Speed Cameras

They love their speed cameras here. Every few km there is a big sign warning that speed cameras are in use. I don’t know how many cameras there are, but there sure are lots of signs.

I have been trying to drive the speed limit to 5 km over, but it is not easy. It is not bad on open highway where you can set the cruise and relax, except for going down steep hills. But it is difficult going through populated areas. It seems that there is a speed change every few hundred metres. From 100 on the highway, you might slow to 80, then 70, 60, 50, then 70, 80, 60, 90, 60, 50, 80, 70, 90, and finally 100. There are so many speed changes in a short distance that you sometimes forget what the last one was. You come off the highway, so you feel that you are going slowly. As you drive an unfamiliar car from the wrong side and on the wrong side of the road, watching for traffic, pedestrians, directional signs, street signs, and, maybe even to see some of the town, the speed creeps up on you without you noticing. You aim for 60-65 in the 60 zone, but when you look down, you are doing 72. I have tried using cruise, but much of the time you are on hills and the speed still creeps past the limit on the down side. And, when you are in traffic, you just get the cruise set when you get behind somebody going slower and have to turn it off anyway. Then, the next thing you know, you have lost the guy and the speed is creeping up again. I hope that the rental car company won’t have a pile of speeding ticket charges on my credit card when we turn the car in!