• helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz
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    18 hours ago

    They can drive however they want in their villages. But they need to follow our rules when they come to town.

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      17 hours ago

      They can drive however they want in their villages

      They can’t though, they have to follow rules and speed limits that are set by people not in their villages.

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        16 hours ago

        Anyways, I suppose I should thank you for providing more evidence that drivers are selfish morons.

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        16 hours ago

        What are you talking about? If Lausanne sets a speed limit of 30 km/hr in Lausanne that does not change the speed limit in Morrens or Bercher or Savigny.

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          15 hours ago

          The article literally states that Ireland’s department of transport lowered the default rural road limits for the country in February, that’s exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.

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            8 hours ago

            You’re responding to a comment using Swiss speed limits as an example. Here in Switzerland changes in the speed in an urban area do not cause changes in rural areas.

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              7 hours ago

              And you’re commenting in a thread about Ireland, so I used a more relevant example. Nonetheless, I expect even Switzerland has things like country wide default speed limits and has its rural road speed limits set by a group in cities or at least the regional centres rather than each village getting to freely choose its own for the roads around it.

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            15 hours ago

            The article literally states that Ireland’s department of transport lowered the default rural road limits for the country in February, that’s exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.

            No. The article states that URBAN is speed limit is set at 30km/h. RURAL road is already limited to 60km/h.

            By rural they are talking about roads that are not within limits of cities. Note that town/city limits are much more defined in Europe. Usually the last house at the edge of town defines the end of the urban area and the beginning of the rural area.

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              14 hours ago

              RURAL road is already limited to 60km/h.

              That is what I said, yes. The point was that rural people in the same country as this urban change have already had their roads affected by people who don’t live near and use said roads.

              Edit: The relevant quote from the linked article:

              In February, the default speed limits on rural local roads decreased from 80km/h to 60km/h.

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                14 hours ago

                How are they not affected? No one lives on rural roads. Everyone lives on urban roads. Rural roads are for driving between urban areas.