$1,000 Speeding Tickets Proposed For Boulder

Denver Channel ^ | December 22, 2004 | Staff

[MississippiMasterpiece]

Getting caught speeding Boulder, Colo., could cost you big time, if the City Council's plan to increase traffic fines gets final approval.

If you're caught speeding 4 to 19 mph over the posted speed limit, you'll pay $500 and if you are speeding at 20 mph or more over the posted speed limit, you'll be slapped with a $1,000 ticket.

The current rates, which haven't been increased since 1982, are $100 and $300 respectively.

Tickets for street racing or eluding police would jump from $300 to $1,000 under the proposal that is expected to get preliminary approval Wednesday night.

City officials said the hefty fines will give judges more bargaining power when they accept plea bargains and they hope will make motorists think twice before breaking the law.

[hosepipe]

Fines ARE taxes.. so are licenses.. and permits even..
We got a SPEED TRAP comin up folks.. Bolder Colorado..
Slowin down to a crawl.. might get fined for THAT TOO..

Them Coloradans sure do LOVE taxes.. not as much as Mexiforians but more than Mexi-zonians, or New Mexicans... but them sheeple just LOVE git themselves sheard..

HOO-Wee hide your wallets folks, case we git stopped..

[Centurion2000]

All of those things are accurate ~ that still doesn't stop us from driving the posted speed limit. :)

I learned long ago ... take 5 .... 10 in a pinch ... any more is risking a ticket.

And watch the road like an infantryman. If you see someplace that is a good ambush site, sure enough there is a highwayman ... oops ... a highway patrol officer, waiting to radar you and make off with revenue.

[ApesForEvolution]

Thrill Seeker Adrenaline Main Liner BTTT :) Merry Christmas

[OKIEDOC]

Just more Police Abuse and Political Correctness.
Boulder is way left of center so I say raise their freeking tickets to 10% of their annual before tax salary.

Just like they do in some Scandinavian liberal countries. Colorado may be a RED state but they have pockets of resistance better know as left wing idiocy.

[ApesForEvolution]

Liberal outposts in Jesusland are doomed...heheheheheeee

[blackie]

Oregon has radar, too ~ I'm retired and in no hurry and usually drive very close (except on the twisty back roads on my bike and there I keep it under 130mph) to the speed limit.

My wife uses the cruise control in town when driving her SUV; it's funny to see someone using the cruise control at 30mph. :):):)

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

I don't agree with singling out people just because they have Mexican heritage. You can use other criteria like credit rating, driving record, arrests, employment, etc. to screen out the dirtbags, whatever their descent. I know plenty of Hispanic people who deserve insurance much more than a lot of Mayflower-derived scum. (A couple of my relatives come to mind in the latter category.)

Well like I said, I don't know the details, but that's what I heard from the "grapevine".....a.k.a. my mother. The insurance agent has been doing business with my family for decades and I'm pretty sure he did all that stuff. Plus, insurance agent guys take the "intangibles" into consideration too, of course.

Not to discriminate or anything, but Mexican drivers and their behaviors are a simple fact of life where I live.

[Goldwater4ever]

Following your logic, the blind and infants have the right to drive a Hummer on the interstate or on the sidewalk for that matter.

[chris1]

Its so easy - we citizens are yutzes and easy targets. They know we will pay and not putt up a fight.

Do you think most cops want a fight an armed drug dealer??? Those odds are far worse than giving you or I a stupid ticket so that they can meet their performance goal, oh I mean quotas.

[coloradan]

They have just as much right to drive hummers as they did to ride horses 200 years ago. Do you care to address the substance of my post?

[Goldwater4ever]

Your question: "Where in the Constitution is the power for any government agency to regulate private transportation spelled out? "

The answer: Article 1, Section 8, clause 3.

[Goldwater4ever]

Owning a gun is a right explicitly provided for under the Second Amendment.
Owning real property (a house) is a right under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. One could also include the Third Amendment.

Perhaps you should read the United States Constitution.

[Fresh Wind]

Gee, that sounds like socialism, doesn't it?

[coloradan]

Your question: "Where in the Constitution is the power for any government agency to regulate private transportation spelled out? "

The answer: Article 1, Section 8, clause 3.

Which states: "The Congress shall have power... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"

Sorry, I'm not one who reads everything and anything into the interstate commerce clause. I guess you are, though. Please tell me exactly how riding a horse from here to the next town, or driving a car likewise, constitutes "interstate commerce."

[Pahuanui]

Well, here in CA we can already give out tickets for $1000 for driving w/out insurance, throwing a burning item from a car, and a few others.

Hey, here's an idea: how about not speeding? How about changing the law to increase the speed limits?

Sheesh, I may actually look forward to the next speeder I pull over.

[Goldwater4ever]

Instead of spoon feeding you, why not go to www.oyez.org. In the alternative, I charge $325 an hour to the general public and $125 an hour to conservatives.

Have a Merry Christmas

[coloradan]

Two interesting attitudes you have there, one, the idea that you can sell your services on a discussion forum (incidentally in a very condescending way, not great salesmanship) and another to read into the interstate commerce clause everything a big-government liberal would, while nevertheless representing yourself as a limited-government "conservative." Odd.

[Nik Naym]

"It is a simple fact that failing to obey the traffic laws puts your life in peril, it also places other drivers lives in jeopardy."

Oh really? Simple fact eh?

So, if I go 61 mph in a 60 mph zone, I am putting lives in peril, but if I go 60 every one is so much safer? After all, at 61 in a 60 zone I am failing to obey traffic laws. I mean, as you said, it "it is a simple fact".

Truth is, many speed limits are arbitrarily set. How many times have you seen a speed limit suddenly drop 10 MPH simply because you crossed a county line? I see it all the time. Same road, same conditions, just different politics.

This is not about safety, it is about milking the citizenry of as much of their hard earned cash as possible.

Nik

[Nik Naym]

I almost forgot:

ALSO: driving is NOT a privilege. It IS a right. I PAY for the roads, I have every RIGHT to use them. As far as it not being pointed out in the constitution, well, I guess you don't understand what the constitution is.

Nik