Speed-limit signs covered
Electronic speed-limit signs along an 11-mile stretch of Interstate 4 have been covered as state road officials prepare to test their ability to display changing speed limits.
Archive for the 'Speed Limits' category
Danger: Slow Driver
“In a blizzard or in especially icy conditions, we all support your good sense in slowing down and driving more cautiously. In normal day-to-day winter driving conditions, however, we do not enjoy slamming on our brakes, nearly spinning off the highway or into other drivers when you attempt to merge at 60 km/h while the rest of us are going the legal speed of 100 km/h.”
Safety first or speed trap? Red light cameras raising eyebrows
New traffic ticket cameras set to be placed in busy intersections in Carol Stream are raising a host of questions about their safety and legality. The cameras could also add fuel to the fire of local motorists who complain about the number of citations handed out by Carol Stream law enforcement along North Avenue. The complaints may not just be sour grapes from lead-footed drivers.
Safety first or speed trap? Red light cameras raising eyebrows
Traffic codes nix North Huntingdon’s 19 mph limit
North Huntingdon police Sgt. Duane Kucera concedes he took a “little egg on the face” when he erected 19 mph signs on two township streets a year ago and inadvertently violated state and federal regulations requiring speed limits in 5 mph increments. Even though the 20 mph signs are back up on Mockingbird Lane in front of Norwin Intermediate School and on Biddle Avenue In Westmoreland City, Kucera thinks motorists got the message to slow down. He’s had no speeding complaints in more than a year.
Ask Chicagoist: What’s the Speed Limit?
This letter to Chicagoist draws attention to a major human factors problem in urban traffic law enforcement: posting of speed limits at the borders of city limits.
“Dear Chicagoist, I’ve been driving around Chicago for a couple years and I can’t recall seeing a single speed limit sign on any city streets. Is there a standard speed limit within the city or are we all allowed to drive like cabbies out there?”
Drivers of future give out own safety lessons
Safety conscious schoolchildren handed-out their own ‘speeding tickets’ to motorists in an attempt to improve road safety. “Although some people do take it steady near the school, some people like to speed along. I hope my ticket will make a difference to this as it shows what will happen if you speed,” one student said.
The whole nation could be a speed trap
NMA says a speed trap is where “the speed limit is grossly underposted and universally ignored. Traffic is moving safely and expeditiously, but not legally. … As fast as the pen can be applied to paper, driver after driver is issued a speeding ticket that results in exorbitant fines, points on their driver’s licenses and insurance surcharges.” The NMA, established 25 years ago to fight the 55-m.p.h. speed limit that was lifted in 1995, “believes in freedom and responsibility to make choices, not in ‘one size fits all’ legislation, ticket cameras, unfair driving taxes, revenue-motivated traffic courts and speed traps.”
Safety experts fight tickets
Two safety experts ticketed for speeding in Ann Arbor this year are urging a judge to dismiss the citations, arguing that the city’s speed limits are unsafe and illegal under state law. They did not argue that a statute allows a city to supersede state law in setting limits. But they did assert that “the only logical method for determining a safe speed limit on an urban roadway … under the jurisdiction of a local authority like the city of Ann Arbor is to allow that local authority to make individualized determinations based on the recommendations of its traffic engineers.”
Bogus Speed Limit Signs Generate Real Tickets
A Northampton County, Virginia resident decided to lower the speed limit outside his home by 20 MPH, and for more than six months police went along with it. Because Granville Hogg was upset at the legal 55 MPH pace on Townville Drive near Cherrystone campground, the elderly farmer decided to post his own authentic-looking 35 MPH speed limit signs nearly one year ago.
DPS has new way to catch drivers speeding in AZ
The Arizona Department of Public Safety unveiled a new tool on Thursday that will help them bust speeders. Mobile radar units will now be popping up all over the state.
