Originally Posted By: KGMtech
Same in Ontario. The old expression from Police was and still is: "8 over is great, 9 you're mine" (MPH not Km/h)
You have to be doing 11 over (KmH) in Saskatchewan to get a ticket ... there is no ticket available to issue for 10 KmH over. Since it's standard practice to give a 10 KmH "discount" when they write the ticket, the effective limit is 21 KmH (will write you for 11 over).
Originally Posted By: Lolvoguy
Funny, I was just discussing speed limits the other day with a friend.
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This is the complete opposite from the prairies where cops are ALWAYS ticketing. I can't count how many speeding tickets I received when living there. Since moving to the west coast, I have yet to get a ticket in 7 years (this is the cleanest my driving record has ever been!)
I won't talk about how I drive, but living in "the prairies" all of my life, I've got exactly one speeding ticket. And if the police were as bad as you suggest, I'd have hundreds. On the other hand in BC I found the opposite, RCMP setting up traps where the speed changes abruptly. Which is another thing ... the speed limits in SK are pretty much standard, you don't get all kinds of changes in 10 Km increments like in BC.
It's either 110 all the way or 80 or 50 or whatever. In my city there are only four speed limits ... 30 KmH in school zones, 50 everywhere else, some limited access roads are 60 and 90 on the freeway. That's it. Until recently there was no School Zone limit, it was 50, same as every city street.
It's funny how one person's experience can so drastically differ from another's.