Let’s talk about the speed limit

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Jacques Duval

Tuesday, 26 September 2017, 10:50

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Tuesday, 26 September 2017, 10:50

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I’m not sure that riding at a snail’s pace as stipulated in the new speed limits in some roads of Montreal is the best way to improve the security in various areas of the urban course.

On the contrary. I take for example the maximum speed imposed by the city of Brossard in the sector schoolboy Boulevard de Rome, which is under high surveillance by the police of the place.

Driving ultra-slowly encouraged to focus his attention on something other than driving, if only to let his mind wander, outside of the task at hand. I often goes to this place, and I catch myself to do a bit of cleaning of which is lying on the passenger seat and elsewhere. Try to ride at 30 km/h just to get an idea of the slowness that it represents.

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Too fast

The opposite case exists where limits even more bass should be erected. Personally, I always have a holy fear when I see a car rolling at 50 km/h or more in streets lined with parked cars on each side. I still have the jitters of seeing a child running after his ball or other toy in perdition. This is an extreme hazard which would require a greater control of the speed.

This is without counting on the drivers who drive faster than the other without worrying about the speed limit. I don’t go back to see how the Quebec misbehaving, often in cars that are suicidal.

When will we come back to the mandatory inspections of the cars that show 80 000 kilometres or more? This is another question on which we shall have occasion to return.