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Re: Speeders, FYI



In <3lmuj5$4ug@clark.net>, cjfred@clark.net (Chris Frederick) writes:
>In article <3lmkb7$425@access4.digex.net>,
>Ed Tuthill <bishop@access4.digex.net> wrote:
>
>> I'd just love to get together with three friends and do my own "rolling
>> road block" on the Beltway to show how silly the 55mph speed limit is.
>
> Anyone remember the police in MD doing this several years ago?
>
>I wonder whether this was done as a reminder that the speed limit is 55 MPH,
>or in the hopes of getting people to complain about the too-low speed limit.
>Most cops probably aren't any happier about 55 MPH than the rest of us are.

I was going North on I-95 many years ago when MD troopers had a rolling
roadblock going South--great traffic backup, and a few rear end accidents.
I agree that the police are no happier about 55 than the rest of us.  I was
in a group of cars going 75 or so on the NJ Turnpike and noticed that the
car next me was an unmarked police car driven by a NJ State Policeman--
he was headed for the barracks and couldn't have cared less.  Another problem
with 55 is how do you decide whom to pull over when everyone is breaking
the law?  Has anyone seen any discrimination?  Most of my interstate driving
is in MD and NJ and they seem fair--in NJ if you go over 80 on the Turnpike,
you will probably get a ticket.  Unofficial limit in MD seems to be about 75.

Bob Nelson