Maine: A new tactic on the highways

MAINETODAY.com ^ | 11-03-04 | GRACE MURPHY

[been_lurking]

It's the same old same old--set the speed limit below what people drive, and rake in the cash. Nice racket.

Don't do the crime if you can't pay the fine. Simple enough.

[cp124]

Maine's only remaining industry.

[tubebender]

That's a stop every 2.5 minutes. Is he using a Dual Prossessor G5 to write the tickets...

[Little Bill]

Chase cars.

[Dan from Michigan]

Ticker for 77? That's nothing.

[Travis McGee]

Man, they'd be busy on the I-5 between San Diego and LA

The entire 1,000 car wolfpack you are in is going 80!

[Poohbah]

The entire 1,000 car wolfpack you are in is going 80!

Until you catch up to some blue-hair who can barely see over the dashboard of her Medicare Monster, and you're down to 35...

[Travis McGee]

It's much worse with the slow pokes on the east coast. California drivers, given a clear freeway, generally 99.9% FLY!

[Poohbah]

Naw, you want FLY?

New Mexico. Even the bluehairs do 90, in a 1949 pickup truck (c8

[onyx]

Oh, you've seen me driving have you? ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Travis McGee]

Well, when you have a 3PM appt in LA, and you waste an hour getting past Oceanside, you tend to make up for it passing Pendleton and Capistrano. VROOOOOM!!!!!

[proud_member_of_ VRWC]

Hey now... Slow pokes on the east coast? Been around Virginia lately? We're the absolute worst for having lead feet. Not that it's anything to be proud of. If you want to see real east coast slow pokes, go to pennsylvania. There, they preach "defensive driving", aka avoid an accident at all costs. Funny that a state that preaches that sort of driving STILL manages to have one of the highest auto-accident fatality rates.

[Travis McGee]

I find the east coast has too many slow pokes lurking in the middle and left lanes to permit California style 80MPH wolfpacks. I'm talking about going 30-40 miles in medium heavy traffic, one of 100s of cars separated by mere car lengths, and NOBODY is doing less than 75, and most are going faster than 80.

On the east coast, the slowpokes continually stop the wolfpack, forcing everybody to brake and get around.

[Travis McGee]

Picture heavy traffic between Richmod and DC, and everybody, I mean everybody, is going 80+ the whole way. That's typical SoCal driving.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Maine Alert

I only drive 64 MPH.