Originally Posted by
ranald
When a new highway near us (M1) was under construction there were so many changes (about 15) in a 5 kl stretch it was hard to focus on road users behaviour because of so many changes to speed limit.
I once told a retired cop (Snr sgt i think) friend of my friend, when sharing a beer, of my disbelief of an "end speed limit" (i.e.from 60 to 100 kph zone) within 1 k of a T where 3 young ones died ploughing into a very grassy embankment & killing all 3 instantly. No one had checked out why the car was doing about 105kph when it hit the wall of earth some years before. I had been using the back road for about a year to avoid traffic on the proper main road. In about a month after that discussion the end speed limit was removed and replaced with an *80 sign then approaching the T was a 60 then a Giant T sign with large arrows pointing each way showing where the road went.
we have many poor signage happenings here but one really needs to know someone with clout to get it changed. I was lucky by a chance meeting & I hope it saved some silly accidents.