Speed limits

[geekdiggy]

I´m Spanish and here in this country speed limint on roads is 120 km/h. Here everybody say that this is not enough and want more, about 140-150km/h. And I ask myself if in other countries you have more or less speed limits on your roads. What´s your opinion about this?

[TT]

120 km/h on the highway with some 5% of tolerancy if I remember well :D

100 km/h on semi-highway (single lane)

80 km/h outside towns where the road is clear

60 km/h between towns and cities or on dangerous bits

50 km/h in towns

[Zonda11]

100 KM/H -----I wish they would move it to 120 so i could drive 145 all the time!

[veilsidebr]

Well, here in Brazil most of highways have 100 or 120 of speed limit. I thinks it´s few for me, but, for the safe of all, it´s good. I like to drive fast, yeah, i still don´t have my car, but my dad leaves me to drive in the highways every time we travel, and, when we are just me and him on the car, i can trap 170...180 Km/h easy, because the highways are so good, good asphalt and plane. Like a race track. There are many radars and if you really want to go fast, be care with them.

Many people drive fast off course, but i think that to drive on a race track it would be better and more exiting. So, it´s for this reason i pretend to make a racing school this year. Driving on the track is so much more exiting and fast than on the sreets. And there are no radars to bother me, off course.

[blah]

The maximum speed limit law in California is 65 unless otherwise posted. Lots of people think that if you keep up with flow of traffic you wont get a ticket, thats not the case, you will.

[asthenia]

Yeah, it's 100km/h in Toronto, but where are the cops? I drive whatever speed I want, and I've only been caught twice. And the second one was a warning, for 129 in an 80!

[Imre]

In estonia we have 90km/h but in summer it is 100-110km/h when the road is good to raise the limit.It should be 150km/h.

[racer_f50]

75mph (about 120km/h i think) on the highways here in South Dakota.

[ahmedgiyab]

80-100 in the city
Highway 120(but no one keeps it) :lol:

[Fleischmann]

Well in Poland the maximum speed limit is 130km an hour on highways. The road conditions in Poland are absolutely pathetic, coz we are a rather poor country compared to westrn Europe. The maximum speed applies on highways, unfortunately there are currently no more than 200km 2 laned roads of this type. We have however dual carrageways, but they are also in a bad state.

The funny thing is that in, for example, Germany there is basucally no speed limit pn highways and there is still a much lower number of car accidents than in my country.

[altezza]

80-100 km/h for highways
50 km/h for city
30 km/h for school zone

the speed limit for highways should be raised for sure
but then ppl will start driving 10% faster than the speed limit (which is pointless to revised the current speed limit)

[ahmedgiyab]

In Hungary...

50km/h in the city

130km/h highways

[zevolv]

In Illinois the fasted speed limit posted is 75mph down south in farm country. Up north near Chicago it doesn't go past 65, and 45 in urban areas and 35 in suburbs. The average would be around 55 on highways though.

[kawa22]

Italy 130km/h,150km/h in future

[FerrariFerrari]

The funny thing is that in, for example, Germany there is basucally no speed limit pn highways and there is still a much lower number of car accidents than in my country.

That's because the highways are highly maintained and never in less than perfect
condition. And rules like drinking and driving, eating while driving, and using
a cell phone are strictly enforced. And Germans tend to be safer drivers and keep
better care of there cars so they don't have malfunctions that can be deadly at
high speeds. Plus German automobiles are designed to take high speeds.

The Autobahn is believe it or not actually the safest highway in the world.

[Fleischmann]

The funny thing is that in, for example, Germany there is basucally no speed limit pn highways and there is still a much lower number of car accidents than in my country.

That's because the highways are highly maintained and never in less than perfect
condition. And rules like drinking and driving, eating while driving, and using
a cell phone are strictly enforced. And Germans tend to be safer drivers and keep
better care of there cars so they don't have malfunctions that can be deadly at
high speeds. Plus German automobiles are designed to take high speeds.

The Autobahn is believe it or not actually the safest highway in the world.

Yes, I realize that, but I still find it quite ironic. Going 200km/h on a straight road, without traffic l;ights and all that hit is safer than, going 100km/ on crappy dual carrageways that we have in Poland, badly lighted and full of pot holes.

[SamuraiGti]

Here in Portugal is:

120km/h for highway
90km/h outside towns
50km/h inside towns

[gottacatchup]

Texas(mph)

"60" on the major freeways most peole go 80
30-40 around town

[FerrariFerrari]

Yes, I realize that, but I still find it quite ironic. Going 200km/h on a straight road, without traffic l;ights and all that hit is safer than, going 100km/ on crappy dual carrageways that we have in Poland, badly lighted and full of pot holes.

Yes, it is. To bad it will probably be a long time till we see speed limits
like that in the US. That's mainly due to the politicians, they mess up
everything. :(

[initiala4]

In Thailand there are no speed limits, but heck traffic is bad as anything. Almost like a parking lot. People here tend to drive slow as their nature.

[scubywrxr]

South Africa has a highest speed limit of 120kmh
100kmh on rural roads
60kmh in urban areas

[Wutputt]

Belgium 120
Holland 120
France 130
Not much people respect that limit when there's not much traffic, certainly not at night. I think almost nobody respects it then :D
Although it's changing due to those ridiculous high fines :(

[dylan99]

Germany Autobahn, NO SPEED LIMITS!!!!!! very cool.

[Zonda11]

Here in Portugal is:

120km/h for highway
90km/h outside towns
50km/h inside towns

I watched a show on tv about the situation in Portugal -- on the M "something or other" . They say its the most dangerous highway in the world -- and all noted that 40-50 percent of the drivers they pull over have been drinking.