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Speed Limit to be cut to 50mph
Re: Speed Limit to be cut to 50mph
by Twilight » Thu 31 Jul 2008, 14:58:40
Yes, the London Underground is the worst. No air conditioning down there. Every summer there is a spate of medical emergencies when people collapse from the heat (usually compounding an existing condition). The evacuations are so well practiced, often the delay is only one or two minutes. I have seen it take a quarter of an hour on the main lines.
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Re: Speed Limit to be cut to 50mph
by Arsenal » Thu 31 Jul 2008, 15:01:12
Houses were built a whole lot different back in the day as well. We have a house that was built in the late 1880's where there is a 20 degree difference from outside to inside. Nowadays you can run the AC and still not get that difference in temp in recently built house.
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Re: Speed Limit to be cut to 50mph
by Byron100 » Thu 31 Jul 2008, 15:09:22
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Arsenal', 'H')ouses were built a whole lot different back in the day as well. We have a house that was built in the late 1880's where there is a 20 degree difference from outside to inside. Nowadays you can run the AC and still not get that difference in temp in recently built house.
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Tell me about it...my grandparent's old farmhouse was the same way. It'd be amazing how much cooler that house kept even on the hottest days. And just by running the ventilation fan to bring to bring up the cool air from the cellar into the rest of the house, it was almost like having central AC. At night, we'd run box fans in the bedroom windows to bring in the cool nighttime air. Of course, it got down into the 60's and even the 50's during the summer back in those days...it'd be not so pleasant now, I don't believe...
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Re: Speed Limit to be cut to 50mph
by Dezakin » Thu 31 Jul 2008, 15:35:29
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kokoda', 'S')lowly at first, but eventually a whole range of restrictions will have to be bought in as it becomes more obvious that oil production has peaked.
I believe thrie is already discussion about America returning to the 55 MPH limit it had during the 70s oil embargo.
I believe thrie is already discussion about America returning to the 55 MPH limit it had during the 70s oil embargo.
Not gonna happen unless congress does what it did with liquor laws and hamstrings states with funding. Really this is a state decision.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t wouldn't surprise me if we had rationing by next year.
Not bloody likely. Markets ration by price allready and tend to do it more efficiently.
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Re: Speed Limit to be cut to 50mph
by joeltrout » Thu 31 Jul 2008, 15:48:09
I think states such as California & Florida should have 55 mph limits with hefty fines ($1,000 per mph over 55). That way they could fund their state budgets with traffic fines since real estate revenue has disappeared.
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Re: Speed Limit to be cut to 50mph
by yesplease » Thu 31 Jul 2008, 23:39:52
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Valdemar', 'T')oo bad this will increase congestion and save next to nothing. And the optimal speeds for modern cars is around 70 MPH.
For fuel efficiency it tends to be ~45-65mph depending car, for traffic density it's somewhere around ~35mph since braking distance goes up according to the square of speed. In other words, if I need three car lengths to brake safely at 35mph, at 70mph I need nine, so traffic density has to decrease w/ speed.$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Professor Membrane', ' ')Not now son, I'm making ... TOAST!
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