Speeding Fine!!!!

[genetic]

Or nobody bothered to revise it.

Expert planners obviously don't use these roads every day.

Really? According to who? you?

There are stringent highway safety codes which engineers abide by.

A lot of Cape Towns roads were built decades back - some based on the American system too, way before any modern standards were set. That's why you get on-ramps on the fast lane - hence the speed limits.

The city is trying to re-engineer these intersections, but that will take decades.

The Google Maps link you provided is a clear example. On that stretch, the M5 turns onto the N1 on the right. Heavy trucks going to the harbour turn left onto Marine Drive shortly afterwards.

It's a dangerous piece of road. There are always accidents on that stretch. I can guarantee you it's not because the city just wants to make money.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Really? According to who? you?

There are stringent highway safety codes which engineers abide by.

A lot of Cape Towns roads were built decades back - some based on the American system too, way before any modern standards were set. That's why you get on-ramps on the fast lane - hence the speed limits.

The city is trying to re-engineer these intersections, but that will take decades.

The Google Maps link you provided is a clear example. On that stretch, the M5 turns onto the N1 on the right. Heavy trucks going to the harbour turn left onto Marine Drive shortly afterwards.

It's a dangerous piece of road. There are always accidents on that stretch. I can guarantee you it's not because the city just wants to make money.

Not that this relates to CPT, but its a case of an arbitrary speedlimit being applied.

For as long as I can remember, the speed limit when you got to the top of Fields Hill in Durban was always 100km/h... randomly quite awhile ago, they changed it to 60km/h...and its gone back to 100km/h now, because clearly nobody was paying the fines that they were trying to get.

 

[SauRoNZA]

It's a dangerous piece of road. There are always accidents on that stretch. I can guarantee you it's not because the city just wants to make money.

I haven't seen an accident on that stretch of road in recent memory that I can remember.

Even if true, what's to say the speed limit isn't directly responsible for these accidents and the "dangerous road" has nothing to do with it?

Take that pilot program in Australia as an example of how removing speed limits reduced number of accidents if you think I'm smoking my socks.

Because "this is the way we've always done it" doesn't automatically means it's the best way.

Trial and error, experiment. Improvement.

 

[Suspect99]

Not that this relates to CPT, but its a case of an arbitrary speedlimit being applied.

For as long as I can remember, the speed limit when you got to the top of Fields Hill in Durban was always 100km/h... randomly quite awhile ago, they changed it to 60km/h...and its gone back to 100km/h now, because clearly nobody was paying the fines that they were trying to get.

Wasn't that the road with the truck that killed 24 people? It might have something to do with it. Makes no sense to reduce the limit to 60 though

 

[ToxicBunny]

Wasn't that the road with the truck that killed 24 people? It might have something to do with it. Makes no sense to reduce the limit to 60 though

The change to 60km/h and back to 100km/h happened before that tragedy.

 

[Suspect99]

The change to 60km/h and back to 100km/h happened before that tragedy.

Ah OK. Makes no sense then

 

[genetic]

Wasn't that the road with the truck that killed 24 people? It might have something to do with it. Makes no sense to reduce the limit to 60 though

Yip, There are accidents there all the time. Either Sauronza is naive or never travels that road.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Yip, There are accidents there all the time. Either Sauronza is naive or never travels that road.

There are accidents on all roads at all times, but this speed change that i am refering to is not on the downward section which is the dangerous bit pretty much, but on the upward section once you reach the top of the hill...

 

[uncordless]

If I read this post it would seem that this person was driving below the mandatory (blue sign) speed limit and was subsequently fined. Just a thought.

 

[Quantum Theory]

If I read this post it would seem that this person was driving below the mandatory (blue sign) speed limit and was subsequently fined. Just a thought.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Yip, There are accidents there all the time. Either Sauronza is naive or never travels that road.

Uhm...he is talking about Durban. I'm talking about Cape Town so no not the same road and no I never travel on it.

The road I'm talking of I travel on every single day both incoming and outgoing.

 

[genetic]

Uhm...he is talking about Durban. I'm talking about Cape Town so no not the same road and no I never travel on it.

The road I'm talking of I travel on every single day both incoming and outgoing.

Uhm, I'm talking about Cape Town too. If you think Table Bay Blvd is accident free, then you need to think again.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Uhm, I'm talking about Cape Town too. If you think Table Bay Blvd is accident free, then you need to think again.

I didn't say it's accident free, but it's certainly no better or worse than any other piece of highway.

I can't think of any major drama that has happened on that piece of road in recent years. Not since that container truck dumped it's load on another car and that was more because it was a truck that was badly loaded that anything to do with speed.

 

[krycor]

It's a speed limit.. Clearly you from Gauteng where do as you want. The limit on that stretch has ALWAYS been 80km/h btw so good luck with that attitude. Highways where the limit is set to 80Km/h are not only due road conditions but also pedestrian traffic. It's been proven that hitting a pedestrian at 120km/h is an almost guaranteed fatality vs doing so at 80km/h.

Oh and btw they want to reduce the speed limit to 70km/h in the near future so good luck staying on the road in Cpt.