Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!geovision!pt
From: pt@geovision.uucp (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <600@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 13:02:56 GMT
References: <8904061731.AA21685@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> <1342@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> <1989Apr7.180040.26023@tmsoft.uucp> <1989Apr9.051842.2600@ziebmef.uucp>
Reply-To: pt@geovision.UUCP (Paul Tomblin)
Distribution: ont
Organization: GeoVision Corp, Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 34

In article <1989Apr9.051842.2600@ziebmef.uucp> mdfreed@ziebmef.UUCP (Mark Freedman) writes:
>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'.  :-)
>   ***THAT*** explains why speed-limit signs are usually located behind trees, billboards or, if available, mailboxes :-)

Actually, as well as signed speed limits, there are also defaults.  I forget
the actual numbers, but a rural road without speed limit signs is considered
to have a speed limit of 80km/h, and an urban road has a default of 
50km/h.  I guess that means if you turn off one type on to another, the
speed limit is no longer controlled by the last sign you saw, but rather
by the default limit for the new type, until you see otherwise.

Special Disclaimer:
Just because I spent 5 years in Highway design for the Ministry of
Transportation and Communications doesn't mean I understand or even obey
the HTA!

As a followup to another thread of this discussion:
Why is it that anybody who doesn't drive like you is an idiot.  I.e. I
think people a) who don't move over the the furthest right lane they can,
b) who don't signal, and c) who don't make use of opportunities are idiots. 
Other people probably think I'm a) a speed demon, b) crazy (because I
assume you're going to do what you are saying you're going to do), and 
c) pushy.

-- 
Paul Tomblin,  First Officer, Golgafrinchan B Ark       | PANIC - Bad Neuron
    UUCP:   nrcaer!cognos!geovision!pt ??               | address list.
    Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here aren't      | "My brain hurts"
    necessarily even mine!                              |