You mean I can have most daily necessities within a short walk from home. That sounds like a great and convenient way to live. No more needing a car to go to Coles, the pub, a cafe, the local cinema. Sign me up.
The sun will become more luminous and render the planet uninhabitable in approximately one billion years. We are simply seeing another aspect of a fundamental failing of democracy. People keep voting for more government (ie more unnecessary rules and regulations) and more government handouts (eg disability benefits, green hydrogen subsidies) until the economy collapses.
Sydney Council is NOT Labor . Clover Moore is an Independent. Council has 5 Independents, 2 Liberal Party , 1 Greens , 1 Labor Party . Which proves how much you know , Jackass .
@@fakenews3676 most people don’t really care who’s in government as they don’t really see the implications . However , everyone feels the anger of ridiculously low speed limits .
Indeed , and not only on the streets , but also on highways , in Germany , when you're on a part of their highways with no speed limits , and that you're driving at over 200 KPH , or even 250 , you're extremely focus on the road ! And it's not boring at all !
If that's a concern for you, have you tried, idk, public transport? Or campaigning for better public transport in your area? Idk, just a thought because like, more people in 1 big vehicle = less pollution per person.
More about actual enforcement than anything else. Some cities actually limit E bike speeds to about 15-20 mph. But few if any cops would pull over a bike for going to fast, and most those laws only apply to Ebikes. If you can go that fast (perhaps going down hill) on a normal bike your free from most those laws. That said it's insanely dangerous to do so imo. You don't really have much ability to stop or avoid dangers at that speed on a bike. Your stopping distance is not great.
Ok here we go! Aim: Make driving vehicles in cities a pain the butt or illegal. Buy EV to save emissions in big cities, Pay less tolls/fees etc. In near future EVs and petro vehicles end up paying the same tolls/fees to enter city, because EVs cause excessive road wear, whatever. Then restrict personal vehicle travel to cities via smart cameras. Then vehicle free zones times enacted. Then vehicle free zones mandatory 24/7 Then promote 24/7 smart cities Then progress to 5 minute cities restrict pedestrian access out of designated precincts.
Oh yep.. 'cause of cars walking is illegal'.. why don't you do us all a favour and think about sequestering your own CO2 output, maybe limit the breathing!
@@donotcomply665 That is completely not true. The most fuel-efficient speed for vehicles is usually around 60-70km/h. Just look up "fuel economy vs speed graph". At faster and faster speeds beyond this point, you will use more and more fuel per kilometre, hence more $$$ and more emissions. This is because the increased air resistance and tire friction at higher speeds requires the engine to do more work.
Too many 'Change of Life' Women on these Committees that make these Nanny changes. Anybody with life in their veins is deminished to their low level of thinking.
Safer for pedestrians ? Roads are made for cars, not for pedestrians. Educate pedestrians to look where they're going and not focus on their mobile phones.
More pedestrian overpasses and subways should be installed rather than making speed limits ridiculously slow. Our governments are degenerating into nonsense machines.
@@JohnsonCranium agreed. I went back for a work thing last year and saw what they'd done/ were doing to Darling Harbour and decided I was never going back.
If they were truly worried about pedestrian safety, they should BAN unlicensed road uses from the road and footpaths. Yes, I am talking about bicycle and e-scooter users. I have been in more near miss accidents with the bicycle and scooters as a pedestrian then a car. Especially those bicycle riders who believe red lights don't apply to them. If they want to ride on the road like any other road user, they should have a licence & pay registration. Instead, they receive every perk without having to pay a cent for it.
Not everyone can ride a bike or walk to their destination. The elderly, those with debilitating health conditions, cancer etc. This is unconscionable. Sky - point out the issue that NOT everyone is ABLE to ride a bike to reach their destination for many reasons.
It's also not practical to take 4 kids somewhere with a bike. One, yes. Two small ones, maybe. Ride with a few teens, sure... But if you've got 3 or 4 kids under 12, you're taking them by car.
The proliferation of 40 km/h limits is for Labor to get extra revenue. It's is getting more taxes. it also ruins productivity by causing delays to business that is not paid by the taxpayer which can just be wasted by governments where productivity and effectiveness is totally out of the question. The other hidden danger is many of these concrete strips that are specifically designed to damage the wheels of cars if one accidentally travel over one of these. With the EVs they can damage the battery which might mean the EV needs to be written off which means that the councils installing these traps on city roads might be shooting themselves in the foot through stupidity of not understanding the consequences of the road mess that is created in and around the CBD.
Yeah it’s a non issue. The people who are outraged about this are the same people who tailgate constantly, text and drive, and generally behave like entitled A holes on AND off the roads.
The traffic is caused by one thing, It’s called a Worm effect or a phantom traffic jam. People sleeping on the overtaking lanes? Ohh my favourite people not accelerating up to speed in time because they don’t know where the accelerator pedal is or not sure how much to press it? Oh oh oh nah the best part is when they start braking when there is nothing in front of them!!! Oh boy the list keeps on going but who cares and who listens anyway. Ohhh did you know that sitting in traffic makes you waste more fuel than you driving! Again nobody cares and nobody listens or does anything to educate idiots! 😅
@VisionInTears 100% agree. I love driving but I get frustrated at intellectually challenged drivers that don't understand the very things you mentioned. I enjoy playing a game with the trip computer of best fuel mileage whilst driving quickly within speed limits smoothly and safely as possible using defensive driving and some hypermiling techniques. As a result my 2013 Holden commodore sportseagon long term averages 9.9 litres per hundred km and at 200,000 km is only just on its second set of brake pads, heck even the rotors are still factory. On top of that driving defensively using the best quality fuel, oil and tyres I can afford. It will be a cold day in he'll before I trade my beloved Commodore for a silly ev.
