Warning for travellers to QLD
Submitted: Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:32
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The Courier Mail revealed today that police will be dropping speed tolerance again, the third time since July. I know there have been some heated debates here in the past about the driving styles of some drivers. The police will not reveal their tolerance level but they have indicated that there has been an increase of 23% in drivers booked for speeding (no surprises here).
Please be aware if you are travelling to the sunshine state that it will pay to be more vigilant about your speed.
I suspect that these moves will slow traffic down overall and this will add time to your travels.
Kind regards
Reply By: The Bantam - Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 at 20:26
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 at 20:26
Reducing the tolerance but wont say what that tolerance now is or what it was.
Yep more of the usual government misinformation and fear mongering about road safety issues.
They as that there has been an increase of 23%...but do they actually say that the 23% is due to the reduction in tolerance or is it due to greater inforcement effort or simple a seasonal increase juts out right BS.
HMMM... twenty THREE percent......not 25 or 20.
Sorry these traffic police making media statements are worse than politicians.
cheers
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Reply By: Honky - Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 at 21:35
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 at 21:35
Fatigue is the main killer (but less profitable) which is probably due to "don't speed don't get fined brigade holding up the traffic.
Not everyone is retired and wants to go 20 to 30 ks under the speed limit.
I drive for a living and have noticed that a lot more people are going quite a lot under the speed limit and will not move over to let the big line of traffic behind them get passed.
I am not a trucky but feel very sorry for them as they penalised for being late for deliveries.
I set my cruise control to the speed limit based on my GPS and even that sometimes will go a couple of Ks over the speed limit mainly downhill and guess were the cops sit. Note that with cruise I can concentrate on safe driving, not looking at the speed all the time.
Going a couple of ks over the speed limit is not the killer on the open road ( not taking about in town limits). I cannot even think of an accident recently that involved going just over the speed limit.
The reason they may be reducing the margins in Qld is that people are only just speeding and the the Qld State governments income has dropped because the roads are safer.
Just think if the governments did not get income from speeders than they would have to increase other taxes or better still fined the slow drivers.
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Follow Up By: chisel - Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 at 00:15
Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 at 00:15
Maybe set your cruise to 2kph below the limit. It will not add anything significant to your travel time. (eg. adds 2 mins to a 2 hour journey, assuming cruise is used 100% of the time)
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