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Re: Speeders, FYI
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Subject: Re: Speeders, FYI
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From: steve@baloo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Steven Rezsutek)
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Date: 06 Apr 1995 15:38:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: bishop@access4.digex.net's message of 2 Apr 1995 12:45:27 -0400
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Newsgroups: dc.driving
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Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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References: <DCDR.23DC@herblink.com> <3lmkb7$425@access4.digex.net>
bishop@access4.digex.net (Ed Tuthill) writes:
In <DCDR.23DC@herblink.com>, doctor.doom@herblink.com wrote:
> The fact of the matter is that if speeding were *strictly* enforced -- that
> is, if large numbers of people were pulled over for going a few miles over
> 55 or even 65 -- the outcry would be so great that both of these
> preposterous speed limits would be revoked overnight.
A driver in Philadelphia recently gave up his "self-enforcement" of an
outrageous speed limit up there. There's a road used regularly by
commuters that has a speed limit of 25, but can safely support 45 (the
speed at which the traffic generally flows).
[...]
He says that he only stopped driving at that speed because he was tired
of the threats he was getting from other drivers who had to pass him on
this two-lane road.
Were any more details about the location provided?
Given only the info that it was a two lane road, marked 25mph, it sounds
like it is within town limits, possibly in a residential area with
adjoining houses, or something. Even if the road is such that a car
could safely travel at 45 on it, the people/entities along that road,
assuming the existance of same, simply may not *want* it that way, and,
through whatever channels, have done something about it.
MHO only...
Steve
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