From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   >On Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:50:10 PM UTC-4, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
      
   >>But that guarantees speeders.   
      
   >Motorists will speed regardless of the road they're on, be it a narrow   
   >windy mountain road, a local residential street with kids playing, or a   
   >real expressway.   
      
   The issue I'm raising is that roadway design should dictate speed,   
   not speed limit signs. If you want 45 mph travel, don't build 12 foot   
   wide lanes and curves with generous radii.   
      
   >That's the psychological nature of motorists.  They're quite fervent   
   >about it--go see their responses on the highway newsgroup.   
      
   I know, hancock. That's why you do it with roadway design, not speed   
   limit signs.   
      
   >As a side note, master highway builder Robert Moses was strictly opposed   
   >to high speed limits.  His original parkways were NOT for speed and had   
   >low limits.  But motorists groups sued in the 1950s and forced him to   
   >raise his speed limits.   
      
   He was right about a few things, although dead wrong about the entire   
   "Let's build pleasure drives for wealthy people at taxpayers' expense"   
   concept, and don't call them "his parkways" as taxpayers paid for them.   
      
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