🚀 go-pugleaf

N8N wrote:
> 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...

Personally I wish they'd set up a camera that catches people running the 
four-way stop at my corner. About one out of ten people simply drives 
right through it at speed.

It's one thing when it's people who aren't familiar with the 
neighborhood, I can understand how it might escape their notice due to a 
badly-placed bus-stop sign that breaks up the octagon shape of the sign, 
and this coming right after topping a hill. What really grates my nerves 
are the people who run the stop sign, at speed, once in the morning 
going to work, and once in the evening coming home from work.

FWIW I personally rarely exceed the speedlimit by more than 10MPH, and 
in residential areas in most parts of Montgomery County, running 35 in a 
25 is probably unwise. A lot of people do roll at "five over" but 
generally that isn't unreasonable, and this law doesn't penalize such 
persons.


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