Yes, but these fines are applied only to Virginia citizens... You live in Maryland and want to go 90 through I-81: you'll get picked up for speeding and a $200-300 fine. If you're a Virginian, the cop has the lattitude to make it $3,000. Now maybe you think that's fine... You can also get one of the egregious fines for failing to use your turn-signal... but only if you're a resident. People from Maryland, DC, WVA need not worry.
Governor Kaine must feel that this will pass long before he needs to find another job in the state, so he can ignore it, because it will only impact perhaps 2% of the population, but this kind of selective taxation really is just another galling practice emerging from liberal legislators (whether Democrat or Republican).
>Governor Kaine must feel that this will pass long before he needs to find another job in the state, so he can ignore it, because it will only impact perhaps 2% of the population,<
I disagree. When you have Virginians trying to use THEIR roads, with people from out of state who are using the roads by different rules, you will have more innocent people injured.
The last time I got on I-81, I got behind a slow moving truck. I got in the left lane to pass and some horse’s backside from another state was pushing me with his front bumper. It took me a bit longer to pass the truck, because I stayed at 65, unlike the foreigner behind me.