Recent content by chrison

Turbo, do you know that the German people and their government repeatedly fight off ANY attempts to impose numerical speed limits (by the Green movements and the like)? Does this come as a surprise to you? And that is the nation of 80 million people - not dumb people by ANY standards. What do...

Turbo, how can you compare a country with 100 km/h speed limit and UNLIMITED speed? I know you may not have been the one who began that, but this is a clear misrepresentation. Nobody claims that UNLIMITED speed is safe. If a car flying at 250km/h is passing another one at 130, we're talking 120...

. . Just wanted to say BIG THANKS for everyone for discussion. I believe we've touched on almost every aspect of speed limit increase in the 17 pages of this thread. I stress once again - those who believe we should stay at 100 km/h on 400-series roads are encouraged to vote accordingly at...

You are just not getting it, unfortunately. With all due respect, you are a bit out of touch with reality and what is currently happening on our roads. If you prefer to live in a bubble, that's perfectly fine. Do me one favour though if you truly believe what you say - please watch so your...

Sure, Turbo... so what? In all sincerity - do you really think about this when cruising our roads? I would trade our system for theirs in a heartbeat - heck, I'd pay $2k per year in extra road/drivers license "taxes" if I was allowed to drive on such roads (over here) with freedom of speed. I...

Bermuda, I don't think we are forcing anyone to justify anything. On the contrary - I don't even pretend to want to convince you - I am simply stating what I believe to be true in response to your arguments (which I would simply call a discussion) and what vast majority supports based on our...

Because all they would do is piss people off big time despite what the 'statisticians' in this thread might believe. Nobody cares about meaningless numbers presented in Turbo's post (neither Ontarians, Austrians, Texans, or Russians) - nobody analyzes them when merging onto a freeway (including...

I understand that completely, but the point is - those same people cannot change the law easily - even if they really wanted. Therefore, I want to get a feel for true public opinion in a poll. IF it shows that a vast majority of people WANTS a change, then enough pressure needs to be exerted on...

OK, thanks to threads like this, I was able to come up with some FAQs. Have at them (still a work in progress, so don't rip it too much). http://stop100.ca/faq.html

How fast do you drive on 400-series when free-flowing and not congested?

no comment....

This comment simply shows that you've never been on GTA 400-series highways before... Pretty thin...

thanks for digging up the chart , turbo. by the way, it doesn't say if these numbers are for freeways or all roads, eh?

Easy, Bud (have you seen my response above your post?).... I've seen countless numbers like that before, trust me.... That's precisely WHY I said what I said in my long letter on the site www.stop100.ca - such presented info (numbers) are completely useless as according to them we should ban...

Of course unlimited speed is dangerous. If a truck going at 100 is passed by a car doing 300km/h, you are asking for big trouble. That's 200km/h speed differential. But everything else you quote leads to only one conclusion - if "the slower the safer" then why most countries set the limits at...