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It's great tab! I can't believe you didn't know it was back on

I'll dig it out once I finish mowing tab and see if I can do a bit of a spreadsheet. The report is not redacted so I obviously can't share it as it has names and regos etc.

Oh I should also add that if you're upset about speed limits and revenue raising to contact your local MP!! Because right now the only people who are contacting them are the extremists of the other view, soccer mum and dad who lost their 17 year old to an idiot driver. Each year I would attend maybe 10 road safety forums. I am yet to see someone (including senators who publish videos on youtube) be passionate enough to bring the idea of safer roads through higher speed limits to a road safety forum in which they can raise their issues to road safety engineers like myself, director general of transport and the commissioner of the police.

Tab.. I always remember the first time I drove through Brisbane.. back in the days when you paid a lady at the pay station on the gateway. P Plater. Drove over the gateway in near cyclonic wind and torrential rain.. was scared sh*t less. Signs said 40!!! Hi wind!! Poor visibility!! Slow down. Wasn't brave enough to slow down as the group of cars I was near were travelling at 80.. To this day I am always amazed at the stupidity of people driving that day.. Australia's road network will suffer because everything is so f*ckin expensive in Australia! Traffic controllers cost $100 an hour.. Our road network needs a lot of love before we can start increasing the speeds in a big way. Also just FYI tab. Crash stats are recorded as: Exceed posted speed Not driving to conditions However largely.it does appear they group those when reporting because it's not too often that they can really prove the exceed posted speed criteria. I've got an 800 page crash report I analyzed for a job that kind of gives a pretty good idea of how often it's conditions dictating the unreasonable speed even though they may have not been speeding as such. That does prove that drivers mentality is to do the speed on the sign and you're safe! Makes it difficult to safely increase speeds thinking like that if not all drivers can do the higher end of the legal speed safely as it is.

Apple doesn't have to be sync'd plenty of other apps out there that let you drag and drop.. Apple or android are both good phones.. but apple just got stale for me.m the reality is I won't use a note edge to even 40% of its capability.. but I'll have fun playing with it and winning.pissing comps against apple fan boys.

Go the Samsung mate. It's such a different platform to the apple. Feels like you actually have a new phone. I went iPhone 4 to 5 to 5S and it wasn't anything exciting when you got a new phone.

Ran I'm not saying every speed limit is correct. And I agree that what you are saying sounds far too slow. Places like that should be considering timed lane control where different speed limits apply at different times of the day.

Note edge.. beats s5.. So to define. If you want a new phone feel and you currently have an iPhone get a Samsung cause an iPhone upgrade is the same sh*t different sizes phone.

I see where the skepticism comes from, but largely the 85th is greater than the posted speed. One study I did had a maximum vehicle speed of 228kmh in a 90 zone. Sent from my GT-N8010 using Tapatalk

Lets talk about around the world vs. Australia. Now I agree that more research can go into this. Australia has a very unique road network so 'what works in the USA' doesnt always work here. Im not saying it cant be considered in some areas but lets talk european road standards. A class euro roads (freeways) are not supposed to connect to class C or D roads (local roads). In Australia we f*cking join dirt roads at T intersections to 4 lane freeways. This could be changed.. but this is something that needs to change in standards now, but we won't see any real difference for 30-50 years. Our road network just got assessed in qld for a 'speed limit overhaul'. 50 links were identified. Of the 50 engineers onky saw fit to increase the speed of 2. 50 more sections are due to be assessed soon. Next video. This dude makes sense so far. He just showed a 6 lane road at 50kmh. If speeds don't match engineering I agree its incorrect. However if the road is a constrained 6 lane (reduced lane widths etc) its a different situation. I thunk alot of what he says makes sense. Road speeds need to match engineering but in Australia most (please note I said most) of our speed limits are at the limits of the engineering. I know quite a few where speed limits are reactive to high crash histories. Myself I do alot of crash analysis and these reactions that alter limits are pointless as the areas I have seen it happen accidents are fatigue related. One section springs to mind though where the speed limit waz reduced to 90 and the accident rate reduced by 40%. Could be argyed that it was just a better couple years since accident rates need a 10 year history to be accurate. I cant put exact details but I have been involved with a lot of speed limit increases in QLD amd the NT. These roads did not match the engineering for the proposed speeds but they were assumed it was okay as they had such low traffic volumes. Once yiu start talking roads with 10-50k vehicles a day, Australian roads largely can not safely accomodate higher limits. Sent from my GT-N8010 using Tapatalk

