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Ex-Highway Patrol Officer Turned MP Says ‘Speed Up’ On Victorian Highways, But QUT Says ‘Slow Down’ In Suburban Streets

Australia’s outdated speed laws are again under the microscope, with an ex-highway patrol officer from Victoria Police, now a member of parliament, calling for a sensible discussion on the issue. State Liberal MP Bill Tilley – a Victoria Police o


Australia’s outdated speed laws are again under the microscope, with an ex-highway patrol officer from Victoria Police, now a member of parliament, calling for a sensible discussion on the issue.

State Liberal MP Bill Tilley - a Victoria Police officer for 12 years with three years served in the Highway Patrol - suggested parts of the Hume Highway in Victoria could be suitable for a 130km/h speed limit, pending further installation of wire-rope barriers and improvements to road shoulders. 

Mr Tilley’s electorate of Benambra takes in the northern-most section of the Hume Highway in Victoria, including a section which abruptly, and bizarrely, switches to an 80km/h speed limit for just a few hundred metres. This is the only interruption to the regular 110km/h limit on the Hume Hwy between Sydney and Melbourne.

The rest of the road, however, is ripe for a higher limit according to Mr Tilley, which would see passenger vehicles allowed to travel up to 20km/h faster than they do now when conditions were suitable.

Mr Tilley also called for a 110km/h limit on the Princes Freeway connecting Melbourne with Geelong to replace the current 100km/h limit.

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