"Shock and awe" all over again..

[d_jedi]

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/261595
Some pretty harsh penalties there..
I like it!

[woodstock827]

And there is no right of appeal in the case of a suspension or impoundment, police say.

Am I suppose to trust that no police is ever gonna abuse their power?
Man I hate politicians.

[Tijuana]

Whats wrong with that? 50 over on a highway maybe its kinda dumb, but 50 over in any other zone your just askn for it

[d1sc0veryy]

I am happy about this.
I hate dumb kids speeding like crazy

[Spray]

Works for me, so long as the dumbasses going 50 under get the same treatment.

[65505201]

Am I suppose to trust that no police is ever gonna abuse their power?
Man I hate politicians.

I wonder how many people going 140 will get "clocked" at 152. O well, I guess I'm glad I no longer have to drive the 407. I would totally fall asleep driving at "safe" speeds.

Hopefully some lawyer will find a pay to punish the cops and the government when they're unable to prove the charge in court.

[kuqdew]

got what they deserve

[Ziggy007]

I wonder how many people going 140 will get "clocked" at 152. O well, I guess I'm glad I no longer have to drive the 407. I would totally fall asleep driving at "safe" speeds.

Hopefully some lawyer will find a pay to punish the cops and the government when they're unable to prove the charge in court.

If you are going 140 you are still a bonehead. God I can only imagine the jerks out on the road who will try and argue they were only doing 145 and not 150.

Look I can understand sometimes going 10 km over the limit to go with traffic, even 120 if you are keeping pace, but I have never seen the flow of the road going more than that ever, except for the 401 heading to Montreal, around the Kingston area.

And at first I though the no appeal system was dumb, but then I thought about how with our joke penal system everyone that appealed would probably get a full pardon from any kind of punishment so I like it.

[Sohjonn]

i don't know if this is related, but wasn't there a poll here re: speed limiters in cars and many ppl opposed to it. if you opposed the car speed limiter idea, why would you support this?

also if i'm going 160km/h (which i won't of course) maybe 158.7km/h, and a cop were to chase me, knowing that i would be fined $2000 min, have my car impounded and license suspended, why should i stop?

[nalababe]

thank god...

Ok, I do drive 130 on the 401....but really 150! Sorry, I no longer have any sympathy...and around Kingston, 120-130 is more than sufficient....I have done it too many times...

[konfusion666]

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/261595
Some pretty harsh penalties there..
I like it!

Me too. Only because the sorry state of our driving education/licensing system has made such draconian laws necessary to reduce the amount of anarchy and chaos on many of our roads...

I predict that over the next few weeks we'll see a proliferation in the number of b!tchfests on RFD about people getting hit by this new law. Then we'll know who the real bastard drivers here are.

[felixdd]

Look I can understand sometimes going 10 km over the limit to go with traffic, even 120 if you are keeping pace, but I have never seen the flow of the road going more than that ever, except for the 401 heading to Montreal, around the Kingston area.

Or the stretch of 401 from London to Toronto. Any slower than 120 (literally) and cars will be passing you. Even if you're in the slow lane.

[Zeev20]

Or the stretch of 401 from London to Toronto. Any slower than 120 (literally) and cars will be passing you. Even if you're in the slow lane.

I got a speeding ticket come back from Toronto from my birthday dinner at 2am in the morning around Feb. The cop told me to follow the speed limit on my drive back to kitchener.

I kid you not I was going 100km in the center lane and TRUCKS were passing me on the left and right lanes! So by following the police officer instruction I was impeding traffic and not driving safe!

[corrupt123]

First of all, if you're not passing, get in the right ****ing lane.

Second of all, drive the flow of traffic. No cop is going to pull over a group of 20 cars, so you're in the clear. I've driven 110 beside a cop without issue... because that's flow.

I got a speeding ticket come back from Toronto from my birthday dinner at 2am in the morning around Feb. The cop told me to follow the speed limit on my drive back to kitchener.

I kid you not I was going 100km in the center lane and TRUCKS were passing me on the left and right lanes! So by following the police officer instruction I was impeding traffic and not driving safe!

[65505201]

Look I can understand sometimes going 10 km over the limit to go with traffic, even 120 if you are keeping pace, but I have never seen the flow of the road going more than that ever, except for the 401 heading to Montreal, around the Kingston area.

The flow of traffic on the 407 pretty much 140-150ish on the left lane any time of the day, unless some douchbag wants to make a statement. Anywhere ~120km outside of the GTA area is pretty much deserted after midnight, so there are insufficient number of cars to really dictate a flow of traffic.

While driving from Toronto -> Minneapolis, I think I did the entire Waterloo -> Sarnia stretch doing 140+, passing maybe 10 cars at most. Hell, even the trucks were going 120ish. Now are you telling me that driving anything over 110 on a deserted, smooth stretch of highway is unsafe? Please. I'm in greater danger of falling asleep on the wheel than losing control of my car.