Okay...... watching while writing.. Lets get started.. First off I dont disagree with a lot of what he says. He raises alot of fair points especially his statement about tightly regulated and highlt policed environments.. I disagree with it strangling the system. However I do agree that a moments indiscretion can get you caught and fined. Letme clarify the strangling point. Most people are away how choked busy freeways are... would increasing the speed to 120kmh on a busy freeway improve congestion? f*ck no. Why? Because the exit ramps are goddamn 60kmh local streets quite often with traffic signals, roundabouts or a stop sign at the end of them. Those intersections queue back to the freeways/highway very fast. You're getting people to an accident hotspot faster. Speed limits take into account very large scale traffic models which allow you to model how an entire network operates when parameters are changed. Next.. Its not the 85th percentile rule. No rules. It is more of a coroners court defendable speed you can design a road to. Ill try not to use name calling but he is very uneducated in what he is talking about here. 85th centile speeds are measured with a posted limit in place. Say the road is 80kmh we do an operating speedassessment where we measure what speed every vehicle is doing and determine what the 85th of that is. please note that the 85th is usually measured at a single point (straight) of a predetermined sectionnof road. Then we do the operating speed model where you use tge 85th and you calculate based on all the horizontal curves in the road and their superelevation (crossfall) whether vehicles are overdriving or underdriving horizontal curves based on the grip coefficients needed to safely steer around the bend. Now standards change and alot of roads are goat tracks built in the early 1900's that have just continuously gotten upgraded so some very poor geometry has been built into our roads. The next thing the 85th is used for is to calculate how far in advance of the vehicle a driver should be able to see an object 200mm higher than the road surface and stop completely (lane locked) or safely manoeuvre around it. This is the criteria that gets expensive. Howver we are bound by standard to use rates of decel that havent been revised since 1995. But research has recently been done that suggests modern drivers have worse perception/reaction than drivers back in the 80's so the distances level out. If you need to cut down a natural rise so drivers can see over it.. you cost mkre money. The deeper you cut the more likely you are to hit rock.. that sh*t is expensive to remove.. 85th speed is purely a design criteria and roads are designed so that people can travel the 85th safely. If you increase the speed ljmit to the 85th we need to design for the 95th and spend more money because people will always think they can go faster. End post 1.. only 2 mins into the first video Sent from my GT-N8010 using Tapatalk

No worries dude.. I do like arguing with you though.. it's good fun.. 1

Speed limit should not cater for the 85th percentile. Why? Because roads are designed for the 85th. Read any of the Australian road guides. Either 85th percentile or posted speed +10kmh .. sh*t eh? What's the flow on effect? It's not a few thousand dollars.. it's billions. If we posted roads for the 85th, we would design for the 95th. If we did that we would be designing roads for people driving stupid. If we do that we blow out costs. If we blow out costs you the taxpayer is gonna Crack the sh*ts that maintenance would be decreasing and it's bad enough already. Now that's not to say that some roads can't be higher speeds (western qld and NT come to mind) but if you wanted to build a road anywhere near or in Melbourne that allowed the 95th centile the flow on effects would be unfathomable to most.

Define sensible limits though.. what's sensible for you may not be sensible for me (even though I'm sure I'm a better driver :-P) I'll watch the videos later.. who knows I might agree.. but I've been involved in a lot of push from different state governments to increase limits.. but they always always always won't put their own nuts on the line.. they want someone like me to say it's safe to do something stupid..

Common sense? Speed limits? Touchy subject mate.. havent watched video.. will probably just make me angry..

f*ckin spastic morning.. but got a new project and now to relax this arvie

Haha awesome.. Team meeting in 25 minutes.. no desire to do any work in the lead up to that.

What's happening people?

Waking up early.. So came to work early.. kicked a few goals.. now feel like it's time to go home..

Got my new phone.. Yay!!

a WTF?

Tracking system saying 'onboard with driver for delivery' and the courier was leaving the building car park as I pulled in this morning.. God damnit!

You know what';s worse.. When they send you pictures of them snowboarding while you're working.. I almost sacked a bloke for that..

Yeah he definitely needs a bit of colour.. Edit: what game is this Steve?

No idea.. Anyway.. Wait and see.. Not too concerned.. I'll worry about everything when I get the new phone.. Fingers Crossed tomorrow.. Edit: and I got a black one Stripes..