who cares about speed limits?
if we all didn't spend so much time in the bluddy car anyway it wouldn't be an issue.
we could folow the netherlands route - blanket 80kph limits.
"hoons" need outlets. i'm a "hoon" from way back. you provide a small motorsport event every sunday and watch it grow. all you need is a truckstop motorkhana on the fringes, a skidpan day, 1/8mile drags on a closed road - the cops have the powers to do it. where did the blue light drags go, anyway?
my point is, after an event like this, your adrenaline is wasted. i drive like a nanna after a few laps of wanneroo, and if i knew a small organised event were on every sunday i'd just hold out for the event instead of driving like a nutter every time it drizzles.
motorsport may be a little loud or a social faux-pas, but youth + power = trouble. give them an outlet for that power and the road toll from such activities will drop markedly.
i speak from experience and from these circles and the proof that more legislation is not working is staring you in the face. where fast cars + P Platers hae been banned, now standard pulsars and falcons are being impounded because the'yre just moving to the next most powerful class of vehicle.
we had more fun in a 120Y with a 180B engine in it than when we used to thrash the fivepointoh commodore. i know of a few excels getting around with worked 2.0L lantra engines in them - but you wouldn't know to look at them.
thought, not legislation, is needed to curb the road toll.
if we all didn't spend so much time in the bluddy car anyway it wouldn't be an issue.
we could folow the netherlands route - blanket 80kph limits.
"hoons" need outlets. i'm a "hoon" from way back. you provide a small motorsport event every sunday and watch it grow. all you need is a truckstop motorkhana on the fringes, a skidpan day, 1/8mile drags on a closed road - the cops have the powers to do it. where did the blue light drags go, anyway?
my point is, after an event like this, your adrenaline is wasted. i drive like a nanna after a few laps of wanneroo, and if i knew a small organised event were on every sunday i'd just hold out for the event instead of driving like a nutter every time it drizzles.
motorsport may be a little loud or a social faux-pas, but youth + power = trouble. give them an outlet for that power and the road toll from such activities will drop markedly.
i speak from experience and from these circles and the proof that more legislation is not working is staring you in the face. where fast cars + P Platers hae been banned, now standard pulsars and falcons are being impounded because the'yre just moving to the next most powerful class of vehicle.
we had more fun in a 120Y with a 180B engine in it than when we used to thrash the fivepointoh commodore. i know of a few excels getting around with worked 2.0L lantra engines in them - but you wouldn't know to look at them.
thought, not legislation, is needed to curb the road toll.