Do 40 km/h over speed limit in BC, car gets impounded.

[J-hop]

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you've clearly never driven any of the highways in BC.

i'll agree whole heartdly that 40 over in urban areas is excessive and should get that kind of treatment. but when your main highway has a speed limit that is well under the national average simply because you as a government are too lazy to redo speed limits, theres a problem.

this is also a RIDICULOUS attempt to try and cure a problem that doesn't exist. you show me the statistics that show SPEED as the #1 cause of an accident. Many times speed is a factor, but things like; driver distraction, intersections, and other variables are usually the primary concern when relating to accidents. The government LOVES to use SPEED and say its a factor. of course speed is a factor...you're in a moving vehicle. But excessive speed? i've yet to see the documentation that shows its the main problem. in fact, i've seen nothing but the opposite when it comes to traffic safety stats.
You want to clean up the roads, implement a driver licensing program that actually forces people to know how to drive before they are given their license. BC has got to be one of the worst provinces in Canada when it comes to handing out licenses to those that should not qualify. Tighten up the licensing, and you might have better drivers on the road to begin with.

Congrats BC. Another tax grab.

actually I have a cabin in BC and I drive the 93/95 all the time, 90km/hr isn't bad, deer are really bad on those highways, those highways are super nice to drive too and 90km/hr also seems to sit around the best fuel efficiency for my car so I make great mileage.

highway 1 should really be slower between here and golden with all the terrible drivers who don't understand the meaning of the double solid yellow line.

RONDAL, yes you make good points, BUT a sh*tty driver at 90km/hr will cause less damage in a crash than a sh*tty driver at 110km/hr....

[luunta]

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speed limits are set for a reason. local variables and environmental hazards are always a factor.

the speed limit in richmond should be 15 km/hr.

[jasonwermy]

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I drive back and fourth to BC every 3-4 months and I think that they should raise the speed limit. Yeah! They raised the speed limits(100 km/h) in some areas of highway 1, just before Golden and just before Sicamous. Those areas are mostly 2 lanes each way, other parts are not. Some parts of highway 1 should stay 90 due to sharp turns etc. I find raising the speed limits would have the traffic move more smoothly. Some of the hills in Rogers Pass can have semis doing 50 by the time they hit the top of the hill, doesn't that seem unsafe? I find even raising the speed limits on highway 1 just to 100 or even 110 km/h would make things so much better.

[RONDAL]

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speed limits are set for a reason. local variables and environmental hazards are always a factor.

the speed limit in richmond should be 15 km/hr.

i agree. but they were set in the 1970's.
roads have been upgraded and improved, and speed limits have remained the same.

[Geobmx4life]

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I go to the inlaws in Castlegar a few times a year so...I'm just gonna buy a better radar detector! LOL

[J-hop]

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i agree. but they were set in the 1970's.
roads have been upgraded and improved, and speed limits have remained the same.

you sure that YOU have driven BC roads, the 93 hasn't had much more than repaving since the 70s haha.

[RONDAL]

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i havent gone to castlegar recently. but my comments about low speed limits were more directed at highways such as the #1 and #5. Both of which are still well below national averages.

take the #5 road in richmond too for an example. its still a 50 zone in most sections, despite being twinned and divided. Its like driving on crowchild and having it be 50

[bart]

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in poland if you go over 50km/h the fine is $200, no matter if you were going 300 in a 100. speeding is speeding that's how it should be

there is no such thing as stunting or careless driving for going crazy fast here and i love it.

[J-hop]

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in poland if you go over 50km/h the fine is $200, no matter if you were going 300 in a 100. speeding is speeding that's how it should be

there is no such thing as stunting or careless driving for going crazy fast here and i love it.

that is an interesting concept, but then again if someone is speeding than they might as well do 300 in a 100 zone right?

speeding is a crime, if we were to treat all levels of crime the same than our world would be pretty effed up.

Would it make sense to you to give a drug dealer the same punishment as someone that just smokes weed on occasion? how about giving someone that beats a person to death the same punishment as a kid who gets in a scuff after school?

doesn't make a lot of sense now does it? Now I might agree with you if it was say a $5,000 fine which would deter people from doing any amount over the speed limit whatsoever , but $200 is pocket change and would be a slap on the wrist for someone doing 200 over the speed limit and a huge piss off for someone doing just 10 over.


What this all boils down to is the fact there are a lot of people out there who can't see beyond themselves, who would rather shave 5mins off of their commute to work or 20mins off of their trip to BC than worry about safety. now before someone gives me the unfounded rant about speed not being a large factor in collisions, go back to your highschool physics notes and look at the momentum and impulse sections and you can decide for yourself if you'd rather be hit by someone doing 90 or someone doing 110.

[Scottmc]

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I go to the inlaws in Castlegar a few times a year so...I'm just gonna buy a better radar detector! LOL

better get an STI driver cause its 'undectable' by police radar guns and radar detectors are illegal in BC and im pretty sure they get confiscated if your cought with one

[stefan]

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better get an STI driver cause its 'undectable' by police radar guns and radar detectors are illegal in BC and im pretty sure they get confiscated if your cought with one

i fired a text to an RCMP friend in Surrey a while back, and she says they are fair game. They just piss off cops.

[Russell]

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I almost got busted by an off duty officer who I blew by at well over the limit on a highway back home ..... Sorry too smart to fall for that. Just got a warning and they couldn't do anything else. I was very lucky that day.

And just to let it be known, the highway I was on was pretty empty except for a few cars here and there. No one was in risk of getting hurt because I wasn't driving that fast while texting or talking on the phone or weaving in and out of traffic. Two hands on the wheel and extremely focused. Sometimes now and then you need to let loose from time to time when that time is appropiate. Otherwise lifes not worth living if you can't live.

Sorry I don’t mean to pick on you or anything but I think that this highlights the problem… and let it be known that just like everyone else on this forum I have/do speed from time to time. My main concern is that you may have the ability to travel at those speeds and may very well be able to control your car but it’s the guy next/in front of you that does not see you or does not understand how fast you are going… it’s at this point that you become VERY dangerous to people around you and he becomes VERY dangerous to you. I think the conversation is different when someone is killed because of your decision to speed…

This is why places like race city speed way are necessary to give people the ability to have some fun with there car well limiting the dangers to themselves and the people around them.

The real question here is not if 40+ over the limit should be a major punishment but if BC is creating an unattainable standard at 90km/h. Andrew is right that most of us pull our hair out when we are doing 90 on Deerfoot let alone on an empty highway. BC should take a good look at national averages, road conditions etc before blanking the highways with a new rule... it will not solve the problem its only another cash grab.

And like I said I don’t mean to pick on you because we have all done things like that.

[bart]

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^ (144km/h)

[RONDAL]

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the other thing i hate about this law is it turns the cop at the side of the road into judge jury and executioner when it comes to confiscating private property.
i would see something like this happening in say nigeria, or another 3rd world dictatorship, but this is canada. its a law that basically circumvents the entire legal system we have in place. do not pass go, do not go to court to have a fair trial, just lose your $hit.

someone will fight it on consitutional grounds just like the ontario law that was just erased.

[bart]

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i was reading the comments in that story and someone said to not worry about people who might cause accidents, but people that actually do. fine them lots of money, that to me sounds way better than this stupid law.

so if you cause an accident, you lose your car for 7 days.