Virginia Introduces $3550 Speeding Ticket

www.thenewspaper.com ^ | 6/21/2007

[Political Junkie Too]

Other six-point convictions include "failing to give a proper signal,"

So, are they going to start taxing the seniors who leave their turn signals blinking for miles and miles? Why not just confiscate the cars? They're probably only worth the cost of the tax anyway.

-PJ

[Brilliant]

Yep. It’s just a tax on speeding. Good luck with it VA.

[microgood]

Led by state Delegate David B. Albo (R-Springfield), lawmakers slipped a driver responsibility tax into a larger transportation funding bill signed by Governor Tim Kaine (D) in April.

Both parties have declared war on their citizens. Time to get the torches and pitchforks out.

[Hi Heels]

85mph and you've little control. One doggie in the road, and you're gonna roll it. Maybe luck out and smash into a family of 6 coming the other way from the county fair.

A $3550 speeding ticket is absurd. But to make the statement "As little as 15MPH over the speed limit" is just as absurd. What's the point of having a speed limit at all if there's that kind of spread that's acceptable.

[from occupied ga]

On a highway marked 70MPH, AS LITTLE would be 85MPH. That's just stupid.

You obviously don't drive much on throughways Here in Shirleyville (formerly known as Atlanta) the speed limit on expressways is the odious 55. When the traffic is not parked, which it is about 7 hours a day, the average speed runs about 75

[Hi Heels]

Unless you’re traveling .85mph on that road from hell.

[Fudd Fan]

Guess the slogan needs fixing...

"Virginia is for Lovers money-grabbing politicans"

[Brilliant]

I guess this means that Corzine had better stay in NJ.

[JSDude1]

Old Dominion needs to buck off these northern virgina, and liberal invaders..again!

[Hi Heels]

Nah. I never drive on highways. I live in L.A.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I drive I-44 into Tulsa from the Show Me on a regular basis. Speed limit is 75 with a cement barrier in the median which prevents "Smoky" from hiding with instant on radar.
About six months ago, I was crusing at 85-90 and suddenly noticed a patrolman right on my bumper. I moved to the right lane and he went by with a wave at 100.

[Triggerhippie]

On an empty, three lane wide, 20 mile long stretch of straightaway on a sunny day, with a modern car packed full of safety features since the national mandated 55mph limit?

Empty, three lane road on a sunny day, huh? I've been driving a damned long time and have never seen one. Even if I did, the safety features packed into my modern car aren't designed to operate effectively at 85 mph...

Save that kind of driving for the pros (whose safety gear *is* designed to function at 80+ mph).

[Political Junkie Too]

Yep. It’s just a tax on speeding.

Other six-point convictions include "failing to give a proper signal," "passing a school bus" or "driving with an obstructed view." The same $1050 assessment applies, but the conviction remains on the record for eleven years.

-PJ

[from occupied ga]

Nah. I never drive on highways. I live in L.A.

I figured as much from your post.

[Fudd Fan]

Those of us in NJ wish he’d get the heck out.

[jpl]

And if this law gets people to slow down enough to the point where it isn't raising the desired amount of revenue, they'll probably just lower the speed threshold even further.

I never thought I would live to see the day when our government at all levels would begin to morph into an out-of-control dictatorship, but it's happening right in front of my very eyes.

[aruanan]

At least they are honest about it.

So's the robber who says, "Your money or your life." Both are still parasites on society.

[misterrob]

We have no republicans here....only various shades of democrat.

[fremont_steve]

All true - but interestingly, I happened to look at my registration fees for my 1997 F250 pickup. $230 by the way. Well - there is an owner responsibility fee sitting there - this sounds like CA already has this nonsense!

[F.J. Mitchell]

Government; Federal, State, county, city, has become a glutinous repulsively obese monster, that gobbles up everything we earn and gives us nothing in return except the stinking manure it expels.

FEED ME! FEED ME! FEED ME! MONEY! MONEY! MONEY!

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could reverse the digestive tract of government, and shove the manure back up it’s Anus and have it puke up our money?