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Originally Posted by Logic
Our speed limits here are:
60km/h (37mph) in town. (urban)
120km/h (75mph) well outside towns. (highway)
Also 100 (62) and 80 (50) on the outskirts of towns.
So the chosen speeds are a bit strange to me.
Is South Africa that different to the rest of the world?
(South Africa might engender the wrong picture: Think half British, half German (engineer)  ) |
Here, it's 50 outside of motorways and 30 when you get anywhere you'd expect pedestrians in any numbers (town centers, transit hubs, near schools, etc).
National speed limit is 100 (with a handful of exceptions for 110), and you'll also find 80 on rural roads that are not motorways. Other limits exist but they're uncommon.
My speeds may seem pretty arbitrary, but when I'm not holding anyone up, I'm generally not doing 100 on the highway. In Wellington, it appears to be the culture that people rarely speed, and it's very acceptable (if you're not on a two lane road) to drive 10-20 under the limit. There are plenty of roads that technically have, say, an 80kph speed limit but you'd be white knuckle trying to do 40 on them.
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