Don't you just Love It !!
It has been one month since we have had to learn to live with the 110 kph speed limit. I think it’s fair to say that the whole country is amazed at what has happened during the past four weeks. The government said that they were imposing the lower limit as a means to conserve fuel, but we all said that if that worked the government would lose tax revenue at a time when the government needs more income. We were very suspicious that perhaps they were playing at being politically correct while expecting to reclaim the shortfall, and to make even more money in increased fines.
The way that things have turned out is that we have realised a saving in fuel consumption by driving slower, and the expected income from increased fines has not materialised, but rather it has declined by 72%. In the eyes of the government, the driving community can be so bloody irritating!
The icing on the cake is that on March 7th, the implementation date of the new speed limit, no-one, anywhere in Spain lost their life from a traffic crash on that day. Don’t you just love it?
Copyright © 2011 Eugene Carmichael
