Ind. trooper lauded as 'hero' for citing 'slowpoke' driver

pnichols wrote:
Why is it that if "speed differential is the problem" ... the conversation ALWAYS winds up going somewhere like "the at or under the speed limit drivers should for safety speed up to match those going over the speed limit?

How about the other way around .... the gas pedal can be lifted as well as depressed.

Where do the Over-The-Limiters think speed limits come from? I guess they think that highway engineers know nothing and are wasting tax payers' dollars ... might as well fire them all. Yeah .... let's move onward and upward to vehicle speed anarchy where drivers can do as they please speed-wise all the time, everywhere.

Turn the nervous system jitters down a notch, relax, listen to some music, and start respecting a bit more what highway engineers do.

The highway engineer in our bunch already explained why people won’t always slow down...it’s not always the correct answer (i.e. the 85 percentile guideline). Speed anarchy...lol. Nice exaggeration. If you want to suggest changing 85 percent of the population’s behavior to suit yours, you’re in for a frustrating exercise.

Speed limits come from all kinds of places, some without proper engineering. The small town near me turned a major road into a 20mph school zone for over 9 blocks. The school’s completely fenced ball field touches 1/2 of a block of road frontage. When I wrote the city, I was told they didn’t have money for the engineering study (that I showed them was suggested by the state that they do) and that I could pay for one myself if I wanted.

Yes, some roads require a little enforcement to bring the top speeders back into line.