[Texasforever]

Now see? I laid out facts and you come back with emotion. The 55 MPH was a lot like illegal immigration, it was not enforceable. No one paid any attention to it and the Feds were not about to raise taxes to pay for state resources to enforce it. Nice try though.

[Marak]

Not enforceable? What you mean is that not every speeder was caught and ticketed. There is a great difference between that and your statement.

Just how many speeding tickets do you think were issued by the states under the 55 MPH limit?

A heck of a lot more that 8-14 million.

The point being made was that the task could be accomplished through leverage. Regardless of how many speeders were caught or not caught, the states changed their laws. That eliminates the barrier of state laws that you specified.

As for the state and local agencies actually enforcing those new laws, pressure can be brought on a local level. It can be done. The real questions is do we want to do it.