Or anything that doesn't fit well in a backpack. Or if you need to go more than about 10km in a reasonable time. I happily ride my bike almost everywhere these days. It helps that I bought a motor kit (legal - 250W, 25km/h limit set), but even before getting that, I was doing 90% of my local travel on the bike. But there's days you just can't. Pouring rain. Taking an air compressor to work. Carrying a computer to a friend's place. Some stuff you just have to take the car.
The same nonsense is happening in Brisbane. The city has a department of traffic obstruction which is wasting millions of dollars of ratepayers money on speed bumps, chicanes and lowering speed limits on good wide arterial roads. The 40 km/hr school zones around schools with their own designated traffic lights are also farcical and simply waste motorists’ time and exacerbate congestion. Numerous cycle lanes are almost empty for most of the day. The council should be widening roads in a city with a rapidly growing population. Presently it is doing exactly the opposite of what it should be.
About four years Portland Oregon (USA) got special dispensation from the state legislature to reduce speed limits by 5 mph across the board, to reduce pedestrian deaths. Guess what? Ped deaths went UP! With cars going slower, more peds thought they could beat the car. The real issue is the police NEVER ticket pedestrians for jay-walking, walking against the light, etc.
@@scruf153 No, If the ped is in the crosswalk or has the green light and gets hit then it is the driver's fault. My point is that the cops never ticket peds for anything. Before I retired I regularly saw a guy in the Hawthorne district deliberately crossing against the red light forcing traffic to stop for him. (He would make sure they had room to stop). Did the cops ever do anything? No, they just ignored him. Even bicyclists are insane, they managed to get the legislature to change the laws so that bicyclists don't have to stop at stop signs.
The French eventually revolted and started vandalising the numerous speed cameras around the country. Australia’s speed limits are already ridiculously slow and speed enforcement is very harsh.
That really did shit me when we visited the UK. While I didn't really want to be going much faster than 20mph in some of those villages in the 7m long motorhomes we had rented, I did still find it very slow. When you get overtaken by a guy on a standard, non-motorised push bike, you know the speed limit is too low.
The main problems with commuting is the lack of planning by the states, cities, and councils. Everything is planned for the next few years, not the next century. Also everything is piecemeal, making traffic co-ordination difficult or impossible.
In general I am all for giving people options. Bike lanes and the like take very little space and can in theory relieve a lot of traffic. The problem is almost no one uses them because Bike lanes are poorly designed, unsafe and start and stop randomly through out your city. Leading you to almost no destination you want. When you get there good luck on finding any kind of place to lock up your bike. Even if you do, bike theft is insanely common and the Police treat it as basically a non crime. You file a report and nothing happens.
I tried to use the "shared path" my council built... Used it for a week and gave up. I kept having to go back out to the road to get around cars parked on it, swerve off it when cars just drove straight across it without warning, or dodge the overgrown trees they apparently didn't see fit to cut back when they built it. I'm not sure what the point of building it was. It's not compatible with bikes. Or wheelchairs. Or many prams.
There is one reason they want your money through fines. It has nothing to do with speed because this type of going after the money has been around since the beginning of motoring
Why not make it voluntary to add 100 bucks to rego so you can pay it. I don't use public transport. Who wants to sit next to someone who thinks adding taxes is a good idea.
@@docjoei2224 How far out? Millions come from the south coast Blue Mountains Dubbo Windsor Wagga Albury on trains and buses. What are you, special living in the country you are also subsidised up the ying yang mate.
@@HMASJervisBay i am not aware of many people travelling from kootingal regularly to Sydney. Most of the wealth of this country comes from rural areas as soft or hard commodities. ATO and ABS data clearly show a nett export or taxes from rural areas to the city. I already pay to run your loss making public transport in sydney and football stadiums and the like 5hat only city people consume. You don’t pay for anything that rural people only consume.
Its easier to inconvenience the tax payers, than what it is to fix the roads. We are becoming a 3rd world country bit by bit. Fix the roads and cut emissions
I've been on roads with 10mi (16km) between speed signs. Google maps is really good for keeping you updated on what the speed limit is on the road you are driving.
1km between signs in residential/city areas is fine, IMO. But what frustrates me is when you turn off a road that's 60 or higher, enter a clearly marked 50 zone... Then when you exit the 50 zone, it doesn't tell you the speed - just says "end 50 area". Great. Is it 60? 80? 40? 100? Ducked if I know... I guess I'll try 60 and see if anyone honks behind me.
