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TOPIC: ARGUMENT18 - The following appeared in an editorial in a Prunty County newspaper.

"In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County recently lowered its speed limit from 55 miles per hour to 45 on all major county roads. But the 55 mph limit should be restored, because this safety effort has failed. Most drivers are exceeding the new speed limit and the accident rate throughout Prunty County has decreased only slightly. If we want to improve the safety of our roads, we should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths and resurfacing rough roads. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago."
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TIME: 00:26:00
DATE: 2009-12-5 10:40:56

In the editorial the author recommends restore the 55 miles per hour speed limit and undertake a kind of improvement project to improve Prunty County's highway safety. However, in my perspective, the reasons the author gives are not convincing.

Firstly, in the editorial, the author asserts that the 45 mph limit failed, so the 55 mph limit should be restored. However, when investing the reasons why the 45 mph limit failed, we find that it was not caused by the speed itself, but by the level of compliance with the limit. Since the drivers are not comply with the speed limit, it is not strange to see that the accident rate has decreased only a little. For that matter, the author can not prove that the 45 mph limit can not decrease the accident rate, what should be done is to enhance the enforcement
of the limit. If this time the adminitrants raise the limit from 45 mph to 55 mph because most drivers
are exceeding the 45 mph limit, what if most drivers exceeding the 55 mph limit? what if the average speed keeps increasing? In addition, the 55 mph limit had been proved to cause a relatively higher accident rate than the 45 mph speed lilmit.

Secondly, the reported twenty five percent decrease in accident rate in Butler can not be sufficiently proved to be caused by the improvement project. The project was completed five
years ago, however, the decrease was reported not until this past year. If the improvement project can lead to a decrease in accident rate, the twenty five percent decrease should had been reported four years ago. It is highly possible that other improvements have been made by the Butler County government, and it is the other improvements that are responsible for the decrease. In addition, without substantial evidences of the report , we have reasons to question the authencity of the reproted decrease.

Finally, the author fails to consider the differences between the Pruty County and Bulter County. In the editorial, the author asserts that the same project undertaken by Bulter will bring about the same result in Pruty. However, it highly possible that Pruty's lane widths are broad enough and the surface of its roads are also qualified. For that matter, the improvement project will not make any contribution to the safy of the roads.


What is more, the author attempts to give recommendations on improving highway safty, howoever, all the proposals and reasons he(she) gives are about major county roads. Common sense tell us that major county roads are not in the same condition with highways.

In sum, the recommendations the author gives are not convincing as they are.