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Article #13071Re: Daily gripe: Speeds could be higher, per USA today
From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,fe85b36bf1f48263 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto) Subject: Re: Daily gripe: Speeds could be higher, per USA today Date: 1999/02/11 Message-ID: <q2Gw2.514$nx.609840@newshog.newsread.com> X-Deja-AN: 443318329 References: <36c229db.676265@news.pipeline.com> <36C2D167.89C5F826@erols.com> <36C2DFF9.37B9@erols.com> X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role <abuse@pond.com>, We Care <abuse@newsread.com> X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 918760726 198.69.82.2 (Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:18:46 EDT) Organization: Ghotinet NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:18:46 EDT Newsgroups: dc.driving