Speed Limits Optional?

Ok..so back from another driving trip… Up to Hanging Rock and Mt Macedon. (which will be a post later today).

For this post I have a highlighted video (speed up to double only) of one of my biggest annoyances on the road – the fact that the speed limit around roadworks is some what optional in Victoria. On the drive down City Link I notice that there are signs saying roadworks 60kph. Of course at this time I have to dive across from the fast lane to the slow lane so I am not a moving road block (to other vehicles which do not slow down).

I have the gps trace showing that I was doing 60pkh past the roadworks (and approx 101kph once I accelerated once the roadworks finished).. All the time the car is on cruise control as well! You will also notice that everyone goes flying past me in the 60 zone. In some cases flying is an understatement. 21 cars all up broke the law speeding past. Within a few minutes of getting past the roadworks I have over-taken 6 of the 21 people that went gone flying past me and I catch up with most of the rest of them within the next 5 min as well.

What annoys me is that these are the people that will complain about speed cameras and speed limits, yet here they all are BREAKING THE LAW. Of course if I exceeded the speed limit I would probably get nailed straight away, but that is my luck.

2 Responses to “Speed Limits Optional?”

  1. Vehicles do not slow down for roadworks in Melbourne. And the VICTORIAN POLICE always seem to let this golden opportunity slip past them. This happens all the time – infact probably every road works I have driven through since moving here 5 years ago. Large pot of ‘speed fine’ gold to be made – easy pickings. But no-one seem to notice. Dont know why anyone bothers putting up roadworks signs at all.
    Guess it must be a legal requirement.
    You would think that Workcare might care… or the unions… guess not enough people are sufficiently injured for anyone to notice vehicles dont slow down. Do we really need another event like the tunnel accident a year ago?

    ALSO Would be nice if the signs could be removed after the road works have finished… Wolf why dont you tell the nice folks about that time last year….

  2. you were going to slow thats why everybody passed you

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