Tom Elliott has a theory as to why speed limits are being slashed in inner Melbourne.
Also today the City of Stonnington wants will cut the speed limit on Chapel Street to thirty k's an hour, and quite a few other streets it's going to be cut as well. Where I live, the People's Republic of Yara, a lot of streets in our thirty k's an hour. I think we're being penny wise and pound foolish. Yere all the people behind the reduced speed limits keep saying, oh, well, you know, if a pedestrian is hit and the car is only doing thirty, they're much more likely is survived than if the car was doing fifty, which is true. But the recent road toll stats, when you drill into them, say that sixty percent of our road toll at the moment is occurring on rural roads. Right, So you've got a small proportion of the population that lives in rural Victoria, but it's sixty percent of the road desk. We're not seeing pedestrians mowed down in any city suburbs like along Chapel Street in Stonnington and yarraw and yet we do nothing about the urban or sorry, the regional and rural road toll. But we sit there cutting speed limits, cutting speed limits, cutting speed limits in inner suburbs. We're trying to pretenders though that's where the carnage is taking place. Now. My theory is that the speed limits are being cut into Melbourne, not actually to reduce the road toll, which, as I said, is largely a thing in rural Victoria. It's said, we've been done to raise revenue. You love the speed limits, more people exceed them. You can measure that with cameras and then you can send them a fine in the mail. We'll look at that later on too, one Unble, three, six, nine and three. But again, if people were serious about doing something about the road toll, we'd be focusing our efforts on rural and regional Victoria, where at best fifteen to twenty percent of our population lives, but it's sixty percent of our road death. That's where the problem is. Not along Chapel Street in the city of Donnington