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In article <d9a89t07hf3ik4cedd10bq0gtk3v79mnru@4ax.com>, Brandon
Sommerville <gti@null.net.gov> wrote:

> >Sorry I bothered.  Trot out your "85th percentile" zealots to gloat.
> 
> Instead of getting upset, why do you think the speed limits are being
> ignored?

It isn't upset so much as it is frustration and annoyance at the
seemingly increasing number of drivers who have a "the hell with the
rules, I'm more important than anyone on the road, anyone in my way
is an obstruction, and I'll speed if I want to because I'm a damn
good driver" attitude.  The justification for a lot of the speeding
on the interstate seems to be the "85th percentile" measurement of
speed and no other factors should ever come into play.  I see the
same attitude daily here in Blacksburg.  Speed limits, even in town
and on residential streets, mean nothing.  Red lights are meant to be
run if it means stopping might be inconvenient -- and I don't mean
drifting through the light because stopping would require locking the
brakes, this is the light turns yellow when the brat is 10 car-lengths
or more from the stop-bar and they just roll right on through with no
effort to slow or stop.  A 19-year-old student was killed last
Saturday night on a street in town -- she was the passenger in a pickup
truck that plowed into a car that pulled out in front of it.  The
accident is still under investigation, but the indications are that
speed was a factor -- both vehicles were flipped in the collision.
"Me first, I'm good" -- speed -- meets "me first, I'll pull out if I
want to and the other driver can change lanes" -- arrogance.  One girl
dead, four others injured, and two vehicles totalled.

So don't whine to me about how good a driver you think you are and try
18 ways to Sunday to justify why you ignore the laws (and courtesy).  It
all boils down to selfish acts by spoiled brats who probably weren't
told "no" very often by their parents.

Breaking the law is breaking the law, whether you agree with the law
or not.  Claiming that the VDOT/VSP lowering the speed limit on a
section of I-81 won't improve safety or is just a ruse to annoy drivers
and collect more revenue is a bunch of bull.  If you aren't part of the
solution, then you are part of the problem.

Bruce in Blacksburg

-- 
Bruce B. Harper
Blacksburg,  Virginia