Speeding Fine!!!!

Segg said:
+1 It's more dangerous to be a slow moving vehicle that others have to dodge IMHO
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100% agreed. Leads to unnecessary aggravation on the roads as well.

More flow, less blockage better for everyone.
 
genetic said:
wtf dude? :wtf:

How on earth can you compare a speed limit to apartheid / slavery :erm:
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Simply drawing the parallel that just because someone made a rule doesn't mean that it necessarily makes sense and that you should adhere to it come hell or high water.

It's an example of rules meant to be broken, has nothing to do with speed limits.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Simply drawing the parallel that just because someone made a rule doesn't mean that it necessarily makes sense and that you should adhere to it come hell or high water.

It's an example of rules meant to be broken, has nothing to do with speed limits.
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Speed limit rules are there for a reason. Not everyone has the brain capacity to handle a car beyond an even mediocre speed limit to both you and I... hence catering for the lowest common denominator.
 
genetic said:
Speed limit rules are there for a reason. Not everyone has the brain capacity to handle a car beyond an even mediocre speed limit to both you and I... hence catering for the lowest common denominator.
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Yes in general I've got no problem with speed limits, but as per the example I made earlier there is a section of N1 just outside Cape Town that is a four lane highway like the rest of the N1 with concrete barriers and everything but is an 80 zone for some retarded reason.

If they made this a 120 zone like the rest of it we could all get home 20 minutes earlier.

There are countless examples like this I'm sure where old limits from days gone by are still in place on roads that have long since been overhauled.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Sometimes rules arent very sensible and need to be broken.

Or was Apartheid and slavery also rules that shouldn't have been broken?
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SauRoNZA said:
Simply drawing the parallel that just because someone made a rule doesn't mean that it necessarily makes sense and that you should adhere to it come hell or high water.

It's an example of rules meant to be broken, has nothing to do with speed limits.
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This is just going full retard. I have no inclination to reason with this type of mentality.
 
SauRoNZA said:
there is a section of N1 just outside Cape Town that is a four lane highway like the rest of the N1 with concrete barriers and everything but is an 80 zone for some retarded reason.
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Where on the N1 is this exactly?

Highway engineers don't just make up speed limits for some 'retarded' reason.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Yes in general I've got no problem with speed limits, but as per the example I made earlier there is a section of N1 just outside Cape Town that is a four lane highway like the rest of the N1 with concrete barriers and everything but is an 80 zone for some retarded reason.
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It's called revenue collection ;)
 
genetic said:
Where on the N1 is this exactly?

Highway engineers don't just make up speed limits for some 'retarded' reason.
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https://www.google.co.za/maps/@-33.9194835,18.465323,15z?hl=en

From about 7A to 3 on Table Bay Boulevard.

Pre World Cup the 80 zone did make sense, post World Cup after complete reconstruction it doesn't make sense at all. Bear in mind the Street View images are just about mid construction.

I'm sure I could find countless other examples of much the same thing. Outgoing it could sort of make sense approaching 7A which is a minor bend in the road but even then it's a push because there are many other places with similar bends also across three lanes which are 120's.

Incoming though it makes no sense at all and I think it's purely a case of not being re-evaluated and revised accordingly.

But this is just an easy example, I could find countless others I'm sure that are equally non-sensical.

Segg said:
It's called revenue collection ;)
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That is exactly what it is. They love to trap there because they know nobody bothers with the limit.
 
If this is a busy highway it might be to reduce traffic jams. The faster cars are travelling the easier you get traffic jams. In the UK on some highways they have electronic boards that reduce the speed limit as the highway gets busier to reduce the chance for a traffic jam. In PTA theybalso made a large part of the N1 a 100 zone, but 80 is a but slow.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Yes in general I've got no problem with speed limits, but as per the example I made earlier there is a section of N1 just outside Cape Town that is a four lane highway like the rest of the N1 with concrete barriers and everything but is an 80 zone for some retarded reason.

If they made this a 120 zone like the rest of it we could all get home 20 minutes earlier.

There are countless examples like this I'm sure where old limits from days gone by are still in place on roads that have long since been overhauled.
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The speed limits are based on many factors not just the size of the road.
It's about location, risk of accident, weather variability etc.
There are expert planners that have a good reason to set that limit.
Please respect the rules and save lives!
 
tRoN said:
The speed limits are based on many factors not just the size of the road.
It's about location, risk of accident, weather variability etc.
There are expert planners that have a good reason to set that limit.
Please respect the rules and save lives!
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Or nobody bothered to revise it.

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

Probably foreigners who came here for a quick cash in of engineering then buggered off post World Cup.

This whole there are areas of the M3 residential populated with only two lanes that have a higher speed limit.

It doesn't take an expert to figure out that this is just bureaucratic red tape bull**** and easy money making.

The fines probably pay for the stupidly expensive over engineered bridge nobody actually needed and was planned like utter ****.

Only in Cape Town do you go left to go right.
 
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