They reduced the limit to 30kph in the Christchurch CBD (if you can call it that) and spent $300m (so far) on new cycle ways, narrowing a lot of roads and removing on street parking spaces in the process. All it's done is clog the roads, make congestion far worse, and discouraged people from going to the city at all unless they absolutely have to for work. Central city retailers and eateries are suffering because many people just can't be bothered - it's much easier to go to a suburban mall because it's far easier to get to and you can park for free right outside the door. The latest hare-brained scheme is to reduce a major arterial road to the airport from 4 lanes down to 2, put in yet another cycle lane, and install an extra 9 sets of traffic lights with sensors to give cyclists priority to criss-cross the road on their contra-flowing cycle lanes. Because everyone taking a flight wants to ride to the airport with their suitcase strapped to their back, especially on a 2 degree winter morning.... Many city fringe or semi rural roads that used to have a 70 or 80kph limit have systematically been reduced to 50 - they simply lay a footpath and then redesignate it as a suburban road as a means of justifying it, even if the footpath then never gets used. We now literally have farms around my area that now have flash footpaths outside that have never seen a soul (or is that sole?) on them... Sorry about the rant - I remember Sydney's 60 and 70kph outer urban speed limits very fondly from my time living there, so it's a shame to see that vehicular utopia perhaps coming to an end.
It appears that your city also has a department of traffic obstruction like mine and many others. Some bizarre delusional ideation is permeating local governments around the Western world. It is especially farcical where I live because the city is rapidly growing in population and the city council actually should be widening many roads.
if you add bike lanens that can make streets narrower and make it needed to slow down ; but it also puts bikers next to cars a very dangerous thing; a better way is to have dedicated paths with few auto conflicts. IF it were really about trying to cut CO2 they should require carpooling and cut CO2 overnight - and increase speeds.
old pac from cowan to brooklyn got dropped from 80 to 70 overnight... no signs or notices that i saw. how about all teh dead end rural roads that went from 80 to 50 overnight? then after a few weeks, endless court appearances by locals, they went back to 70... only a few years ago did they finally scratch the "80" off my road... its been 60 for nearly two decades. the roads are falling apart, theres no driver training, theres more and more new drivers that have never operated any form of vehicle EVER. single lane roads, bottlenecks, only a few "main arterials" that every week have extra lanes removed and turned into bike paths and bus lanes... despite being less than an hour from the CBD, the closest shops with a petrol station is 20km away... we still have one or two unmarked roads that are technically "derestricted"... good luck actually DOING the "state limit" of 100... yet strangely enough it was no issue at all twenty years ago, before the roads were even SEALED... theres also the extreme opposite in some places, rather than going too slow... liberty street in newtown.enmore last time i rode it was still 60... a single lane goat track full of roundabouts... marrickville actually scares me, its rare to actually do 60 there... bella vista, beuna vista drive is absolutely insane with its treelined median strips, roundabouts, twisting hilly road, and street signs written with 8point fonts... as much as i LOVE syd enfield drive, whats the point when it then hits moore park rd, cook st, oxford st, all at 40? and up the other end... council st? bondi rd? then at night time, these two lane roads, devoid of life... and youre expected to crawl along being "safe" doing 40 when you could quite safely do 120...
You make a heck of a lot of claims about things "not making a difference to safety", you have a lot of "just so" stories but absolutely no data. You don't know what speeds kill people. You don't know the rates of people using bikes. You don't know how to accommodate population increases to areas. You don't know how much roads actually cost to maintain. You want non-drivers to subsidize your use of your private vehicle? Nah, you wanna use your private vehicle you can use the private toll roads and the private parking garages. Public tax should go to building public infrastructure that anyone can use and makes more of Sydney more accessible to all. If you don't want to acknowledge that you actually live in a CITY where population density means there is literally not enough space for enough roads for all the cars, go and live in the country, or support public transport and other measures that dissuade driving so that you can be left all alone on the roads.
Going slower.. slowing traffic down.. drivers spending longer on the road stuck in slow traffic with the cars turned on.. smart.. like so smart.. that is more polution and don't the same people in charge say they want to reduce that very polution but certainly not with nuclear power??
Will you grow up, you have fallen for it and others in the know will suffer again. You won't have a car soon, or food but your 15 minute city should be cosy.
Okay lost me at 1:10 that guy is such an idiot. "You can't get hit if you watch where your going"... ignores the blatantly obvious "You can't hit any one if you watch where your going". Kind of people that view they have the right to do what ever they want and every one else has to watch out for them don't deserve to be on the road.
@@adamtricarico8624 Yes you should always walk the same way you drive, as in you assume every one else on the road is an idiot and out to kill you. Just because the walk sign is blinking and you have the right to go doesn't mean a car won't run a red light or turn on red to kill you. Though in general the biggest danger for most pedestrians is when they are 100% in the right, aka walking on a sidewalk and a car guns it through a drive way without looking or even in a parking lot where people pull out without looking. In theory you have the right of way but much like a car always yield to who has the biggest vehicle. Because even if you have legal right of way, that Semi is going to make chunky salsa out of you if you don't yield for it.
Go to the city on a Friday or sat night, the place is completely dead. Use to he able to park somewhere and go out. Basically from St James down to the harbour and east of college st, forger driving around
@@whattheduck620 Bit of a difference in scale, though. The metro area of Perth is about 100ks give or take from north to south. Trust me, plenty of people have long commutes from the south of the river north and vice versa. Fifo workers in particular, going to and from the airport.
