http://www.motorists.org/ma/s.html

So pretty much a few government towny type people blow off the studys... (because they must know better) and in all their combined wisdom just make up "speed limits"

This is such BS!

 

Who has time to come up with this crap? I dont even have time to read 1/4 of it.

 

I'm never going to pay another ticket again... Its great reading... I love it.

 

Route 146

Most of Route 146 has been the subject of an engineering speed study within the past 15 years. This is due to reconstruction since the 1960s.

Worcester
The 55 mile per hour posting on the new highway in Worcester appears to be arbitrary; it was posted as an extension of the speed zone in Millbury.
Millbury
An engineering study in 2005 recommended a 65 mile per hour speed limit on all of Route 146 in Millbury, consistent with 85th percentile speeds. Instead the north half of the road was posted 55 and the south half 50.
Sutton to Rhode Island
A speed study in 1998 found an 85th percentile speed near 70. The road was posted 65 instead from Rhode Island to about halfway through Sutton. The speed limit in the north half of Sutton had been 60 until lowered by the NMSL.


I think I will save this part for the Troopers that litter Sutton and Millbury on 146. I am sure once they read this they will mend their evil ways.

 

See it is great reading!

 

I don't plan on reading more than the first few lines of that as it is just waaaay to long, but I will offer this:

If this was true and a valid defense for speeding tickets, I am sure some astute lawyer would have realized this decades ago and not one fine would have been paid since. Personally, I would love to be a fly on the wall to see the judge's reaction to the hour long sermon one would need to deliver in court in an attempt to evade a $150 ticket using this method. Planning on testing it out John?

I would like to read Bill's take on this...

 

can you say " revenue enhancement" ? I thought you could.

 

Yeah! Shame on those a-holes that make it so our wives can travel with our children on the highway without everyone driving 120 past them and blowing through red lights! I have heard that some of them even stop people who drive with no headlights at night Whats wrong with these ogres!!!

 

Don't take offence Jeff, plenty of people get tickets and should get them... but I've caught more than one cop lying in court and trying to screw me over.

I have nothing against cops. I have a few in the family, I know a LOT personally, I have close friends in the FBI and so on... but sometimes cops just don't use good judgement and/or common sense.

I take every single ticket I get to court... I've lost once, out of maybe 10 times.

The law is the law... but it works in both directions

 

Thats an f'ing shame and a disgrace as well. It pisses me off to hear that. I have gotten a boat load of tickets in my day, and lost my license on more than one occasion. I did deserve every one though and I can admit that.

So John, you will have to explain to me what happened that these guys lied with you next time we are together. I for the life of me can't imagine why a cop would pull someone over for doing nothing when there is such an abundance of people who are actualy doing somehting wrong. Especialy since there are no quotas and the cop gets no money out of the ticket. Maybe it's because I work in a fairly busy city and traffic enforcement is just above a parking ticket on the list of priorities