An online group, Safe Drivers for Efficiency, has created a petition for the Government to increase the speed limit on highways to 120 kilometres per hour (kmph.)
The petition comes one day after Works and Transport Minister Fitzgerald Hinds announced that from tomorrow police will be using speed guns to ticket offenders who go over the speed limit.
The speed limit is currently 80 kmph.
The petition, which had gained over 2,000 signatures by late yesterday evening, proposed variable speed limits.
The proposal included a 120kmph limit on long, open stretches of highway, 100kmph approaching simple highway intersections and 80kmph approaching complex highway intersection areas.
The proposal also included a limit of 60kmph at complex intersections.
The petition said modern and recent vehicles were safer in crashes at these speeds and the TTPS was now equipped and legally allowed to enforce speed limits.
It said the same 80 to 120kmph limits were presently enforced with radar guns and cameras in Spain where road maintenance and conditions are similar to this country’s.
“We are not advocating lawlessness but are lobbying for reasonable modernisation of our laws. The reality is that thousands of people in Trinidad & Tobago have been safely commuting for decades at 100 to 120kmph on average.”