| DerbyDad03 2008-02-29, 5:25 pm |
| On Feb 29, 2:30=A0pm, "Percival P. Cassidy" <nob...@notmyISP.net> wrote:
> On 02/29/08 12:30 pm DerbyDad03 wrote:
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> The speed limit illustration demonstrates another result of
> decentralization and letting every little tin-pot community make its own
> rules. When I was growing up in UK there was only one speed limit: 30mph
> (with some clearly posted exceptions, such as within x feet/yards of a
> hospital entrance, where it might have been 20mph or less). So it was
> 30mph or unrestricted. If there was "a system of street lighting"
> (defined, ISTR, as a system of lights spaced not more than x feet/yards
> apart -- so a solitary street light miles from anywhere didn't count),
> the speed limit was 30mph unless otherwise indicated. If there was no
> such "system of street lighting," there was no speed limit, unless
> otherwise indicated -- and that indication had to be repeated by
> miniature speed-limit signs spaced not more than x feet/yards apart.
> None of this one speed limit sign hidden behind bushes at the township
> limit and a police officer lurking around the next bend with a radar
> gun. (Later they introduced a 40mph speed limit, some areas going from
> 30mph to 40mph and some going from no limit to 40mph. BTW, one survey
> showed that drivers often slowed down on going from a 30mph zone to a
> 40mph zone: a 30mph limit was too low to be taken seriously, but 40mph
> was reasonable.)
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> In New York I used to drive one stretch of road quite often. The road
> conditions and population density were about the same, but the speed
> limit varied from 40mph to 25mph to 35mph to 30mph, depending on the
> whim of the particular village's legislators. Ridiculous!
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> (I just remembered that in one or two places in the USA I have seen
> advance warning signs reading "New Speed Limit Ahead.")
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