Are we talking motorbike style scooters or e-scooters? I'm OK with the encouragement of motorbikes, and licensing to go with it. They take much less space, and use way less fuel. And can generally accelerate faster than a car. But I'm 100% against escooters, despite having 2 in the garage which I hoped would be legal on day, but now hope they never make legal.
It's called 15 min cites.. time to revolt and take a stand Australia 🇦🇺
The Great Reset.
Was about to post the same thing
You mean I can have most daily necessities within a short walk from home. That sounds like a great and convenient way to live. No more needing a car to go to Coles, the pub, a cafe, the local cinema. Sign me up.
@@vinnieriley7227 if you want to live that way that's fine , the government shouldn't force everyone that doesn't want to live that way to do so
Such a speed limit is ridiculous! It's also a money-sucking exercise!
And POLLUTES the City MORE !
1984 Getting Closer Every Year.
It all literally started in 1984 in NZ. Among other things, I said at the time the clock is going backwards now.
"Well, they need the money they have promised to Zelensky."
Not even 1% of the national GDP is going to Ukraine. Try again...
Remove by any means the apparatus that wants to have control over you. Don’t wait for things to get really bad..because it will.
Too late for that.
@@user-zh5ri2fx8tNO !
Go slow enough and they will charge you with illegal parking.
It is all just to piss you off.
Slower driving speeds use more petrol.
Driving at 40 kmh ? When we consider the price of fuel you may as well walk.
Absolute nanny state.
Cars are most efficient in their top gears. Reducing speed limits will just destroy the planet faster...
On yer bike.
so drivers should be able to go as fast as they want on city streets no matter what you said it not me
It would be great if highways are no longer limited !
Yes. This is true for internal combustion engines. But for ev its the opposite. Maybe thats their plan👀
The sun will become more luminous and render the planet uninhabitable in approximately one billion years.
We are simply seeing another aspect of a fundamental failing of democracy. People keep voting for more government (ie more unnecessary rules and regulations) and more government handouts (eg disability benefits, green hydrogen subsidies) until the economy collapses.
All about revenue - nothing about safety. It is a Labor government - what else would you expect.
driver kills kid driver blames everyone but him/herself
Sydney Council is NOT Labor . Clover Moore is an Independent. Council has 5 Independents, 2 Liberal Party , 1 Greens , 1 Labor Party . Which proves how much you know , Jackass .
I agree
And the cameras everywhere
@@scruf153 kids have to learn how to share the streets with others , including drivers !
These are the types of issues that cause an overthrow of a government/ council
Using what?? Slingshot ??
@@goosecouple votes
What happened 3 - 4 years ago wasn't even enough to cause an overthrow of a government. But somehow speed limits will😂
@@fakenews3676 most people don’t really care who’s in government as they don’t really see the implications . However , everyone feels the anger of ridiculously low speed limits .
NSW (National Socialist WowserLand). Once a Penal colony always one.
Agreed, but we are still miles behind the peoples democratic republic of Victoria.
Same old nonsense happening here in the uk
On yer bike.
Street racers from America must stand with our Aussie brothers. Stay strong.
Another way to slow down production and destroy the economy its wef policy
It's to discourage people from going to work at all .
The reality is the slower you go the less attentive you are.
On yer bike.
drivers are the dumbest people on the planet and the fattest lazest people to
Indeed , and not only on the streets , but also on highways , in Germany , when you're on a part of their highways with no speed limits , and that you're driving at over 200 KPH , or even 250 , you're extremely focus on the road !
And it's not boring at all !
When will a politician will balls push to increase speed limits?
so you want city streets speed limits to be 100mph
@@scruf153 no, I never said that. Green councils are reducing limits to 30 in Melbourne which is beyond ridiculous in my opinion.
@@scruf153 No , but at least 60 KPH in daytime , and 70 KPH in night time .
And no speed limits on highways !
Vote One Nation.
@@BetterDeadThanRed_Reject1984NO.!
to UNLIMITED Highway Speeds !
they want you to get out of your car and push it
Cars with internal combustion engines are much less fuel efficient and more polluting at 40kl;mh that they are at 50klmh and 60klmh
If that's a concern for you, have you tried, idk, public transport? Or campaigning for better public transport in your area? Idk, just a thought because like, more people in 1 big vehicle = less pollution per person.
Bicycles are allowed to go faster than cars😂
More about actual enforcement than anything else. Some cities actually limit E bike speeds to about 15-20 mph. But few if any cops would pull over a bike for going to fast, and most those laws only apply to Ebikes. If you can go that fast (perhaps going down hill) on a normal bike your free from most those laws. That said it's insanely dangerous to do so imo. You don't really have much ability to stop or avoid dangers at that speed on a bike. Your stopping distance is not great.
and Also EV Scooters !
As it should be. Other cars are what is keeping your car slow!
The slower the car goes the longer it produces emissions it will run longer to get to your destination.
going over 15mph is dagerous in a city
@@scruf153 😂Of course it is.!
Ok here we go! Aim: Make driving vehicles in cities a pain the butt or illegal.
Buy EV to save emissions in big cities, Pay less tolls/fees etc.
