Bob Myers Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 So how fast DO you go on the libramiento so as not to get to be the leader of the parade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusMactavish Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 40 to the tech school and 60 the rest. Too old to care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaponicsman Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 You kind of need to be able to read the traffic. The lady of the house keeps a blindfold in the glove-box just for when I drive on the Libramiento, but uses it occasionally on Rt 80 with the 5,000 ft drop-offs and no shoulder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Berca Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 I go between 60 and 80 and just ignore the crazy, useless speed limit signs, as does almost everyone else. Don't really want to go that fast, but tired of getting honked at and passed by everyone when I go much less. In over 12 years I have never seen the police stop anyone there or even show a presence on that road. Sad and sometimes scary. It is a gold mine for speeding tickets if they ever enforced them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrm30655 Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 I decided years ago that there is something about seeing tail lights that drives Mexicans crazy. No matter how fast you go, someone will pass you, preferably on a hill or a blind curve. Until the cameras started showing up, speed limits were just suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudgirl Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 There's a joke- If you lined up all the cars on the planet end to end, some Mexican would try to pass. Even Mexicans find it funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Berca Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 Only the ones that are still alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil in mexico Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 I do what many Mexicans do in most traffic situations whatever we can get away with !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerhead Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 I drove the libramiento today and was amazed by the speed signs coming from Chapala to ajijic going from 40 to 30 to 60 to 30 to 50 to 30 to 40 I think. I would have been rear ended several times if I had slowed that fast to comply. Just had to keep up with traffic kind of. Thought we were told to expect speed traps set up on the libramiento shortly. While driving over the set limit in all the speed zones to keep up with traffic I was still being past several times and had to break to allow a passer to break in b/4 oncoming traffic. I use to love dodgem car at the carnivals but this is a little much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cedros Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 I counted 10 different speed signs on that short stretch. And part way along they have that crazy traffic light that flashes red and orange. Nothing in the rule book as to what it is supposed to mean. They put one at the western entrance to Jocotepec also. Red flashing is supposed to mean stop and then proceed when clear. Orange flashing means caution. So which is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibarra Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 Como Mexico no hay dos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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