News: Highway 20 eastbound speed limit dropped to 70km/h?

For the past few weeks, I noticed a few times that there was a Transport Québec truck stopped near the exit for 32nd avenue in Lachine on the 20. This Transport Quebec guy was on the shoulder near the wall pointing a radar gun down the highway facing West (Eastbound traffic). I was wondering what was up...

The signs (70kmh) came up during this past weekend I believe! Then on Sunday nite, I saw a SQ car stopping speeders near the same exit! So the SQ is already enforcing the area! Be careful!
 
Protégé Tuner said:
x2. This is horrendous. I can imagine that people still won't give two shits about that limit and will continue to do 100 km/h like they do at Decarie. Either that or the government will receive nice stacks of complaints.
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whos gonna complain, the sheeple?
 
Hier je suis partis de ile perrot vers Mtl a 21:00... CLiss de gang de moron il pourrait au moins moduler la vitesse en fonction de l'heure, c'est long à 70 km/h se rendre à Mtl et il y avait aucun trafic. A 250 metre avant l'arrivé du 70 km/h il s'est formé un mini bouchon a cause du ralentissement de vitesse, c'est clair qu'il va y avoir un carambolage.

C'est une méchante connerie cette vitesse de 70.
 
DannyITR said:
So from my calculations it appears that they've reduced the limit over a span of about 3km (45th ave to 1st ave where it was already a 70km/h limit). They likely did this because traffic always stops dead at 32nd ave and now there will less of a chance of people rear ending each other who maybe were not familiar with the traffic patterns. Annoying, yes, but not quite worth the big freak out in my opinion. Keep in mind, 99% of drivers are not young guys in sports cars who think they are driving in the Indy 500. Most drivers are ignorant, distracted and have very little driving ability whatsoever in my opinion. This limit is to protect them and sadly the people who know how to drive will suffer a little. I can't fault the government for trying to protect people's lives though. I know a person who is partially paralyzed from being rear ended on this stretch of the 20 and it's a damn shame.
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Here's the thing though. 100km or 70km, if you aren't paying attention you still end up in a pretty bad accident. It's not even a speed thing, it's people NOT PAYING ATTENTION. I was rear ended two years ago around 32nd avenue stuck in bumper to bumper traffic...in my rear view i could see her texting...we start moving then come to stop and she just bumps me doing 15km..still enough to dent and scratch my bumper.

Same problem on St-Patrick..now they've taken our precious two lanes heading west and put a bus lane...in 2 weeks since they've done that i've seen maybe 1 bus. Of course the cops are out in full force because people just don't realize there is a new bus lane. This city is slowly transforming into public transport central and we the drivers are footing the bill for this crap.

I still think my favorite is the St-Anne's exit off the 40 ..closed for over a year and not one construction worker, truck, tractor etc etc in the area.
 
PsychoBandito said:
... and the one person doing 70 is going to get destroyed.

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Which is me, in my Sidekick...I try to stick around the speed limits, usually will drive 10km/h over, but it's getting harder and harder because speed limits are lower and lower and people more and more in a hurry.

Last time someone complained to me about driving too slow (still above the speed limit by 10km/h) I replied that I didn't know there was a race.
 
Mr JDM said:
Here's the thing though. 100km or 70km, if you aren't paying attention you still end up in a pretty bad accident. It's not even a speed thing, it's people NOT PAYING ATTENTION. I was rear ended two years ago around 32nd avenue stuck in bumper to bumper traffic...in my rear view i could see her texting...we start moving then come to stop and she just bumps me doing 15km..still enough to dent and scratch my bumper.

Same problem on St-Patrick..now they've taken our precious two lanes heading west and put a bus lane...in 2 weeks since they've done that i've seen maybe 1 bus. Of course the cops are out in full force because people just don't realize there is a new bus lane. This city is slowly transforming into public transport central and we the drivers are footing the bill for this crap.

I still think my favorite is the St-Anne's exit off the 40 ..closed for over a year and not one construction worker, truck, tractor etc etc in the area.
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that bus lane on st-patrick is supposed to be for when they start working on turcotte
 
jkaic said:
tru dat. Anyways it's about time they make bus lanes.
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Une HOV lane aurait été beaucoup mieux. Au moins les personnes qui, comme moi, détestent le transport en commun, auraient pu covoiturer pour se rendre au centre-ville. C'est pas très rentable niveau espace de fermer une voie à l'heure de pointe pour faire passer un bus aux 10 minutes, aussi bien permettre le covoiturage dessus pour maximiser l'action et l'espace...
 
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