So the village is supposed to let nonresidents speed through the town?
Yeah, that’s the answer.
Maybe better signage is needed but many drivers do need to slow down.
A better law would be that any town is only allowed to have a certain percentage of its income from traffic fines. Beyond that point, all money goes to the state coffers.
Do you understand what the concept of a speed trap is?
Regardless of the chiefs denials because of his perceived technicalities of difference, this is a textbook case of a speed trap.
The cops only exst to collect revenue. Another dead giveaway its a speed trap.
All the other cop shops in the area agree and declare what they are doing is wrong.
Its abuse of power. The average ticket is 125 dollars.
A 64 acre burg writes 4300 tickets a year? Speed trap.
You do not get wat a speed trap is.
Our local Rep was caught in one of these village speed traps on the way to the state capitol. He was able to get a law passed that did limit income. This was in the 1990s.
I agree. Simply add “Reduced speed ahead” signs. And if people are dumb enough to keep ripping thru, then a ticket it is. If there isn’t a warning, that’s wrong to me.
In Google Maps Street view, you can see a “reduced speed 25 ahead” sign followed by One, two, three, 25 speed limit signs, going north on Brice Rd. ... through Brice, of course.
So I say fair is fair. Especially if the chief is sincere that you have to be going 35 to get snagged. ... And what’s $125 these days? Dinner for 4 at Outback, maybe. Live and learn.
Your ignorance is breathtaking! Why don’t you go over to the village and try your hand at getting through without a ticket!
“Maybe better signage is needed ...”
Picked up on that, too, did ya?
I’m thinkin’ maybe a couple a grand in new signage a half mile up the road in either direction ... yaknow, the typical “25MPH ZONE AHEAD” sort of thing that’s COMMON all over the country...
Until those signs go in, though — saying this little zit on the map ISN’T a “speed trap” is nothing more than a sneering bit of chicanery with the exact verbiage. Yeah, so, what they’re doing doesn’t fit the *EXACT* terms of the definition; it for SURE fits the spirit of the definition.