Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!lrbartram
From: lrbartram@watcgl.waterloo.edu (lyn bartram)
Newsgroups: kw.general,ont.general
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Keywords: speed limits
Message-ID: <9564@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 May 89 17:10:56 GMT
References: <852@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu> <9556@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <5880@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: lrbartram@watcgl.waterloo.edu (lyn bartram)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <5880@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> hazela@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Jose Reynaldo Setti) writes:
>
>It seems to me that MTO data collections show that the average speed
>on 401 is over 100km/h. I am not sure about that value, but 110km/h
>is what comes to my mind. So, if you just follow the traffic speed
>you'll be going over the speed limit and unless the OPP decides to
>generate the world's biggest traffic jam they won't stop and fine
>some 3,000 drivers/hour...

	Just so you don't fall into the trap of thinking "If he does
something wrong, that means i can ...": the OPP can and will stop *anyone*
for exceeding the legal speeding limit, and that could be you doing 120/kph
while everyone else is doing 140.  In practice, i drive the 401 regularly
between KW and Montreal at an average 120/kph (faster in Quebec, of course)
and have never been stopped in the past 10 years.