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Originally Posted by Pittenger5  Honestly, I dont know what country youre living in. Look at 93, it drops to 55 for a while without changing lanes. 95 into New Hampshire stays the same lanes and drops to 55. Where I live, on the Fells in 2 different spots it stays 2 lanes each way, and fluctuates between 25 and 35. Basically the same amount of residential road. The JWay does about the same thing and everyone ignores them. So I dont agree with you on that regard. |
Hm- I probably didnt pose that very well. Example - there are Motorways, A-roads, B-roads. As long as you know what class of road you are on, you know the speed limit of the road itself. I don't really see a correlation here yet - once I get off the highways, limits seem to be basically pretty random.
Was on 119 over the weekend - 40, 45, 50, you name it, it has it. It's more of a concern when I switch from road A to road B - often I've got no idea what the limit of road B is until I see a given sign - with a classification based system, as long as I know the road type (listed at all intersections) I know the maximum limit. Of course - I may have entered in a lower limit section, but I've got a baseline at the very least.
As for the rotary thing, I can only go on my own experience of a decade of driving in a country where they're the norm, with 4-way-stops pretty rare. As long as people have the wits to learn how/be taught how to navigate them, I'd take a rotary over a 4 way stop sign every day.
Then again - that probably wouldn't be easy to retrofit into the US driving system without significant changes into the way people take their tests and qualify for a car licence in the first place.