Posted on 08/30/2014 7:27:19 AM PDT by bamahead
I wondered how long it would take for someone to say that.
There is NO WAY that could have gone on for 40 years, not even one year, and the town officials not have known.
The state should cancel the town’s charter.
It never seemed like an obvious speed trap to me, though I was well aware of its reputation and drove very carefully in city limits. I think of a speed trap as a 65 mph road, come over a hill and the speed limit abruptly drops to 35. Or there's a speed limit sign that is "accidentally" sited where it's obscured by brush. Or there's a ludicrous speed limit, like 10 mph.
The main road the Waldo is US 301, though 24 branches off in town. I assume 301 is where most of the tickets are issued.
What should be remembered is that 301 is of the category of road that is the most dangerous of all. It's a divided highway, but without limited access. You have people, quite literally, backing out of their driveways onto the highway which people are booming down as if they're on an interstate. 65 mph speed limit, which means general traffic is near 75 and a lot are going 80 or more.
No controlled access, 80 mph. Gee, you think that might cause problems?
As I remember them, when you enter city limits there's perfectly good signage of a drop to 55, and a mile or so along when entering the town itself equally good signage dropping it to 45. Which isn't at all unreasonable for a town environment where people are pulling in and out of parking lots and side streets, etc.
What, should people just boom through a small town at 75 mph?
Not defending the Waldo cops or their purported lawbreaking. Just noting that in my experience the traffic laws in the town aren't at all unreasonable.
There is a 5 mph curve on Red Mountain Pass in Colorado, the first time we drove it I asked my husband if he would go slower than that. LOL
“The state should cancel the town’s charter.”
They should do the same thing to a bunch of “individually owned” towns in the Los Angeles Basin, starting with Bell and moving on to Cudahy, and a few more that have been run as private fiefdoms by “families” in each case. In these cases, it isn’t so much that the “towns” have run ticketing scams on unsuspecting travelers, but that the “residents’ have been cleaning up on the businesses that are located there. Just more examples of the corruption that exists in this country.
Whereabouts in FL is Waldo?
We need a country that serves American citizens. Instead our country serves only the status quo and establishment. We serve politicians, cops, other countries, mil-ind-complex, bankers, campaign donors, global corporations, gun control, illegals, but rarely average citizens.
Ya got me!
Post of the day.
Yes, I looked it up and found that last December I unknowingly passed through the town with the worst speed trap in the country as I drove 301 from Starke to Gainsville. Sounds like I dodged a bullet!
I’ve been in every coastal county in FL, save a few inland ones, but Waldo is fortunately one community I haven’t visited. It sounds too much like the stereotypical inland town in “Porky’s.”
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