Originally Posted by
gregf83
An extra 10MPH of speed is far less dangerous than a distracted driver looking at their cellphone.
Clearly, the slower traffic is moving the safer for cyclists but I don't have any problem commuting on a hwy with an 80kph speed limit. No one goes 80kph but as long as they're paying attention and stay in their lane it doesn't bother me.
I'm far more upset when I see someone holding their cellphone while driving than a little extra speed.
Our area has a safety corridor, in that the speed limit was reduced by 10 mph after much campaigning by local citizens. Before the 10 mph reduction, there were numerous death annually, after the speed reduction was enacted, the traffic death numbers for the 15 years that the corridor has been in effect, equals that of the last year of the higher speed limit. As I posted earlier, little extra speed can be a real game changer.