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It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it (www.smh.com.au)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/australia@aussie.zone
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

just on minor, often poorly maintained, rural roads.

Sounds to me like the fix there is to better maintain rural roads, rather than lower the speed limit and let them further deteriorate?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    That's really expensive, and they're lightly used as most people are using the highways. It's hard to justify the expense

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Sure, I can see how expense is not equal (especially comparing infrastructure use say compared to an Asian country).. but a lot of the rural roads are how you access farms and farms are fairly important.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Sure, but access doesn't need to be at 100km/h. You only lose a few minutes at each end going from a rural road to a well maintained one at 80

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    A relatively small 180km drive will add an extra half an hour on the trip (about 25% longer). Not really what id classify as just a few minutes at each end. Sure it's only a few minutes when you're travelling 30km around metro.

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