Another speed trap shut down
Arlington Heights, Hamilton county, Ohio, disbanned its whole police force, after 2 City Clerks were caught taking over 260,000.00 from the proceeds of the speed trap, they operated, on one mile stret...
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I will join in. I see a lot of confusing reckless driving with speeding, ie over a posted number.
Reasonable and prudent should be the Law as it was in Tn until 1955. I knew, of one sign still up, that said resume safe speed, after leaving a small town.
Then Gerald Ford sat speed limits at 55. Anything 70 or over was now reckless driving. Now speed limits on Interstates here are 70 and 80 is permitted, in most places. Only the numbers changed based on politics,not safe speeds.
Reasonable and Prudent, for the conditions needs to be once again the law of the land.
In small town and communities it needs to be lower but not 20mph on a divided 5 lane hwy. That is a designed money or speed trap.
Those entrapments and traps don't just cost fines they can wreck insurance rates.
Many years ago we stopped an idea to turn our road through the community into a money maker. So I know for fact it does happen.
Today's new left lane cars feel like 40 at triple digits and stop shorter, than the cars, of the sixties doing 30.
That is just hardware that can safely operate at the 80-85 mph speeds and over in some places. That is safety.
Everyone operating a vehicle with consideration of everyone else on the road, is safety. Everyone going the same rate of flow or speed is safety. Being an obstacle is reckless. Racing through traffic is reckless. 75 in a 70 is not reckless, road conditions permitting.
The problem is speed limits set to revenues, and or demands by Business Owners and Porch Sitters, to slow traffic flow, to suit their desires, not safety concerns it seems a majority of the time.
Some locations a 20mph speed limit is reasonable, such a school zone, but tickets for 21 mph are simply to fill coffers.
Reckless Driving can be at any speed, which is what most seem trying to address.
Reasonable and prudent should be the Law as it was in Tn until 1955. I knew, of one sign still up, that said resume safe speed, after leaving a small town.
Then Gerald Ford sat speed limits at 55. Anything 70 or over was now reckless driving. Now speed limits on Interstates here are 70 and 80 is permitted, in most places. Only the numbers changed based on politics,not safe speeds.
Reasonable and Prudent, for the conditions needs to be once again the law of the land.
In small town and communities it needs to be lower but not 20mph on a divided 5 lane hwy. That is a designed money or speed trap.
Those entrapments and traps don't just cost fines they can wreck insurance rates.
Many years ago we stopped an idea to turn our road through the community into a money maker. So I know for fact it does happen.
Today's new left lane cars feel like 40 at triple digits and stop shorter, than the cars, of the sixties doing 30.
That is just hardware that can safely operate at the 80-85 mph speeds and over in some places. That is safety.
Everyone operating a vehicle with consideration of everyone else on the road, is safety. Everyone going the same rate of flow or speed is safety. Being an obstacle is reckless. Racing through traffic is reckless. 75 in a 70 is not reckless, road conditions permitting.
The problem is speed limits set to revenues, and or demands by Business Owners and Porch Sitters, to slow traffic flow, to suit their desires, not safety concerns it seems a majority of the time.
Some locations a 20mph speed limit is reasonable, such a school zone, but tickets for 21 mph are simply to fill coffers.
Reckless Driving can be at any speed, which is what most seem trying to address.
