Hmm . . . this is what the people wanted?
Wunderbar.
But will they contact ICE to deport the Illegal Aliens ?
This should help the lawyers. A quick $500 fee to plead down a traffic offense. (It appears that the state is getting the big money, but the locals would have to bear the cost of the prosecution. So if the city or county gets its $200-$300, and the lawyer gets $500, who cares if the state doesn’t get $1050).
Revenue ping! Looks like a fine way to raise money! I bet the troopers will be writing more tickets than ever.
It’s about safety.
$1,250 for going 78mph on an interstate highway.
That should about do it for anyone who still believed traffic enforcement has anything to do with safety or serves any purpose other than aggressive revenue grabbing. Heck, the legislators even admitted it this time.
First Webb, now this. It sure looks like the wind in Virginia is blowing toward the left.
And how do they plan on collecting from illegal aliens with their bogus driver’s licenses? My bet is they could care less just so long as the native born Americans pay up the ying yang
Look for more high speed chases in Virginia involving drivers trying to avoid hefty fines. Also, look for more jail crowding when speeders can’t come up with the first payment.
The game continues. If they wanted to fund transportation on traffic tickets it wouldn’t be too hard. I used to drive to DC every day and nearly everyone was traveling at speeds 80-90 well above the posted speed limit of 65. I think this is silly but then again I just paid 10 bucks to travel on one of the worst roads in PA the PA turnpike. lol
Unbelievable. Two GOP legislators are the sponsors.
I suspect that what we have here are a couple of lawyers from Northern Virginia who make so much money they have lost touch with the typical Virginian and have no concept of what a thousand bucks is to the average state resident.
Basically you have a little southern town which you'd have compared to Raleigh NC in 1940 having become a major metro area like NYC without any of the roads or infrastructure for it while the state capital of Virginia takes all of the highway money both state and federal and builds European autobahns in tidewater and the southwest part of the state. The ONLY thing which would save the situation is a total bypass of the Baltimore/DC/Fredericksburg region cutting out above Whitemarsh and back in below Fredericksburg, and we needed that 20 years ago, but you can forget it happening, and the stuff like that Springfield interchange which they actually are spending money on is a bandaid on cancer.
Yet another fine example of what happens when Democrats are put in charge of the Commonwealth.
Gotta say I emailed this story to the lead-footed dauther living in VA after I saw it on NRO’s “the Corner”.
Girl could be broke in about 1 day!
I found this link courtesy of WRIC Richmond.
The applicable offenses are the more egregious ones: things like reckless driving, speeding 20 mph over the limit (or over 80 mph), drunk driving, eluding the police, etc. are the ones penalized.
If you're caught going 10 over, you will just get the speeding ticket.
Donning my flame suit, I’ll say this - hefty fines and severe legal penalties keeps speeders and drunks under control in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, etc, because everyone is truly afraid of the consequences of misbehaving on the road. When it costs the equivalent of $5000 - $10000 for drunk driving plus maybe the loss of a license for a year or two, it gets their attention real good. We aren’t ready for that level of safety control in this country, we’re too rowdy for that. The tradeoff is thousands killed and maimed every year by reckless fools and drunks. Take your pick.