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Originally Posted by jlenko
Not even an editorial feature... it's someone's submission. I'd take it with a grain of salt.
If she was going 50 over (120 in a 70 zone), how fast was she passing the semis? I know semis like to speed too.. but I can't imagine them going 40 over to begin with. Grandma must have been flyin'!!
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The speed limit is reduced from 100, to 70, along the same stretch of highway, during the nicest months of the year.
Also,I highly suspect the semis weren't plodding along at that pace either.
How does that adjustment make any sense either? Wouldn't you want to force people to travel slower during potentially more dangerous winter weather and shorter daylight hours? A near 35% speed reduction over the summer seems ridiculously drastic.
Maybe the May-Oct long days and nice weather give a better opportunity to setup speed traps and have better catches
The focus should be on safety through awareness, not enforcement. I don't know the area so I can't comment on the signage, but it seems to me that if you are going to have special speed limits at certain times during the year, one of those giant yellow signs above the roadway at regular intervals with a "When lights flashing, speed limit reduced to 70KM/h" would be an appropriate way to deal with this. Not to mention, dual speed signs - or in my opinion, the cities should have to pay road crews to change the signs over between the seasons.
Again I don't know the area, but it definitely sounds inadequate.
That said, grandmother in a tight spot, or punk ass luxury driving teenybopper twerp - officers generally approach the law with the mindset of black & white, it's up to the courts and lawyers to distinguish the greys. You can't fault him for doing his job, and applying the letter of the law as written, but it definitely and unfortunate result that this law is having many unintended consequences on regular law abiding folks, while the real dangerous turds (the 13 captured this past week) can simply afford to go out and rent another supercar in the time being because their licenses aren't suspended and the fees are what they'd spend on lunch.