SE QLD Speed limit

[flappist]

Well the nutcases have done it again. The stretch of the Bruce Highway (1) between Cooroy and Curra has been the site of several bad accidents in the last few years. Anyone who travels on this road can tell you why. It goes from a 110km/h 4 lane freeway to a single lane windy goat track with very few overtaking areas.

The nett result is that the constant stream of non country drivers tend to panic, drive slow and cause huge delays, except of course on the overtakng areas where they speed up because it is nice safe dual lane like they are used to preventing overtaking then of course they slow down again.

Almost all of the prangs involve head on or near miss head on followed by loss of control.

People who are fatigued and frustrated often do silly things to overtake which can lead to tragedy.

The correct solution for this problem? More overtaking areas and better roads or even extend the freeway like it was promised in the 70s, and again in the 80s and the 90s and again in 2002.

The problem? This is where the Traveston Dam is going and half of the existing road will be flooded if the unelected dropkick in charge has her way so if they fix the road and the dam is built it will be a waste.
Why not move the road like they have everywhere else? Well it is a Federal road (Highway 1) and Comrade Kev won't pay for that unless the Traveston Dam is built which after all the investigations, impact studies and academic crap may or may not be sometime in the late 21st or early 22nd century.

So what do they do? The textbook answer to everything. They lower the speed limit of this 50km stretch of heavily used highway so people will get more frustrated and fatigued and do more silly things. Bloody brilliant.

http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2008...mit-cut-90kmh/

I drive this road several times most weeks and it is always the same. They reckon a few seconds but due the the cascade effect it will increase the duration by 10-20 minutes.

Now if the road toll here drops they will jump for joy and then lower it everywhere, if not the will lower it even more everywhere.

Only 10 months to go. C'arn the Borg.......

/not that I am upset about it at all....