In near future EVs and petro vehicles end up paying the same tolls/fees to enter city, because EVs cause excessive road wear, whatever.
Then restrict personal vehicle travel to cities via smart cameras.
Then vehicle free zones times enacted.
Then vehicle free zones mandatory 24/7
Then promote 24/7 smart cities
Then progress to 5 minute cities restrict pedestrian access out of designated precincts.
💯 % spot on.
And people will laugh at you for saying it.
driving in any city is a pain in the but because of cars and because of cars walking is illegal
Oh yep.. 'cause of cars walking is illegal'.. why don't you do us all a favour and think about sequestering your own CO2 output, maybe limit the breathing!
It is ! It's for discouraging people to using their cars
Its to raise revenue.
You go from a 60-40 zone they get you for 20kms over the speed limit.
💯
Higher speed limits on a highway have shown to be safer. People tend to pay more attention at higher speeds.
😂According to which study?
On yer bike.
Lower 'emissions' too - for those who claim to care about such things. But this is only about revenue raising
so your saying highway speeds are safe for city streets think before you speak
@@donotcomply665 That is completely not true. The most fuel-efficient speed for vehicles is usually around 60-70km/h. Just look up "fuel economy vs speed graph". At faster and faster speeds beyond this point, you will use more and more fuel per kilometre, hence more $$$ and more emissions. This is because the increased air resistance and tire friction at higher speeds requires the engine to do more work.
With all the speed cameras they put in not enough revenue for this pigs can never get enough
Too many 'Change of Life' Women on these Committees that make these Nanny changes. Anybody with life in their veins is deminished to their low level of thinking.
Safer for pedestrians ? Roads are made for cars, not for pedestrians. Educate pedestrians to look where they're going and not focus on their mobile phones.
More pedestrian overpasses and subways should be installed rather than making speed limits ridiculously slow. Our governments are degenerating into nonsense machines.
Jesus Christ. When I left Sydney in 2013 it was 60km/h throughout the CBD...
Leaving was the best decision you made in life.
I congratulate you 🎉😂👍
@@JohnsonCranium agreed. I went back for a work thing last year and saw what they'd done/ were doing to Darling Harbour and decided I was never going back.
It has the potential to increase frustration, aggression on the road.
maybe learn to drive
@@scruf153learn how to not to be someone that nobody likes !
I like how they say safer for pedestrian but do not put in foot paths.
😂 So what? Sydney’s a ridiculously costly, traffic choked dump. Anything crappy they layer on now is just absorbed in the existing 💩 pile.
🎵 why do you think they want people to use the trains ? 🎵
If they were truly worried about pedestrian safety, they should BAN unlicensed road uses from the road and footpaths. Yes, I am talking about bicycle and e-scooter users. I have been in more near miss accidents with the bicycle and scooters as a pedestrian then a car. Especially those bicycle riders who believe red lights don't apply to them. If they want to ride on the road like any other road user, they should have a licence & pay registration. Instead, they receive every perk without having to pay a cent for it.
The Vic state government must need money. Most of the main roads in my area have had their speed limits slashed
There is a need to encourage (educate) pedestrians and cyclists to take responsibility for their own safety.
drivers don't own the streets/roads no matter how much you cry
@@scruf153If the automobile didn't have its place , your egoist lifestyle would just never been possible !
I agree. If you blindly walk into traffic with your phone in front of your face and headphones blocking out the noise, that's not anyone else's fault.
@@tin2001 Precisely! And I have photos of people doing just that from my dashcam.
Not everyone can ride a bike or walk to their destination. The elderly, those with debilitating health conditions, cancer etc. This is unconscionable. Sky - point out the issue that NOT everyone is ABLE to ride a bike to reach their destination for many reasons.
in most places there are no safe places to walk cycle or use a weelchair because of the car
@@scruf153Useful idiot
It's also not practical to take 4 kids somewhere with a bike. One, yes. Two small ones, maybe. Ride with a few teens, sure... But if you've got 3 or 4 kids under 12, you're taking them by car.
Correct they want you to buy a car but not use it.
The proliferation of 40 km/h limits is for Labor to get extra revenue. It's is getting more taxes. it also ruins productivity by causing delays to business that is not paid by the taxpayer which can just be wasted by governments where productivity and effectiveness is totally out of the question.
The other hidden danger is many of these concrete strips that are specifically designed to damage the wheels of cars if one accidentally travel over one of these. With the EVs they can damage the battery which might mean the EV needs to be written off which means that the councils installing these traps on city roads might be shooting themselves in the foot through stupidity of not understanding the consequences of the road mess that is created in and around the CBD.
40KMh is common in many NSW country town CBD's, the constant traffic problems in Sydney make reaching 40KMh in the city near impossible anyway.🤨
Yeah it’s a non issue. The people who are outraged about this are the same people who tailgate constantly, text and drive, and generally behave like entitled A holes on AND off the roads.
