speed limit on the German autobahn for more stress-FREEDOM
A skateboarding extreme sportsman alarmed police by barreling down a stretch of the German autobahn at 100 kilometers per hour. The stunt made him a YouTube star and also the target of prosecutors. see full article:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,579013,00.html
My suggestions for making the German Autobahn safer and stress-FREE are:
1. Germany should adopt finally a speed limit – like every other single state. In order to preserve the spirit of adventure the limit should be fixed at
- 200 km/h (124 mph)for cars and
- 100 km/h (62 mph) for skateboarders.
2. The traffic should change from the right to the left side of the roads. This transitions should be made gradually:
- first the heavy trucks
- then the skateboarders
- at last the rest
cutting out the autobahn
Until March 2008 I had to drive almost daily about 35 km to my office in Düsseldorf and then 35 km back in the evening. Out 35 km 22 km was autobahn driving with 100 kmph and 120 kmph speed limit and with some kilometers without speed limit. But the speed limit made no difference, since the autobahn was almost constantly crowded and jammed. It was stressful to crawl in the traffic jam with a meeting ahead and it was stressful to drive at 180 or 200kmph and then brake sharply down to 30 kmph or less. Since we moved to another town I only have to drive 8 km to my office on roads that are jammed only between 5 and 6 p.m. It gives me a definitely pleasurable feeling of relief and stressFREEDOM to hear about the traffic jams on the autobahn in the radio and not being stuck in it. No, I am not schadefroh, since I feel something like pity for the people struggling on the autobahn. Nobody stops them, of course, from moving closer to their offices and cutting out the daily autobahn-stress…
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