Generally traffic doesn't allow travelling faster than a certain speed anyhow. But hence I said most.
Can you believe we have 60 mph speed limits with average speed camera's on stretches like this over here in the NL:
https://goo.gl/maps/Gi2pb
The reason is ''noise pollution'' for the towns of Breukelen or Abcoude...
990870 fines ( yep, nearly one million) were sent out in just 2013 alone on that stretch after the speed camera's were placed.
The number of offenders has decreased now, as everybody drives slow in fear of a fine now, but you constantly see people messing about on their phone, hell I've seen one driver reading a book while driving there.
This is an extreme example I guess, as it's a recently upgraded motorway, which is straight, flat, well lit, etc, but still.
Near bigger cities 70-80 mph is fine ( now 50 or 60 mph limits over here) but the more rural areas can comfortably be driven at 90 imho.
I've been making loads of miles travelling from R'dam to Warsaw in the past years, and driving in Germany or Poland is much more relaxed, the cops don't even bat an eye in Poland if you do 100 mph there, since the speed limit is 86 mph on motorways there. And Germany, bar the bit between Braunschweig and Magdeburg ( has 3 speed camera's there), you can pretty much drive as fast as you please/traffic allows, if you get a fine then it's no biggie, as the fine is only a tenner for up to 10 km/h to fast and just 30 euros for 20 to fast. During weekdays it means 80 ish due to heavy traffic, but on sunday, without the trucks, it's a breeze to just drive on cruise control @ 100 mph there, for pretty much the whole BAB30 and BAB2.
Can you believe we have 60 mph speed limits with average speed camera's on stretches like this over here in the NL:
https://goo.gl/maps/Gi2pb
The reason is ''noise pollution'' for the towns of Breukelen or Abcoude...
990870 fines ( yep, nearly one million) were sent out in just 2013 alone on that stretch after the speed camera's were placed.
The number of offenders has decreased now, as everybody drives slow in fear of a fine now, but you constantly see people messing about on their phone, hell I've seen one driver reading a book while driving there.
This is an extreme example I guess, as it's a recently upgraded motorway, which is straight, flat, well lit, etc, but still.
Near bigger cities 70-80 mph is fine ( now 50 or 60 mph limits over here) but the more rural areas can comfortably be driven at 90 imho.
I've been making loads of miles travelling from R'dam to Warsaw in the past years, and driving in Germany or Poland is much more relaxed, the cops don't even bat an eye in Poland if you do 100 mph there, since the speed limit is 86 mph on motorways there. And Germany, bar the bit between Braunschweig and Magdeburg ( has 3 speed camera's there), you can pretty much drive as fast as you please/traffic allows, if you get a fine then it's no biggie, as the fine is only a tenner for up to 10 km/h to fast and just 30 euros for 20 to fast. During weekdays it means 80 ish due to heavy traffic, but on sunday, without the trucks, it's a breeze to just drive on cruise control @ 100 mph there, for pretty much the whole BAB30 and BAB2.
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