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Oh I speed on local streets. But things don’t change that quickly in Tucson. We’ve got nice straight streets with wide lanes and fairly clean half mile grid on lights and good overall visibility. Trouble is easy to see coming. We also have speed limits that are just stupidly low, like where I got caught yesterday, it’s on the stop light grid, but it’s 1 x 1, a really wide 1 x 1 with enough room for a left turn lane (though without said lane) and bike lanes (has them), light traffic, 25MPH, same speed limit the pure residential streets get. I usually do 30-35 on it, yesterday having fun and hit 40 at the wrong time. Such is life.

Part of it’s the city too, everybody speeds here. Because they built the streets for 50 to 60 and give us limits of 35 and 40, and it’s a large land footprint city without a highway system. People who don’t speed here are making people mad.