Speed limit on section of Barton Highway to drop to 80 km/h

Mike Shuttleworth are you serious learn how to drive 100klms an hour is not fast in a country as big as Australia we should be able to do 120 ormore the cars these days. An easily do that speed safely. What they need to do is teach Canberra drivers how to drive .

Keith Cooper It’s not me, mate, there is never a shortage of clowns on the road

Keith Cooper NT has 130 when it doesn’t have (//). This means Australia is to only country with the highest motorway or divided road limit lower than the highest open road limit, all because the states and ACT use roads from revenue raising.
In most countries 130 km/h or 80 MPH is standard traffic speed be it by regulation, or the realisation that it is a safe and comfortable speed. A few have higher limits, or sections of none.

Mike Shuttleworth lowering the limit won’t stop that people have accidents at 50klms an hour should we drop the speed limit on highways to that . Can’t stop stupid at any speed

Yvonne Wearn No one is game to speed? You must be joking. The vast majority of drivers speed. Hardly anyone is content to stay within the speed limit.

Peter Ogilvie, try driving in QLD 🤣

Peter Ogilvie Increase it to 110km/h and everybody stays within the speed limit. Or build an autobahn and let everybody drives to the ability and reach their destination with no worries of crawling traffic. 🤣

Mas Ter Wind an autobahn needs multiple (>3) lanes in each direction. They don’t allow overtaking into oncoming traffic

Brian Ashcroft they did the same with Lanyon drive

It was 100 until they duplicated it

Glyn Williams this section won’t be part of the duplication because it will be bypassed eventually. This section is very close to Murrumbateman village.

Malcolm Campbell driver training evey 5 years when you renew your licence

Daniel Mr-Party Quinton need something.

Malcolm Campbell Yep, the older generation who do significantly less than the speed limit, cause congestion, and brag about their right to do so, makes the road dangerous. Let’s be honest about where the lack of driver ability is. We live in an age where we could be increasing speed limits due to increased vehicle safety, particularly on interstate roads, but we’ve got to stay slow to keep the revenue body happy, and old farts.

Luke Juratowitch who you calling an old fart. I’m 68. Been driving longer than you been alive. Got more speeding fines than you’ve had breakfasts. Im talking about the overall lack of ability of drivers today especially some of you younglings.

Malcolm Campbell just start taking away licenses for unsafe driving. Needs to be a department who monitors dash cam videos

Malcolm Campbell Most of the dangers stem from driver attitude rather than lack of ability … ie: impatience, selfishness, contempt for speed limits and contempt for drivers who obey the speed limits. It seems you cannot drive on the highway at the posted speed limit without being bullied, tailgated, and dangerously overtaken by the majority of cars that appear behind. A large proportion of today’s drivers are not psychologically fit to have a licence.

Peter Ogilvie so how do we fix it. ????

Malcolm Campbell You are a young fart. The old farts are in the 70s. You will get there soon 😅

Malcolm Campbell this is an explicit aim of the ‘Vision Zero/Safe Systems’ ideology successfully pushed by academics who hate private transport and don’t travel on country roads.

Doesn’t matter that zero deaths isn’t close to being achieved in, say, general aviation despite its massive regulatory burden.

Hung Ton pedal power strikes again

Malcolm Roxburgh wrong on this occasion, but right in general.

Malcolm Roxburgh excepting this is NSW. But the Govts do like their revenue