Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
It’s all about the money: traffic law “enforcement” is never about anything other than THE MONEY.
I just got a ticket for travelling at 74 mph in a posted 55mph zone. I was the only car for miles in any direction (excepting the Jetta that blew by me like I was standing still...), the road was dry and clear, I was travelling in the far right lane of a 4 lane with 10 foot shoulders and a 12 foot wide painted meridian. Anywhere else on this earth this would be a 70+ posted road, and any reasonable human would recognize that there was no threat to anyone, but the officer thought differently.
Instead, I got an invitation to the town I had just vacated an hour ago for a court date. I can choose to go and waste 3 days of my time in a petty little court where odds are the judge is a former traffic cop and likes the position his little speed-trap town gives him (BTDTGTS), or just pay the fine.
I suppose we plebes should be grateful that the King’s Highwaymen allow us the use of the roads we pay for through our taxes.
I do think it’s a pity though that a once honorable and decent, though difficult job has become nothing more than another revenue stream for the nanny state.
Currently, Texas allows the highest legal speed limit in the country at 80 MPH.
This article ignores the fact of driving on NTTA roads - the posted speed limit is not enforced. For careful drivers, tickets don’t start until 75 or 80. (Weaving through traffic may get you a ticket at lower speed).
It also ignores the fact that the speed limits in Dallas county were lowered a few years ago on environmental grounds, not safety grounds - the same thing was done on Central, 30, and 35.
So I’d put this story in the ‘propaganda’ category.