Posted on 09/18/2017 1:46:52 PM PDT by LibWhacker
$250 for speeding, paid by credit card.
$5,000 to $10,000 and months of court time.
Which do you chose?
Just start driving 20mph everywhere
Screw em
You can cut the Federal government completely out of the loop by eliminating the whole concept of a national transportation system. Good luck with that. There's actually a move among some members of Congress to legislate a "devolution" process that would do exactly that. The most vocal opponents of this process are Republican senators from landlocked states that would be absolutely screwed in this process.
The first national road was legislated by Congress in the very early 1800s during the Jefferson administration. There was quite a debate about the roles of the Federal and state governments in roads back then, and the Federal government won out simply because the establishment of a National Road from Baltimore to the Ohio River valley was one of the conditions under which Ohio was admitted to the Union. Even an anti-Federalist like Thomas Jefferson recognized that without road connections between the interior of North America to the cities and ports in the U.S. along the Atlantic seaboard, there was a serious danger that most of the continent would end up under the control of Great Britain.
7 hours at 55 mph = 385 miles
7 hours at 75 mph = 525 miles
140 miles difference, on a (for me) short road trip.
I often drive for as long as 14 hours so double those numbers, though my average speed usually works out to between 60 and 70.
Another reason to have a dash cam.
There is a road by my place that the speed limit changes 5 times in 6 miles, including a ONE BLOCK section that the limit is set significantly higher than on either side of it.
I will only mention the school zones that the signs are obscured the day they install them...
“They use them against the SeattLunatics on I-5 in Washington.”
Funny - I’m not sure I ever viewed those things as a speed limit sign - more just as a warning of what the traffic was like up ahead. I suppose now I should pay more attention to my actual speed! (Or not - if all the traffic is moving at 60+ the worst thing one can do is be going 50.)
It cleared up in an hour but dang, it seemed like six hours to me.
I choose to not pay a fine for “violating” an unconstitutional “law”.
It was unnerving. Afraid to move, afraid to stop. Couldn’t see a thing. Hearing but not seeing occasional crashes across the median on the eastbound lanes didn’t help.
Read more carefully. The prohibition upon ex post facto laws appears twice in the United States Constitution. Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 prohibits Congress from passing any ex post facto law, 22 while Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 applies the same limit to the States. There is no prohibition applied to counties or cities in the Constitution. It would be up to the state to impose such a limit upon smaller entities within its borders.
One more reason to have a quality dash cam.
“The point is that these funds allow many states to construct transportation infrastructure that they wouldn’t be able to afford without it.”
That is patently false. If the monies were kept in their states (lowering federal taxes), state taxes could capture it and fund the projects. Instead we get the corruption of Congress that turns federal funding into pork barrel projects and as far as fuel taxes go many of the projects it funds often have zero zip nada to do with transportation.
In theory, neither do I.
I won’t have a choice, as you seem to.
Good for you.
“There was quite a debate about the roles of the Federal and state governments in roads back then, and the Federal government won out simply because the establishment of a National Road from Baltimore to the Ohio River valley was one of the conditions under which Ohio was admitted to the Union.”
Yes the Balitmore and other east coast bankers wanted Congress to do what they could have raised the funds to do, as “opening Ohio” transportation-wise was intended to serve their eastern industrial interests. They most likely would have built their own toll roads to Ohio - floating bonds with tolls to pay for them. Getting Congress to do it added to their profits.
“Thomas Jefferson recognized that without road connections between the interior of North America to the cities and ports in the U.S. along the Atlantic seaboard, there was a serious danger that most of the continent would end up under the control of Great Britain.”
If that is what Jefferson said then he lied. How did Great Britain almost recapture the colonies in the War of 1812? Jefferson was a pacifist who had mothballed most of any U.S. Navy and further gutted the military. He had to be brow beaten in private and in public before going after the Barbary pirates with what fledgling navy we had. What was Great Britain depending on? Jefferson’s weakness.
“Thomas Jefferson recognized that without road connections between the interior of North America to the cities and ports in the U.S. along the Atlantic seaboard, there was a serious danger that most of the continent would end up under the control of Great Britain.”
If that is what Jefferson said then he lied. How did Great Britain almost recapture the colonies in the War of 1812? Jefferson was a pacifist who had mothballed 2/3rd of the U.S. Navy. Britain humiliated the U.S. in 1807 in the last year of Jefferson’s administration, setting the public outcry stage for his successor finally having no choice but to go to war in 1812 and repair the weakness that Jefferson the pacifist had created, for Britain to try to exploit.
-PJ
They have variable speed limit signs on the top end of I-285 around ATL on which I travel to work. I have yet to see anyone pay any attention to them. I have not seen speed enforcement on that stretch of road over decades. It’s simply too dangerous and would cause an instant jam if it’s not jammed already.
bfl
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