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Death rates have not be steadily declining for 30 years thanks to lower speed limits. Safer cars, period.
Think about the last time you drove down a busy freeway. I bet the real problems were the people that were going much slower or much faster than the flow of traffic, regardless of the posted limit. Police need to get out from behind their radar guns and start enforcing laws against the truly dangerous drivers. The people that cause the most collisions are drunks, tailgaters, people that drive much slower than the flow, and those that drive way faster.
Yesterday my wife got a speeding ticket. She was driving 80km/h in a 60 zone, but you should see the road. It's a multi-lane road that is divided by concrete. It's next to a freeway and has little street level access. It's quiet, with little traffic. Huh? 60km/h? Where did that limit come from? Heck, most of our freeways here are set to 70km/h. That's 45mph for a FREEWAY!
Why? 300,000 speeding tickets in a city of 1 million. That's why. Money. Most cities our size in Canada write 40-50,000 tickets. Not Edmonton. We set those speed limits loooow, and then roll out a fleet of photo-radar vans and armies of cops to "make us safer" on the roads. BS. It's about money, and nothing but.
Have collision rates changed since this draconian enforcement began? Nope. Within a window of confidence, not a bit.
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