Newsgroups: ont.general
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From: cebly@ai.toronto.edu (Craig Boutilier)
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <89Apr11.152406edt.38132@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <8904061731.AA21685@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> <1342@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> <1989Apr7.180040.26023@tmsoft.uucp>
Distribution: ont
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 15:24:01 EDT

In article <1989Apr7.180040.26023@tmsoft.uucp> mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) writes:
>In article <1342@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn) writes:
>>My understanding is that the legal limit is still the last white sign you
>>saw.
>Much as I might like this, and might claim it in court, I suspect the
>HTA actually says something like `the last white sign you PASSED'.  :-)

I'm not a native, but aren't there such beasts as "prima facie" speed
limits in Ontario? There certainly are in Nova Scotia, since I've
received the odd speeding ticket for exceeding these limits!
Off-ramps, city streets, and all sorts of other places have
speed limits which need not be posted. You're just supposed to
know. For instance, coming off a highway on my bike and travelling
a curved section of road (not exactly a
ramp) which led to another highway, I used the
excuse that since the speed limit on both highways was 100km/h
and no signs were posted on this road I was on, I was quite
justified in my speed (actually, it may have been a little
higher than 100:-). It didn't work, and I was charged with
exceeding the prima facie speed limit (which was 50 or 70 for
that little section).

Craig Boutilier