The traffic is caused by one thing, It’s called a Worm effect or a phantom traffic jam. People sleeping on the overtaking lanes? Ohh my favourite people not accelerating up to speed in time because they don’t know where the accelerator pedal is or not sure how much to press it? Oh oh oh nah the best part is when they start braking when there is nothing in front of them!!! Oh boy the list keeps on going but who cares and who listens anyway. Ohhh did you know that sitting in traffic makes you waste more fuel than you driving! Again nobody cares and nobody listens or does anything to educate idiots! 😅
@VisionInTears 100% agree. I love driving but I get frustrated at intellectually challenged drivers that don't understand the very things you mentioned. I enjoy playing a game with the trip computer of best fuel mileage whilst driving quickly within speed limits smoothly and safely as possible using defensive driving and some hypermiling techniques. As a result my 2013 Holden commodore sportseagon long term averages 9.9 litres per hundred km and at 200,000 km is only just on its second set of brake pads, heck even the rotors are still factory. On top of that driving defensively using the best quality fuel, oil and tyres I can afford.
It will be a cold day in he'll before I trade my beloved Commodore for a silly ev.
Cycle down a busy street carrying a step ladder......
Or anything that doesn't fit well in a backpack. Or if you need to go more than about 10km in a reasonable time.
I happily ride my bike almost everywhere these days. It helps that I bought a motor kit (legal - 250W, 25km/h limit set), but even before getting that, I was doing 90% of my local travel on the bike. But there's days you just can't. Pouring rain. Taking an air compressor to work. Carrying a computer to a friend's place. Some stuff you just have to take the car.
The same nonsense is happening in Brisbane.
The city has a department of traffic obstruction which is wasting millions of dollars of ratepayers money on speed bumps, chicanes and lowering speed limits on good wide arterial roads. The 40 km/hr school zones around schools with their own designated traffic lights are also farcical and simply waste motorists’ time and exacerbate congestion. Numerous cycle lanes are almost empty for most of the day.
The council should be widening roads in a city with a rapidly growing population. Presently it is doing exactly the opposite of what it should be.
Whoever increases the speed limit gets my vote
About four years Portland Oregon (USA) got special dispensation from the state legislature to reduce speed limits by 5 mph across the board, to reduce pedestrian deaths. Guess what? Ped deaths went UP! With cars going slower, more peds thought they could beat the car. The real issue is the police NEVER ticket pedestrians for jay-walking, walking against the light, etc.
so drivers are never responsible for anything driver kills a kid in the crosswalk the driver is not responsible
@@scruf153 No, If the ped is in the crosswalk or has the green light and gets hit then it is the driver's fault. My point is that the cops never ticket peds for anything. Before I retired I regularly saw a guy in the Hawthorne district deliberately crossing against the red light forcing traffic to stop for him. (He would make sure they had room to stop). Did the cops ever do anything? No, they just ignored him. Even bicyclists are insane, they managed to get the legislature to change the laws so that bicyclists don't have to stop at stop signs.
So , the solution is to increasing the speed limits !
@@BetterDeadThanRed_Reject1984 🤣 LOL!!!!
Trying to get more speeding fines. And pedestrians that have earphones on should be held accountable
Not enough money from speed cameras now they are doing this the 2000 extra cameras not doing its job
The French eventually revolted and started vandalising the numerous speed cameras around the country.
Australia’s speed limits are already ridiculously slow and speed enforcement is very harsh.
I live in a 25kph zone, no one takes any notice of the speed limit whatsoever.
Is there anyone in power/politics doing anything about this nonsense?
That’s what they did in some villages in the U.K.!
That really did shit me when we visited the UK. While I didn't really want to be going much faster than 20mph in some of those villages in the 7m long motorhomes we had rented, I did still find it very slow. When you get overtaken by a guy on a standard, non-motorised push bike, you know the speed limit is too low.
Soon 30 and then 20. Yes bike lanes are empty but of course there are lots of cars. Yes the woke councils are real
If it goes any lower, school zones will be 10kms/hr and I would need to put the car into reverse to drive around in a parking lot.
The main problems with commuting is the lack of planning by the states, cities, and councils. Everything is planned for the next few years, not the next century. Also everything is piecemeal, making traffic co-ordination difficult or impossible.
Brisbane has been doing this for the last 5 years, there are 50 and 40 zones all over the city on major roads.
youtubes censorship is getting worse and worse.
In general I am all for giving people options. Bike lanes and the like take very little space and can in theory relieve a lot of traffic. The problem is almost no one uses them because Bike lanes are poorly designed, unsafe and start and stop randomly through out your city. Leading you to almost no destination you want. When you get there good luck on finding any kind of place to lock up your bike.
Even if you do, bike theft is insanely common and the Police treat it as basically a non crime. You file a report and nothing happens.
I tried to use the "shared path" my council built... Used it for a week and gave up. I kept having to go back out to the road to get around cars parked on it, swerve off it when cars just drove straight across it without warning, or dodge the overgrown trees they apparently didn't see fit to cut back when they built it.
I'm not sure what the point of building it was. It's not compatible with bikes. Or wheelchairs. Or many prams.
Car is granting freedom
While public transport don't !
They want to **PUNISH YOU 😂😂IN CERTAIN AREAS 😂😂**
Comedy Gold on Sky/Fox...
Yeah they already got to your mentality😂
@@merlinite- Get Vaxxed...
state bootlicker troll .. your emojis are so compelling .. it's impossible to believe government is corrupt after seeing your derisive emojis.
