Yeah, it is kind of funny how many people have posted why the rules don't or shouldn't apply to them. Most of them are in the 80% who think they are in the top 5% of all drivers.
My favorites are the ones where they are saying that their speeding is someone else's fault (city, road designers, other drivers, etc). Sounds like liberal logic, doesn't it?
I tell my teenagers that being a good driver isn't about how well you control the car at high speeds. It is about how sound your judgment is to avoid trouble. Driving fast through residential areas fails that test of judgment. I'm sure someone will post that I am wrong, but they will be mistaken.
Biggest killer in Britain, drivers, driving fast in residential areas.
"My favorites are the ones where they are saying that their speeding is someone else's fault (city, road designers, other drivers, etc). Sounds like liberal logic, doesn't it?"
I don't want drivers speeding through my neighborhood either but HC has turned the main roads into parking lots where housing development has far outpacing the road development. Add to that the real speed traps on the main roads (in the areas where the traffic clears) and I find myself taking neighborhood back road as 'highway alternatives'. There are no traffic jams on these roads or cops. As far as these locals using speed guns, it is a joke. The police can only issue a warning from one of these(being that they did not witness it) , and it gets dark before 5pm anyway.
If you don't like your road being used as a highway I suggest you show up at the next county zoning meeting and organize to stop any more housing development unless the county shows how they will handle the additional traffic and school children (schools) without raising taxes(the usual method.) Hint: they can make the developer (ie new homeowners) pay.
The method now is to cram more and more people into a tiny area and then the new people cry out for more taxes to pay for the roads and schools over and over, the county steals the land from the locals for the new roads and schools. It works great for them because once they create the problem the only solution is more government spending. So up go my property and income taxes again and I can't get to work to pay them because my main roads are a parking lot with speed traps, unless I get you mad by wizzing through your neighborhood.