Folks will likely love this, just heard on the radio news the UBCM (union of BC municipalities) will be debating the overall lowering of speed limits in the Province, at their annual meeting in September.
Now is the time to write your Mayor should you not agree with this.
Folks will likely love this, just heard on the radio news the UBCM (union of BC municipalities) will be debating the overall lowering of speed limits in the Province, at their annual meeting in September.
I wonder, for interests sake, how much it would actually cost the province to hire consultants to determine the most suitable lower speeds, and manufacture the thousands of new metal signs, and then pay for them all to be installed province-wide.
The outcome of the debate could well be the hiring of consultants.. :laughing
Time to hang your shingle out as ..... Highway speed consultant for instance.
Maybe that's the trick... i'll start my Speed Consulting firm, and then when I return to the board with my report, I will lower speed limits through the school zones (down to 25km/h) and while they're distracted with that I shall slip into the fine print that all other zones are going up. It's genius.
The police knows your history before he starts talking to you.
The licence plate and the registered owner is ran thru PRIME
Before the police officer gets out of his car.
That is for the safety of the officer
So don't lie, they know how many times you've had police interactions
They know your history before getting the license? The one time I got pulled over in my truck, officer was a COMPLETE ass to me. I was very civil and polite to him. He threatened to take my truck if I was "lying about my driver's history"... went to his car, I thought ran my license, came back... super polite to me. Offers his sympathy, but he HAS to give me a ticket. Got speeding ticket, but for less than what I should have if I remember correctly.
The thing that bugged me was how much his attitude changed from initial encounter to looking at my record. I don't see why I have to be treated like complete shit from the get go. Very rude from a public servant. That said, maybe he was having a rough day. I can understand that.
Be nice to cops. They are people as well. Hopefully, they will return the favour and be reasonable right back at you.
That will never happen frosty...! On another note, I had a neat 1 hr conversation with a ducati rider today from Oregon...He was a bike guy his whole life, and has ridden everywhere in north america. We shared some pull over stories, and I informed him of BC's impound laws for 28mph over...he was unaware, and told me that he had no Idea he was riding in a police state. He let me know, that he was heading straight back for the border, instead of another week exploring bc, as he likes to ride at whatever speed he is comfortable with, given traffic and road conditions, as I suspect, most of us here do. I felt good, for possible protecting his wallet, and informing a fellow rider of the dangers of sportbiking in BC.....!!!:eek
I just came back from riding in Oregon for the last 2 weeks. trust me, we don't want to have the same kind of drivers here that they have there. I experienced so many cars running stop signs and stop lights in front of me that I lost count....and nobody there signals a turn....specially if you are waiting at an intersection to pull out. I survived by being 100% paranoid of every single cager...and it worked. Based on my experience, I don't see how anybody there who goes rippin on a bike survives.
Let him maintain plausible deniability, he posts reasonable info.
My experience on S2S having the M/C pass me in my own lane in a corner and later in the summer pacing one at 180, those big BMW can fly right along to his next radar spot.
I am amused by all the bitching about the low speed limits, which we all know you can add 10 to without a worry(999 times out of 1000), bringing it up to the lower49 limits.
Should speed limits he higher in the summer (when driving conditions are optimal)? Yes they should be.
Not going to happen. You must understand the limits are for all road users, unless you are comfortable with every road user travelling at the speeds you think you should be allowed to do, you ought to stop bitching.
The big problem is not with the laws or speed limits, it is with enforcement.
Flow of traffic or aggressive driving is the main reason you will get pulled over in the states, speed limits have little to do with it.
I think the speeds set for corners are so-that at night, when it's raining the average person can safely drive around the corners and with the amount of wildlife that crosses the roads 80 km is still fast if you have a deer jumping in-front and black bears you don't see unless their looking at you, to well camoflaged.
Same road on a warm sunny summer day and it's agony to crawl along on beautifully engineered high performance machines that aren't even breathing as we coast along behind other road user's at the posted speed limit plus 15-20 km as we stay with traffic except where there is enforcement.
I would like to see the penalty's kick-in when people are driving/riding at their 20-40-60km above the flow of traffic, which the police allow on a normal day as everyone see's but nobody admit to on TV.
At present you can be seized for doing 20 km faster than the car doing 20 over so pull out to pass to get in clear air or clear road and your impounded which I feel is extremely ridiculous as your both breaking the speed laws so ticket everyone on the road.
On the bike your vulnerable to your own actions and the actions of others, speeding past a line of cars is stupid as you lose if anyone changed lanes and you crash, you blame them for not looking, they blame you for going to fast for them to judge your speed and time their move.
That policeman that attends the accident site has to go home to his wife and kids and lead his life. They see enough dead motorcyclist to have their own view of how safe speeding is, you on your bike having fun on the road is either exhilarating or dangerous depending on the perspective, sometimes both.
I think the speeds set for corners are so-that at night, when it's raining the average person can safely drive around the corners and with the amount of wildlife that crosses the roads 80 km is still fast if you have a deer jumping in-front and black bears you don't see unless their looking at you, to well camoflaged..
Ahhh.... that is one way of looking at it.
Personally, suggested corner speeds are there to warn you that either it is a slow corner or a not so slow corner.
Weather really doesn't play a part in it, that is unless, if your a commercial vehicle, your best plan on a icy road is adhere to what the sign say's.
i had a beligerant driver about a foot away from my back tire, tail gating me in traffic. was too worried about getting a speeding ticket so i didnt just gun away from him. flashing lights, etc etc.
went to burnaby rcmp, gave them plate, vehicle, driver description... was told nothing they can do.
yet if some knob calls in "i saw a motorcycle driver drink", they block the fucking highway and pull over 40+ bikes. or raise helicopters and half the patrol cars respond to "speeding motocycle".
They got what they deserved IMO...160+ on that highway?!?! You might as well hand over your keys at Horseshoe Bay...better yet, anywhere along the Upper Levels.
To allow for rubber-necking tourist drivers is my guess. 97 has tourists of course but not the same scenery distraction as the S2S.
They don't want tourists to be white knuckled on their drive to and from whistler as traffic rockets past them while they're not paying attention to the road!
It's only my theory but what other reason could it be?
Given that a) so many of you are speed demons, b) roads are public, and c) you usually want to get somewhere like those who are NOT in category a), why not have a toll road for lawless speeding?
Perhaps some waiver for riding said toll roads.
Roads are inherently a public space and vehicles are a private space. People use roads, and when others abuse the same space they are left feeling that there needs to be a reprimand to those people who have encroached on their private space through various maneuvers like speeding by for instance. Now if there was a toll road where no speed limit was the norm, and simply by using it you signed away liability to the government or road creators or some further justification that has not been covered. There would be certain rules, like use the road at your own risk, do not physically impede other vehicles by banging into them, share the road, etc. Sure you might have a few more deaths on the road, but it would only be those who are willing to be on said roads. And you'll have to have emergency crews exposed to idiots on the road, but emergency crews are at race tracks and there are rules that users need to follow in those situations as well.
Of course there is more to this, including the maintenance of such an infrastructure, the legality of dealing with injury and death by another driver/rider. All and more of which are questions which I am not in a position to answer.
you mean like europe? where you can pay tolls to go on motorways with high speed limits and scarce enforcement vs backroads and old highways with no tolls? yea. all for it. pay to speed. driver training would eliminate most of our issues here in north america. we have shit drivers. period.
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