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In article <19971211205301.PAA00835@ladder02.news.aol.com>, gibbous@aol.comw says...
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>>ubject: Re: speed humps again, how about some *ideas* ?
>>Tony wrote:
> snip snip snip
>>> Actually, the question that should be asked is this: why do they
>>> set the speed limits so low?  If the vast majority of people are
>>> exceeding the speed limits, then maybe they ought to listen to
>>> "people" and raise the limit.
>snip
>Sigh.  This impatience with democratic government is so discouraging.  
>try to persuade people here on usenet.
> Until those strategies  are successful, you should do what the rest of us -
>most of the rest of us - do: put up with the inconveniences of democratic
>government, and be very thankful that our nation is not run by mob dictat.

Sigh, sigh. No, it is run by risk averse know-nothings. 

On roads which are no better, often worse, more traffic flows faster with greater
safety in Western Europe and other advanced motoring societies. Without harassment
by police, without swingeing insurance penalties, without conflicts between 
drivers.

Some one is doing something right, some one is not.

Personal views, of course.

Nitin Kibe