The main source of comedy gold here is you.
Beats the misery from the ABC
Next news headlines NSW residents leaving Sydney CBD due to state government being nutcases 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😉
Next , like London and inner city tax on cars!
Wait for it!😊
You need a Trailerbus that takes bikes and mobility scooters on busy roads with a 30km/h default limit on unsignposted roads.
Oh look... more 'Nanny' state penalties.
My god, when I think of all the places wherein the speed limits should in fact be INCREASED.
There is one reason they want your money through fines. It has nothing to do with speed because this type of going after the money has been around since the beginning of motoring
fine, more bike lanes, bigger cycle culture, congestion charge, london.
Because drivers are less competent, and there are more cars!
The do not care about people, they breed hamsters.
Revenue raising scheme.
Drive anywhere in Sydney. The speed can't be much more than 29khr around the town. Why not add 100 dollars to the rego and make Public transport free?
people outside of Sydney exist! we don’t have access to the public transport that we already subsidise for you😮
Why not make it voluntary to add 100 bucks to rego so you can pay it. I don't use public transport. Who wants to sit next to someone who thinks adding taxes is a good idea.
@@Diponty Don't be a knob mate.
@@docjoei2224 How far out? Millions come from the south coast Blue Mountains Dubbo Windsor Wagga Albury on trains and buses. What are you, special living in the country you are also subsidised up the ying yang mate.
@@HMASJervisBay i am not aware of many people travelling from kootingal regularly to Sydney. Most of the wealth of this country comes from rural areas as soft or hard commodities. ATO and ABS data clearly show a nett export or taxes from rural areas to the city. I already pay to run your loss making public transport in sydney and football stadiums and the like 5hat only city people consume. You don’t pay for anything that rural people only consume.
The roads would be safer for cyclists if I wasn't having to keep looking at my speedo every 200m for speed limit changes.
Its easier to inconvenience the tax payers, than what it is to fix the roads. We are becoming a 3rd world country bit by bit. Fix the roads and cut emissions
It will also increase their revenue through speeding fines.
They won't be happy until we are all wearing bubbles.
Don't want people speeding put more speed signs on roads. You can go for 1 or 2 km on a road without seeing a single speed sign.
I've been on roads with 10mi (16km) between speed signs. Google maps is really good for keeping you updated on what the speed limit is on the road you are driving.
1km between signs in residential/city areas is fine, IMO. But what frustrates me is when you turn off a road that's 60 or higher, enter a clearly marked 50 zone... Then when you exit the 50 zone, it doesn't tell you the speed - just says "end 50 area". Great. Is it 60? 80? 40? 100? Ducked if I know... I guess I'll try 60 and see if anyone honks behind me.
Sell your car and buy a horse
then they'll tax you every time it farts!
No thanks !
They reduced the limit to 30kph in the Christchurch CBD (if you can call it that) and spent $300m (so far) on new cycle ways, narrowing a lot of roads and removing on street parking spaces in the process. All it's done is clog the roads, make congestion far worse, and discouraged people from going to the city at all unless they absolutely have to for work. Central city retailers and eateries are suffering because many people just can't be bothered - it's much easier to go to a suburban mall because it's far easier to get to and you can park for free right outside the door.
The latest hare-brained scheme is to reduce a major arterial road to the airport from 4 lanes down to 2, put in yet another cycle lane, and install an extra 9 sets of traffic lights with sensors to give cyclists priority to criss-cross the road on their contra-flowing cycle lanes. Because everyone taking a flight wants to ride to the airport with their suitcase strapped to their back, especially on a 2 degree winter morning....
Many city fringe or semi rural roads that used to have a 70 or 80kph limit have systematically been reduced to 50 - they simply lay a footpath and then redesignate it as a suburban road as a means of justifying it, even if the footpath then never gets used. We now literally have farms around my area that now have flash footpaths outside that have never seen a soul (or is that sole?) on them...
Sorry about the rant - I remember Sydney's 60 and 70kph outer urban speed limits very fondly from my time living there, so it's a shame to see that vehicular utopia perhaps coming to an end.
It appears that your city also has a department of traffic obstruction like mine and many others. Some bizarre delusional ideation is permeating local governments around the Western world. It is especially farcical where I live because the city is rapidly growing in population and the city council actually should be widening many roads.
Watch the LEZ and ULEZ signs start going up.
if you add bike lanens that can make streets narrower and make it needed to slow down ; but it also puts bikers next to cars a very dangerous thing; a better way is to have dedicated paths with few auto conflicts. IF it were really about trying to cut CO2 they should require carpooling and cut CO2 overnight - and increase speeds.
old pac from cowan to brooklyn got dropped from 80 to 70 overnight... no signs or notices that i saw.
how about all teh dead end rural roads that went from 80 to 50 overnight? then after a few weeks, endless court appearances by locals, they went back to 70...
only a few years ago did they finally scratch the "80" off my road... its been 60 for nearly two decades.
the roads are falling apart, theres no driver training, theres more and more new drivers that have never operated any form of vehicle EVER. single lane roads, bottlenecks, only a few "main arterials" that every week have extra lanes removed and turned into bike paths and bus lanes...
