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Originally Posted by Bill14564
??? The posted speed limit in that area is 45mph. How would lowering the speed limit make any difference if drivers are ignoring it now? If they are impatient at a posted 45mph are they going to be LESS impatient with a posted 40mph? If they are ignoring the posted speed limits and ignoring the red lights are they all of a sudden going to start obeying the signs if the speed limit is lowered?
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I agree with you that SIMPLY lowering the speed limit would NOT work and might make things worse. I have posted several times before that I believe that speeding and hazardous driving seem to have increased in the last 3 years. And it is also in the summer, not just winter. I think that there is some kind of attitude and psychological change happening. Not sure WHY this is happening, but something IS happening because I have read a lot of threads about hazardous and distracted driving on the Forum. Chronologically, it seems to have happened AFTER the Pandemic. There may or may NOT be a relationship? I read somewhere that during the Pandemic, those that continued to drive to or for work had the roads to themselves and were able to drive Fast and Furiously. Then, when the main part of the Pandemic was over, they kept driving crazy-like.