Re: They All Bought the Farm

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From: Marc
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:00

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Mike Sweeney <msweeney@nospam.lr.net> wrote:

>One problem is that there will always be bitching going on.  One of you always
>says "+5," while another says "10 mph over."  Yet another talks about 10-15
>over.  Some of you are referring to all travel, some of you are only talking
>about the interstates, which, when they were designed, were set for travel at 70
>mph.  With the increases in performance of automobiles, this should equate to
>faster speeds--if everything remains equal.  In my area, traffic has more than
>tripled, and people aren't just speeding on the interstates.  They are speeding
>on the state route at the foot of the hill, they are going an average of 45 in a
>35 on my street, and routinely exceed the speed limit downtown (and even past the
>schools.)

And I go 20 in school zones marked at 20 (I'm the slowest car on the
road, but I go over 100 mph all the time in the city limits of Dallas.
I always use my signal, always come to a complete stop.

I break one law.  I firmly believe that there is no one set speed at
which one becomes unsafe.  Under the correct circumstances, 200+ mph
isn't unsafe on a public road.

Now I'll just sit back and wait for the flames, though they will try
and tell me that I'm advocating 200 in a school zone, and not in west
TX where I've driven for more than an hour without ever seeing a
single other vehicle with miles of visability and no entrances to the
restricted access road.

Marc
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Subject: Re: They All Bought the Farm
Date: 1998/07/23
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