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Re: Daily gripe: Speeds could be higher, per USA today

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From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:00
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In article <36C2DFF9.37B9@erols.com>, Oscar Voss  <ovoss@erols.com> wrote:

}Actually, I-81 is so often congested with trucks that it's usually hard
}to build up speed.  I'm not sure extra enforcement will make a lot of
}difference there.

Often the trucks will be doing 80+MPH on the downhill, presumably
because they need the momentum to make it up the next hill.  The cars
follow the same pattern as the trucks.  Put a cop on the bottom with
radar, and a cop at the top of the next hill waving people over, and
the state could rake in the dough -- for about 10 minutes, by which
time traffic would back up for miles on both sides of the trap and
speeds would fall to nothing because they'd screw up the trucks.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue." 
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Subject: Re: Daily gripe: Speeds could be higher, per USA today
Date: 1999/02/11
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