You're right.

I said 44A when I was thinking 466A. The road numbering down here gives me trouble but I should have looked it up and not have added to the confusion.

Just like guns aren't the problem with killing people, the irresponsible owners are. With the hundreds of accidents I worked, probably 3/4 of them were caused by irresponsible drivers; the balance due to mechanical issues, animals on the road, extreme weather event.....

We were spared
 

When we first moved here , hubby and I were almost killed. My light turned green and a person ran a clearly red light at about 55 mph. I was driving and if I had gone, like most people do, when my light turned green we would have been hit broadside at that high speed. We probably would have been seriously injured at best. This is a dangerous intersection. Speed should be reduced, given that traffic is increasing in that area.

You are so right. Heading west on 44 numerous cars kept turning left in front of me after their green left turn arrow ended. All of 44 should have red arrows after the green arrow ends.

No, drivers should stop for red lights!!!!

When I learned to drive in the snow on black ice, we were taught to NEVER go until all other cars have stopped. Good rule wherever you live.

I agree Doc. The same scofflaws that run red lights will ignore the slower speed limits.


Just drive very defensively. The place is populated by idiots behind steering wheels. I want everyone reading this to be here and be totally intact at the end of the crowded season April first.

The road should be slower. When heading up north if I take the inland route the speed changes all the time and the police are more than happy to hand out tickets.

What is the downside? It might take an extra minute or 2 to get on the turnpike?

Sorry, can't agree on this one. The natural extrapolation of that philosophy is to set all speed limits at 5 mph., or better yet just walk (across the country to LA) --it's "safer". Getting T-boned by an idiot running a red light isn't going to have a much different result at 45 or 55.
The speed limits are set by the nature of the road (width, divided or not, number of intersections and lights, presence of shoulder, etc.), and amount of traffic. Most interstates slow down to 55 in urban areas.
Route 44 is perfectly fine at 55, it's the idiot drivers that make accidents. But it does not make sense to change speed limits for a few accidents caused by idiots on a road otherwise appropriate for the existing speed limit. As Judge Judy says, "you can't fix stupid"

Do you really think that's how the world works?

Lowering the speed limit to 45 is the beginning of a slippery slope that will eventually lead to a 5 mph speed limit all over the country.

When I taught one of my teacher observations said Tom occasionally whistled in class. This should stop because the students will start whistling and when they get in the halls everyone will also start whistling. The whole building will be whistling and we can't have that.
That person uses your kind of logic.

Not correct. Kinetic energy goes as the square of the velocity. The difference between 55 mph and 45 mph is 50% more kinetic energy at 55 mph. With collisions, it is all about velocity.

Exactly
 

Not to mention reaction time.

I think I'm pretty well versed in physics and mathematics, but thanks anyway. However, when it comes to personal injury from a MVA, at a certain point the extra kinetic energy doesn't matter. You're just as dead from a suicide vest as you are from a nuclear bomb.

One word, my friend-----hyperbole:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

To some degree, true
 

Speeds above 50 mph, kinetic energy plateaus. 45/55 it's significant.