highway speed from 110 to 80 to " speed up the traffic flow".
Same ol same O...