Posted on 05/01/2017 7:45:24 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
IIRC you could get a ticket for “impeding the flow of traffic” when I was a kid in California, even if you were going the speed limit.
At last, some honesty and reality. I have worked with some city governments and they treat speeding tickets (in a ridiculously low 25 mph zone on a federal route in one of their favored traps) like Gollum treated the Ring ie obsessively and greedily.
Projects, pay and pensions are all tied up in those little carbonless forms - even better for them when it’s a kangaroo mayor’s court.
I could have given the chief of police a guided tour of houses where heroin and pill trafficking was rife but that’s not an earner for them.
I actually posted this article to cast a fly into the pond for Left Lane Speed Limit Monitors. Think I’ll get a bite???
Laws designed to generate revenue
Speed limits are set to collect revenue. It is government sanctioned theft. Just like Red light cameras where the yellow light timing is slowed down so people can’t stop quickly enough. I personally do not believe politicians scamming citizens do not deserve being held to criminal prosecution. Their political groups are in on the game so maybe it is just extreme citizen arrest that will stop it.
“Almost every speed limit is too low”
Of course! Big Brother gets to grease his pockets with the income from traffic citations!
On the other hand, the speed limit could be 100 MPH on city streets and some joker would cry that he wants to do 110.
Almost without a doubt. I’m a somewhat slow driver, but I scrupulously stay in the right lane. Especially here in Texas where they will run you over.
We all speed, yet months and months usually pass between us seeing a crash,”
Not here on LI/Metro NY. Couple a day many time and with serious damage many times. The stat that only 10 percent follow speed limits ain’t true in Jersey. They have a police dept in every hamlet and town and you WILL get a ticket for 2 over. When I’m doing 25 mph in Jersey NO ONE is on my bumper or anywhere near me. They’re all way the hell back there doing 25 too.
I was with them until the seatbelt bit. It’s a good idea to wear them, making it a primary offense is bull.
DMV near me is 10MPH. It is a long road too.
Around where I live is 25 MPH is fast for this area, and yet on a major road they have reduced the limit to 60 when it was 65 for no reason , except to give tickets.
Try driving through Armada, Michigan; the whole town is posted at 25mph and ‘Sheriff Andy’ and buddies can be seen at the speed traps every day. What a a scam.
If I were the dictator that the left thinks Trump is, one decree I would make in my first week would be: “Set the speed limits at whatever you like, but speeding fines are paid to a charity of the driver’s choice, not the local/state treasury.”
Absolutely true. I first started driving in California as a teen in the early 70s. Back then, we were taught that very rule in high school driver's ed class.
The RATs have a reason for it....medical welfare parasites.
Same goes for motorcycle helmets and smoking.
I drive to and from work every day on an open, mostly straight 4 lane road with a 55 MPH limit. I usually drive around 60, so I speed every day. As I’m tooling along at 60 there is a steady stream of vehicles passing me. The only folks that are a danger to anyone else are the ones I see talking and texting while driving - speed is not the issue.
I visited the Cleveland, Ohio area a couple of weeks ago. I have never seen so many roads with an artificially low 25 mph speed limit. Roads that would be 35-45 in normal states, and in normal parts of Ohio itself.
Obviously, they’re artificially low for the purpose of revenue collection.
One of my earliest disputes on FR was with someone who was convinced that speed limits were handed down from God himself (he wasn’t clear on the libertarian ethos of FR, apparently). He claimed that if everyone studiously drove the speed limit then most if not all accidents would cease and that traffic would flow more smoothly.
Then some students in the Atlanta area made a timely video entitled ‘A Meditation On The Speed Limit’ in which they did exactly that: drove the exact speed limit in every lane on a typically busy Atlanta highway. As you’ve probably already guessed, absolute chaos followed with backups (even more than usual), horns blowing, cursing, and people doing insane things on the shoulder and median to get around the ‘pace cars.’
I linked to the video and our plastic FReeper didn’t have much of an answer to it.
With the new release of the 600—700 HP muscle cars. It makes me wonder why would anyone buy something you can never legally get out of first gear.
And don’t forget the people who all want stop signs on the corner next to their house to slow down the speeders.
I swear we would have a 4 way stop on every corner in town if these idiots had their way.
Just like speed limits, there are engineering driven justification for stop signs. And none of them mention a justification being “because the mayor’s grand kids live on that street.”
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