Speeding Ticket

[sqwkvfr]

There wouldn't be a problem if speed limits weren't set so artificially low, which they almost always are. When speed limits are set, they determine an average safe speed, and make a prediction of what speed most people will drive at, and then set the speed limit much lower. One reason for this is so that they will make more money off of speeding tickets.

And no, people will not automatically drive faster if the speed limit is raised. Raising speed limits 10 mph causes an increase in average speed of only 3-4mph. In addition, accident rates sometimes decrease when the speed limit is increased.

You're 100% correct. It's called the 85th percentile speed.

The problem is that people want speed limits raised everywhere except in front of their house.

Local politics has far too much influence over most traffic engineering decisions. We used to put stop signs in the middle of nowhere just to "slow down" traffic in front of Joe Blowhard's house.

...after a few years of this, you've got a big traffic mess because traffic engineering was based on who did the most complaining, not sensible traffic engineering.

 

[FN FAL]

You're 100% correct. It's called the 85th percentile speed.

The problem is that people want speed limits raised everywhere except in front of their house.

Local politics has far too much influence over most traffic engineering decisions. We used to put stop signs in the middle of nowhere just to "slow down" traffic in front of Joe Blowhard's house.

...after a few years of this, you've got a big traffic mess because traffic engineering was based on who did the most complaining, not sensible traffic engineering.

That's just it. If they aren't going to build anymore interstates, someone has to consider the fact that increases of population are going to have to use the existing intersates...how is that going to work? 95 and 64 on the east coast are gridlocked on a friday. You might as well say 94 is grid locked from MKE to MSP, because it's pretty close to that.

 

[soarby007]

Define drunk?..be real.

A judge whose name I can't remember once said, "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it". Maybe that will work, huh? Guess a drunk who gets charged will recognize it when he sees it.

 

[FN FAL]

Define drunk?..be real.

A judge whose name I can't remember once said, "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it". Maybe that will work, huh? Guess a drunk who gets charged will recognize it when he sees it.

You can't be charged for being something...they used to do that in Florida, but it got tossed out in Papachristu v. The City of Jacksonville.

What part of Lower Arkansas are you from?