I think what Todd was saying about reducing speed limits around work crews certainly should be taken into consideration. Generally speaking, I'm familiar with pretty much all the track in western Canada, with the exception of the track formerly owned by B.C. Rail, and my impression was that the speed limits were overall quite well designed. I didn't find any that were excessive. And while there are some areas where it seemed like the speed limit maybe was a little lower than it could be, generally speaking they seem to be pretty good. But of course that's all based on safe track, proper equipment, brakes that work properly, cars that have round wheels and not square wheels, and so on and so forth. So of course all these considerations have to relay back to the actual condition of the equipment and the track that's being used.
On April 30th, 2007. See this statement in context.