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Re: Speeders, FYI



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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