• orclev@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Just seems too slow to be practical, it will take hours to drive anywhere. I drive just under 100 km every day and that already takes me an hour and a half. If the max speed limit was 30 km/h that would be at least 3 hours if not worse because I’m sure traffic would be significantly worse.

      At those speeds you might as well not even bother with a car. Hell there’s people around here that regularly exceed 30 km/h on bicycles.

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        11 months ago

        You drive 100km down residential streets every day? Main roads will not have this speed limit.

        At those speeds you might as well not even bother with a car.

        That’s kind of the point. Cars are horribly inefficient at moving people, terrible for the environment, and turn cities into dangerous and awful places to be.

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          11 months ago

          The article seemed to imply that there would only be 2 speed limits, 80% of roads would be 30 km/h while the remaining roads would be 50 km/h. If this only applies to residential roads and not major ones then that’s fine. Still seems slightly on the slow side but not horrendous.

          About 5 miles of my daily commute are on residential roads most of which are 25 to 30 mph speed limits. 20 miles are on roads with a 70 mph speed limit, and the remainder the speed limit is 45 mph. Most days it takes about 50 minutes one way for a total round trip time of about an hour and 40 minutes.