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Article #13004Re: Daily gripe: Cops ticketing HOV-2 violators cause traffic jam
From: Comish4lif
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00
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>My friend reported to me that as she was driving down I-270 yesterday, >traffic was backed up 7-10 miles as people slowed and gaulked at the >cops ticketing or waiting to ticket single drivers driving in the >HOV-2 lane. > >Swift move!!!! > >First, HOV-2 is supposed to save gas. The police action just wasted >enough gas in that one day (stop-and-go drivers to the tune of 50,000 >vehicles), that it may take a one year period of HOV-2 use just to >make up for it. It they do this enough times a year, there will be no >gas savings, but lots of gas wasted. Why are the police at fault for the people that slowed and gawked at them while they wrote tickets? Why don't you direct your anger towads the people that really created the back-up? The F****king rubber-neckers! What do those people expect to see that is of interest? A neighbor or coworker getting strip searched?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,5a5df25dcc32a7b X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: comish4lif@aol.com (Comish4lif) Subject: Re: Daily gripe: Cops ticketing HOV-2 violators cause traffic jam Date: 1999/03/04 Message-ID: <19990304132852.13529.00005190@ng-ch1.aol.com> X-Deja-AN: 451239638 References: <370003c7.7861587@news.pipeline.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: dc.driving X-Admin: news@aol.com