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Article #7Re: Why speed limits in Texas are rising
From: Dusty Moer
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 00:00
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In article <4m35nk$90l@linux3.ph.utexas.edu>, dougmc@linux3.ph.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren) says: > >Personally, I love the new limits ... > >Though one thing really annoys the hell out of me ... I got a ticket. > >On 21, in Bryan, going from Austin to College Station. Speed limit is >70 during the day, 65 at night. It was night. I was pulled over and >given a ticket for going 72. Not even a warning, but a ticket. > >I wonder how he was even able to tell that he clocked me and not that >truck behind me ... he was on the side of the road, lights out, >apparantly using a radar gun that points out the back window. > 7 over is mild. They're giving tickets for 1 and 2 over, especially on 2 laners. There should be at least a 5mph buffer zone...I say 7-8. Also, there should be one speed limit: one for day, night, trucks, etc. After all, wouldn't it be safer if everyone was going the same speed? My 2 cents Dusty ========================================================== DUSTIN C. MOER Texas A&M University, Class of 1998 College of Business Administration Major Fields of Study: Business Analysis/MIS & Finance URL: http://acs.tamu.edu/~dcm0027/ E-mail: d-moer@tamu.edu ==========================================================
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10bedf,df84947de7722d9b X-Google-Attributes: gid10bedf,public X-Google-Thread: f52a6,be17f2a68004864 X-Google-Attributes: gidf52a6,public From: dcm0027@tam2000.tamu.edu (Dusty Moer) Subject: Re: Why speed limits in Texas are rising Date: 1996/05/04 Message-ID: <4mg7bj$ntr@news.tamu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 152992853 references: <VINCE.96Apr12091031@vince.math.uconn.edu> <4kttld$343@dg-rtp.dg.com> <4ku6ht$q3c@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> <4l2nmp$rc2@news.hal-pc.org> <4m35nk$90l@linux3.ph.utexas.edu> organization: Texas A&M University reply-to: d-moer@tamu.edu newsgroups: tamu.general,austin.autos