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Originally Posted by SoulKiss
Why would they?
You drive to the conditions and the ability to see the road ahead.
You are trying to legislate for stupidity - which seems to be the way these days.
I suggest you send your CV to Wacky Jacqui and see if she has a job for you.
Speed limit signs before and after every "tricky" bit of road for the Hard of Thinking - no thanks.
Oh and some countries (NZ and the US spring to mind) DO routinely mark the recommended speed for deceptive corners (as well as putting up the kind of markers we do) but they are guides rather than limits.
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David, you're over the top. Have you taken something today that's made you get so obtuse?
The point Magnum makes is a good one. So often you come out of a village and theres a NSL sign, closely followed by a tight and difficult bend, often with a farm entrance, cattle poo across the raod, every type of hazard imaginable.
It's not drivers who don't think. In these circumstances it's the man from the Ministry - or more likely, the Man from the Council - who hasn't really thought about the ideal place for the NSL sign. Why place a NSL sign, which most drivers will react to by increasing speed - we all do - only to have to brake again only a very short distance later. It makes no sense. Now you'll say that I should be thinking ;'is this safe' - and of course, I do go through that thought process - but why doesn't Man from the Ministry/Council recognise the hazards, and extend the speed restriction? Just because the houses have stopped doesn't mean to say that the hazards assoociated with a village have stopped too.