• @the_sisko@startrek.website
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    151 year ago

    Or, alternatively narrow and calm the road, because something is wrong with it. If a 20mph limit is set, there’s probably a good reason, but it’s not good enough to just put up the signs, you need to make people feel uncomfortable driving more than that on the road via calming measures.

    • This is definitely the wrong take. If the majority of people are going over the speed limit with no negative results, the speed limit is the issue

        • @SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml
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          71 year ago

          Noise concerns is a joke. I drive a truck in Germany. In many villages and some areas of towns/cities, trucks are to drive at 30 kph instead of 50 kph at night to reduce noise levels. The joke is, when I drive at 30, the truck is in a lower gear than at 50, making more noise, passing more slowly (noise duration longer) and putting out a higher volume of CO2 for the duration.

          Cars with fart cans and motorbikes with their loud exhausts are way louder than my truck could ever be driving those roads - at any speed.

            • Jesse
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              11 year ago

              @NuPNuA @SoGrumpy you’re underestimating the noise of your tyres at higher speeds, which for a truck with a lot of tyres is considerable.

            • @SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml
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              11 year ago

              But it’s only trucks that have to slow down, and my truck - like most modern trucks - has an ‘L’ classification for Austria, which stands for ‘Lärmarm’ which translates to ‘Quiet’.