despite being less than an hour from the CBD, the closest shops with a petrol station is 20km away... we still have one or two unmarked roads that are technically "derestricted"... good luck actually DOING the "state limit" of 100... yet strangely enough it was no issue at all twenty years ago, before the roads were even SEALED...
theres also the extreme opposite in some places, rather than going too slow... liberty street in newtown.enmore last time i rode it was still 60... a single lane goat track full of roundabouts...
marrickville actually scares me, its rare to actually do 60 there...
bella vista, beuna vista drive is absolutely insane with its treelined median strips, roundabouts, twisting hilly road, and street signs written with 8point fonts...
as much as i LOVE syd enfield drive, whats the point when it then hits moore park rd, cook st, oxford st, all at 40? and up the other end... council st? bondi rd?
then at night time, these two lane roads, devoid of life... and youre expected to crawl along being "safe" doing 40 when you could quite safely do 120...
I never drive in the CBD in Sydney. I only ever catch the Metro at this point.
Please don't let this air in the U.S. this current circus ring leader and his clowns like to follow other countries with clowns running them.
Speed limits in the US are way too
S l o w
To be okay , especially on highways !
Horse and cart perhaps
Dear brothers and sisters a humble effort at mine....
You make a heck of a lot of claims about things "not making a difference to safety", you have a lot of "just so" stories but absolutely no data. You don't know what speeds kill people. You don't know the rates of people using bikes. You don't know how to accommodate population increases to areas. You don't know how much roads actually cost to maintain.
You want non-drivers to subsidize your use of your private vehicle? Nah, you wanna use your private vehicle you can use the private toll roads and the private parking garages. Public tax should go to building public infrastructure that anyone can use and makes more of Sydney more accessible to all.
If you don't want to acknowledge that you actually live in a CITY where population density means there is literally not enough space for enough roads for all the cars, go and live in the country, or support public transport and other measures that dissuade driving so that you can be left all alone on the roads.
Going slower.. slowing traffic down.. drivers spending longer on the road stuck in slow traffic with the cars turned on.. smart.. like so smart.. that is more polution and don't the same people in charge say they want to reduce that very polution but certainly not with nuclear power??
Just buy a Farrari and drive it by only idling from stop to stop. More economical than an EV.
OUST the OVER-REACHERS......NOW !
Easy to fix them council...stick together and dont pay tham anything
That the no#1 issue
*20 MPH will generate more CO2 Great for the Planet !*
Will you grow up, you have fallen for it and others in the know will suffer again. You won't have a car soon, or food but your 15 minute city should be cosy.
Yup. Not to mention increased brake dust generation.
@@vivrowe2763 Finally! I went through all the comments and you are the only commenter who gets it.
@@Diponty It's sad isn't it! They refuse to listen.
Okay lost me at 1:10 that guy is such an idiot. "You can't get hit if you watch where your going"... ignores the blatantly obvious "You can't hit any one if you watch where your going". Kind of people that view they have the right to do what ever they want and every one else has to watch out for them don't deserve to be on the road.
Yeah coz cars can stop within a foot after braking just like i can when i'm on foot. roads are for cars. look right, look left, and look right again.
@@adamtricarico8624 Yes you should always walk the same way you drive, as in you assume every one else on the road is an idiot and out to kill you. Just because the walk sign is blinking and you have the right to go doesn't mean a car won't run a red light or turn on red to kill you.
Though in general the biggest danger for most pedestrians is when they are 100% in the right, aka walking on a sidewalk and a car guns it through a drive way without looking or even in a parking lot where people pull out without looking.
In theory you have the right of way but much like a car always yield to who has the biggest vehicle. Because even if you have legal right of way, that Semi is going to make chunky salsa out of you if you don't yield for it.
Sure, it will save a few lives, but millions will be late.
your responsible for being on time no one else to blame
They don't worth the case to decreasing speed limits !
You don't realise that you are carbon and you are what they want gone.
just drive in reverse...
hey officer, i'm not speeding, it's -60km/h "forwards" :)
*George Carlin - Driving* 🎥
Well I won't use my car, at least around Sydney because I won't go there and spend money. :-P
Go to the city on a Friday or sat night, the place is completely dead. Use to he able to park somewhere and go out. Basically from St James down to the harbour and east of college st, forger driving around
Look who they get to interview lol
Motorised scooters, works in Asia.
Does it?
@@brothermaynard3200 does in Taiwan, can fit whole family on 1 scooter. Too many cars in Australia with 1 person in them.
@@whattheduck620 Bit of a difference in scale, though. The metro area of Perth is about 100ks give or take from north to south. Trust me, plenty of people have long commutes from the south of the river north and vice versa. Fifo workers in particular, going to and from the airport.
Are we talking motorbike style scooters or e-scooters?
I'm OK with the encouragement of motorbikes, and licensing to go with it. They take much less space, and use way less fuel. And can generally accelerate faster than a car.
But I'm 100% against escooters, despite having 2 in the garage which I hoped would be legal on day, but now hope they never make legal.
Well Asians should not drive in Australia then.
Getting a tradie to ride their bike to their in the city with all their tools on their backs lol 😂
Dan has a way of dealing with bike riders!
Dare you😊
i CANNOT BELIEVE that you only now discovered this. Sorry about the caps
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