Signs posting the speed limit on a street, road or highway show the maximum allowable speed. A “limit” is the point beyond which something does not or may not extend or pass. But that’s not how we view or think of speed limits, is it? We get annoyed when we get stuck behind someone going under the limit. We mutter, “Hey bozo, the sign said 60, so why the heck are you only going 50?”, or words to that effect. On the highway it’s generally accepted that you can get away with going up to 10 kms per hour over the posted limit. By getting away with it I mean that the police won’t bother to give you a ticket. So most drivers on highway 11, for example, routinely go 120. There are some who do observe the 110 limit and that’s fine unless they’re doing it in the left-hand lane and won’t move over for reasons known only to them. And there are those who whiz by you like you’re standing still when you are doing 120 and you hope there’s a cop waiting just over the horizon. I see there’s a bit of a controversy about what the speed limit should be on the new Chief Mistawasis Bridge in Saskatoon when it opens this fall. It’s designed to be 70 but a group concerned about the Northeast Swale wants it set at 50. A motion to compromise at 60 was defeated in a tie vote at City Council so we have to wait until just before the bridge is set to open to see of it will be either 50 or 70. As with everything, you can’t please everybody, and no matter what Council decides, some people won’t be happy, reminding me why I don’t want to be a politician.
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