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Hello,

Hear, hear!

Note that Va.'s wonderful Gov can't decide to send money to 
Northern Va to fix the roads, but can order a full-press
on speeders on I-81.  Shee-yit.

Walt Horning wrote:
> 
> USA today published a finding recently, that I have quoted before,
> namely that the number of cars on superhighways and only secondary
> roads is nearly equal (2% difference), yet the death rate on the
> secondary roads is three times higher, despite lower speed limits.
> 
> USA Today forgot to say that even though the number of vehicles is
> nearly equal, three times as many superhighway miles are driven than
> on secondary roads. This means that the death rate on superhighways is
> actually about 9 times less for an equal number of miles driven.
> 
> And my gripe is that we have had to listen to butt-head politicians
> preach to us long enough about why they keep fighting higher speed
> limits on superhighways and interstates, and we have had to put up
> with their "tax traps" long enough too. (Even in Maryland when the
> limits went up, the death-rates went down, and its former governor
> even wrote editorials stating how he was just saving lives by opposing
> higher limits. Boy was he dead wrong. Pun intended.)
> 
> If people and politicians want to preach about saving lives, let's
> lower the limits on all secondary roads to about 25 mph, because
> that's what it would take to equalize the death rate to that of the
> superhighways. If they are not willing to do this, then its shear
> hypocrisy to preach against higher speed limits superhighways. Raise
> the limits more!
> 
> In summary, they are full of crap.
> 
> (I even know people who using this false assumption, avoid
> superhighways believing they are so dangerous, and use secondary roads
> believing they are so safe, but they are dead wrong too.)

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Cheers!
Dan Nagle		dnagle@erols.com