South Africa is looking to introduce new speed limits

[SAguy]

The Department of Transport and the Road Traffic Management Corporation are reviewing South Africa’s current speed limits.


Speaking to the Weekend Argus, Department of Transport spokesperson Ayanda Allie-Paine said the proposal could see the baseline top speeds across the country’s roads reduced by 20km/h.


This would effectively drop the speed limit on the country’s highways from 120km/h to 100km/h, while the top speeds on main roads would drop from 100km/h to 80km/h.


Speeds in residential areas would decrease from 60km/h to 40km/h.

More at https://businesstech.co.za/news/mot...ica-is-looking-to-introduce-new-speed-limits/

 

[Matt91]

Another money making strategy proudly brought you to by the cANCer

 

[Death_By_Ebola]

Yeah this only applies to non-taxi drivers

 

[NeonNinja]

Mybb posted the news/thread 2 days back.

 

[surface]

my car doesn't shake at 100 so sounds good to me.

 

[thestaggy]

Road safety my arse.

How about visible policing to curb reckless driving?

 

[HBee]

Is this to help congest the infrastructure for other nefarious plans ?

 

[Flanders]

More unenforced, abused laws. And while we're at it, lets redo every traffic sign in the country since we're doing so stunningly well. I want that contract. Great plan.

 

[dlk001]

Revenue generation scheme

 

[SAguy]

How about visible policing to curb reckless driving?

Don't be silly, that would require traffic police to actually do some work.
Why do that when speed cameras can generate revenue for them.

 

[S.Claus]

How about you remove the unroadworthy cars first and while you're at it solve in-house corruption before you try and tamper with perfectly fine laws.

 

[flippakitten]

Not really sure what the aim of this is because the issue isn't how fast people are driving, it's HOW they are driving.
If you've ever driven the N2 between Cape Town and Wilderness during a school holiday season you'll know that it's people dirving like absolute imbecilles that cause the accidents.

 

[Deleted member]

Not really sure what the aim of this is because the issue isn't how fast people are driving, it's HOW they are driving.
If you've ever driven the N2 between Cape Town and Wilderness during a school holiday season you'll know that it's people dirving like absolute imbecilles that cause the accidents.

Don't you mean from George up until Plett..............it's absolute chaos

 

[daveza]

40km/h in a previously 60km/h zone - nah.

I would literally lose my composure.

 

[ForceFate]

Only a matter of time before they start charging for turning the ignition on. If they were serious about road safety, they'd be trying to curb moving violations. These are hardly punished nowadays.

 

[Budza]

Ayanda just wants to make herself relevant and get her name in the news.

 

[surface]

Ayanda just wants to make herself relevant and get her name in the news.

Do you know that she is a spokesperson?

 

[surface]

40km/h in a previously 60km/h zone - nah.

What are you going to do if they implement? Collect fines and not pay?

 

[Hamster]

Not really sure what the aim of this is because the issue isn't how fast people are driving, it's HOW they are driving.
If you've ever driven the N2 between Cape Town and Wilderness during a school holiday season you'll know that it's people dirving like absolute imbecilles that cause the accidents.

That is bad, but it is not Cedar Ave during the week bad.

 

[Hamster]

I say raise the speed limit on certain sections of the highway (the long stretches between towns) to 140km/h and get people off the roads faster. Increased fuel usage, increased income for government. Win win.