llol..now im 17. but i live on a 25 mph road and i hate when people go over 35!!!
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llol..now im 17. but i live on a 25 mph road and i hate when people go over 35!!!
I don't think you've ever been to the DC area have you? Well, in DC, engineering surveys don't matter, the neighborhood groups have to approve a speed limit change. The speed limit on that road was there in the 1960's (I have no older witnesses to see how far back the same limit goes) when it was 1 lane in each direction and was actually a neighborhood. Now 90% of the neighborhood is gone, it's a 4 lane road with a 1lane wide concrete median, the engineering survey says it should be 45, but those few people who still live there won't approve it.
Oh, and for the record, in my mom's years of driving (since she was 16) she's never had an accident/fender bender or anything.
Richard
I know EXACTLY what you mean. I live in a 25mph road too and sometimes clock people with my stop watch (radarwatch I bough on Ebay). I clock them at 40, 50, 60, etc. I am ALL FOR speeding on the highways but NOT in the city. I myself speed in the city but NEVER over 35mph on a 25mph road. I think 35mph is reasonable
hahah wow i think we agree 100% with each other.... :wink:
There are some places where they are WAY too liberal in setting the 25 MPH speed limits. On a stretch of road near me, there are NO side roads, and NO houses. Yet the speed limit is still 25, and I've been down that road multiple times when police were running radar on the people coming around the curve. Easy pickin's for him, since a reasonable speed there is about 40 MPH (like it is on a nearby road going by a school no less).
Jim
Yeah I hate how some government take advantage of certain sittuations. We have a few roads like that too. EASY money for cities
I would say you are just screwed. If he turns it on and it is just you and him well you are going to be singing a ticket. Here in my state if an officer observes you doing above the speed limit considerbly he can write a ticker for unsafe speed. (I got one) Only other thing around it is if you are going to be doing 90 you might as well do 120 and that way he won't catch up. lol
That's where prima facie speed limits can get you. Unsafe speed can mean anything.
Richard
You can't outrun a Motorola.
Richard
You can outrun a radio if you have a scanner. I am not saying do this but when I was younger I did it. I had a warrant for a speeding ticket and took off in my Ford Taurus SHO. 220 horses. Left a caprice sittin still. I just went into the next city. By the time they notified that city I was in the next one. No officer ever got close enough for a tag.
BUT now that was 10 years ago I was stupid and a teenager so don't do anything like that. I hardly ever speed now but like to know where a cop is.
Jason
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