Re: Don't drive in MD!$$(Doesn't everyone speed?)$$

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From: N8N
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:17

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necromancer wrote:
> Kelley, <mgm@grandhotel.net> was motivated to say this in
> rec.autos.driving on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:22:44 -0500:
> > Calling the legislation an unnecessary government intrusion,
> > Gov. Robert Ehrlich had vetoed a bill to allow the use of
> > the cameras.
> >
> > But both the State Senate and House of Delegates voted
> > to override Ehrlich's veto, and its passage was celebrated
> > by Democratic lawmakers in Montgomery County as a way to
> > make roads safer.
>
> I hope that you will be contacting your "representatives," in the near
> future and tell them that come re-election time that you will remember
> this when you step into the voting booth...
>
> Speed scameras do nothing to make roads safer. They only serve to line
> the pockets of the juristictions that use them and the companies that
> operate them.

Forgot to mention, I've got $50 that says that within a few months
there will be general shock and dismay when many residents of Monkey
Co. discover that they've been speeding through their own neighborhoods
while simultaneously complaining about all the speeders...

nate

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Subject: Re: Don't drive in MD!$$(Doesn't everyone speed?)$$
Date: 26 Jan 2006 17:17:36 -0800
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