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

pnichols wrote:

wnjj wrote:
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.

That's one of the types of thinking where anarchy comes from .... "We don't like the restriction and/or where it came from .... so to heck with us complying with it."

Did you mean to quote someone else? Your response has nothing to do with my point. I didn't like the restriction so instead of "to hecking with it" I wrote the city to try to understand their methods as it was in direct conflict with the state DOT's recommendation for school zone design. Their response was pretty much "because we thought we should" as I predicted. My comment was directed toward yours when you said we should start respecting what the engineers do. In my example, there were NO engineers consulted and the guidelines from the state ones were ignored.

I comply with it despite it being ridiculous. It's often the site of "revenue enhancement" for the local police.

The irony is I'm more likely a hazard as I pass through there since I spend so much of my time watching the speedometer.