ricewagon94

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ABSOLUETLY!!!!!

vasilli

first of all, cbrige_accord,
you have a good case and i'm sure you'll get off. write down all details so you don't forget. do what others told you to do. you can totally use "your kind" as leverage, whatever he meant. even if it's not what he meant, he's an officer of the law and he should watch his language. he didn't. use it.

secondly, moosexing,
not that this is very important in this case, but you're so wrong. when <whoever it was> said that a cop doing drug busts is doing more work then a cop sitting w/ a radar, he was right. He wasn't talking about going to a park and catching kids smoking weed, foo. He's talking about big drug ops, where there are container of thousands of kilos of E and coke arriving daily. In this case it's much more serious then ppl messing themselves up. "Those" ppl will mess up a small army for this kind of money. I'm sure they have the means.

Do you wanna create a perfect enviroment for senior driving? If this ever happens forget about going on 400/401 ever again. It will be a parking lot 24/7. If you wanna reduce the congestion, you need to increase the speed limit. This will minimise the time of each car on the road, thus minimising congestion.

Moosexing

Thank you for your point of view, but I still disagree

Here are problems that drastically affect traffic flow:

1) HUGE FOLLOWING TOO CLOSE PROBLEM
2) Not enough time (ie people not leaving enough time to get to their destination in time, thus have to drive excessively fast to get there)

This creates:
- collisions (as drivers unable to stop in time for the vehicle in front)
- rubber necking (as drivers "rubberneck" to get view of the crash, they cause another one themselves
- unable to properly merge as driver's following too close, thus traffic is slowed, causing further following too close and irate driver's (as they are now late for wherever they are going) cutting into spots smaller than a vehicle itself

So back to original food for thought:

If drivers left at a earlier time (even 15 min) drove at or near the speed limit and left lots of space between themselves and another vehicle this would prevent congestion. Merging vehicle coming on at the speed limit would not slow down the express lanes, they would have ample room to merge, without "cutting someone off", with the increased space, if there happened to be a vehicle failure and slow, others would have time to react and not cause a collision

OR....here's a combined thought

have the speed limit increased by lane and enforced strictly as well as following too close, this might also prevent the zig-zagging of the lane changer

ie (lanes numbered by left to right)
Lane
1 140km/hr
2 120km/hr
3 100km/hr
4 80km/hr-100km/hr

OR approach all automakers and have a sensor installed in all cars front bumper area, if you are withing "X" number of feet at "Y" speed the vehicle will not allow you to go any faster and follow too close........just a goofy thought