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"Unfortunately, misinformation abounds and traffic enforcement seems to be more about revenue than safety."

How true that is. Just pay your lawyer $250 plus court costs, and the ticket magically disappears. As long as you pay into the system, you won't be punished severely. I have to admit $250 plus court costs is cheap compared to a spike in insurance premiums.

Sounds like somebody who recently got a ticket. There is truth in this post though.

I've had more than one police officer tell me they won't pull anybody going less than 10 mph over the speed limit. Used to be 7. Now it's 10.

What's the point. I believe speed limits should be fairly set. Speeding should be captured by electronic devices and tickets issued much like our old redlight cameras used to do.

If the person is clearly speeding, no amount of payoff to a lawyer should get them out of it.

Nitpicker,

"Speeding should be captured by electronic devices and tickets issued much like our old redlight cameras used to do."

Will you also have cameras on every street corner so the government can watch your every move?

nittyhoneybaby!

have you turned socialist?

cops should have to be able to run and catch up with the vehicle.

no fat chicks with badges on...

"Will you also have cameras on every street corner so the government can watch your every move".

They already do, Paul. The cameras are in your televisions and computer monitors and up in the sky orbiting the earth. Equipment for picking up sound is in your currency and cell-phones.

What about all that gas we would be wasting by going so fast? Don't get me wrong; I love to drive fast, even when I don't need to do so. But I have tried to be more responsible about conservation since gas prices have gone up so much.

The other place where I agree with the LTE writer is that many of the speed limits were put into place decades ago, when radial tires, ABS, 4 wheel disk brakes, etc. were rare or non-existent. I am not saying we should all drive crazy but let's face it -- most of us have driven parts of Wendover at 60 mph, along with everyone else, and it is perfectly safe at most times of the day. The other times you're lucky if you can do 25. It's the same way with most roads.

Back in the early 1970's, before Nixon and the early neo-con's foisted the 55 mph idiocy on us (and the libertarians developed the radar detector in response to it), the speed limits on interstates in some states e.g. Florida were higher during the day than during the night, and almost everywhere cars were able to drive 5 to 10 mph faster than trucks. I am all for raising the speed limits, and for heaven's sake, timing the lights on Wendover so that you are not caught on every block (I know they say that this is already done, but they're not set at the right speed. The speed should vary with the time of day/traffic density, and computerized radio signals (another not exactly breakthrough technology) could be used to do it.) Only problem is -- how are we going to get the road hogs and the little old ladies out the left lane?

The other place where I agree with the LTE writer is that many of the speed limits were put into place decades ago, when radial tires, ABS, 4 wheel disk brakes, etc. were rare or non-existent. I am not saying we should all drive crazy but let's face it -- most of us have driven parts of Wendover at 60 mph, along with everyone else, and it is perfectly safe at most times of the day. The other times you're lucky if you can do 25. It's the same way with most roads.

Back in the early 1970's, before Nixon and the early neo-con's foisted the 55 mph idiocy on us (and the libertarians developed the radar detector in response to it), the speed limits on interstates in some states e.g. Florida were higher during the day than during the night, and almost everywhere cars were able to drive 5 to 10 mph faster than trucks. I am all for raising the speed limits, and for heaven's sake, timing the lights on Wendover so that you are not caught on every block (I know they say that this is already done, but they're not set at the right speed. The speed should vary with the time of day/traffic density, and computerized radio signals (another not exactly breakthrough technology) could be used to do it.) Only problem is -- how are we going to get the road hogs and the little old ladies out of the left lane?

The other place where I agree with the LTE writer is that many of the speed limits were put into place decades ago, when radial tires, ABS, 4 wheel disk brakes, etc. were rare or non-existent. I am not saying we should all drive crazy but let's face it -- most of us have driven parts of Wendover at 60 mph, along with everyone else, and it is perfectly safe at most times of the day. The other times you're lucky if you can do 25. It's the same way with most roads.

Back in the early 1970's, before Nixon and the early neo-con's foisted the 55 mph idiocy on us (and the libertarians developed the radar detector in response to it), the speed limits on interstates in some states e.g. Florida were higher during the day than during the night, and almost everywhere cars were allowed to drive 5 to 10 mph faster than trucks. I am all for raising the speed limits, and for heaven's sake, timing the lights on Wendover so that you are not caught on every block (I know they say that this is already done, but they're not set at the right speed. The speed should vary with the time of day/traffic density, and computerized radio signals (another not exactly breakthrough technology) could be used to do it.) Only problem is -- how are we going to get the road hogs and the little old ladies out of the left lane?