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Ok, I also find this issue comical....but what I find funny is your position on it.
If you ask drivers(and I have) they will say they drive an average of 10-15 MPH over
the speed limit no matter what the limit is.  If you need this to be translated, it
means that when the speed limit is 55 MPH, they will drive 65-70MPH.  If the limit
was changed to 65 MPH, then most people would drive 75-80MPH.  I know that in some
states they have upped the speed limit to 75MPH(previously 65MPH), and have incurred
*many* more injuries...

Frank

Mark J. Rinehart wrote:

> I find this whole speed limit issue comical. The Governor and various
> politicians and some large %age of the citizenry are fearing all kinds
> of carnage will result from raising the limit. But as far as I can
> tell - as someone who drives 24K miles each year - many trips to NYC,
> and up and down the NJT, GSP, Rte. 18, I287, I195, as well as a
> commuter driving 100+ miles each day, police haven't enforced 55 in
> several years.
>
> The fact that this 65mph limit is becoming legal now is great. But
> the NJ State Police have not enforced anything but a 65mph limit for
> at least the last 3 to 4 years on the GSP, south of the Raritan Toll
> Plaza and the NJT, from at least exit 9 north, and back.
>
> From what I can tell, the politicians seem to be insisting that the
> police are *enforcing the speed limit*, which infers that they have,
> up to now, been enforcing something reasonable as to the 55 mph
> limit. That is not true from my experience, as it appears to me that
> they are enforcing a 9 to 10 mph overage of a 65 limit - and have been
> doing so for several years. But it certainly makes for good headlines
> for the politicians.
>
> Mark



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