Earlier today, I had the estimable pleasure of driving on the Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpikes, and a few limited access highways in Michigan.
Picture the following driving scenario: You first see a sign that says something to the effect that a construction zone is coming. Next, you see a 50mph limit sign. The posted speed limit otherwise is 70, and most traffic is moving at 75-80mph. The occasional police car is inert and no one is being pulled over.
Then you start to encounter construction barrels, orange and white. No one has slowed down. All are still going 75+.
You see another sign warning that fines are doubled in construction zones. You know that all three of the mentioned states have laws that permit ticketing by video cameras.
After passing some distance - anywhere from a couple hundred yards to a few miles, there are no more barrels, then a sign telling you that the Construction zone had ended.
I went through at least 20 such "construction" zones today, and only 2 or 3 of them had any active humans or vehicles; only one appeared to have any actual construction going on.
What the ever-loving Fuck is going on here? These three states could balance their budgets in a single day, just ticketing every car that exceeds the posted construction speed limits. Honestly, if I had slowed to the posted construction speed limits I would have been a serious safety hazard by blocking traffic.
These state governments, each of whose Governors claim to be working for the PEOPLE, facilitates a situation where flouting the law is blatant and uniform, and where every driver is subject to crippling fines for merely traveling with the flow of traffic.
Picture the following driving scenario: You first see a sign that says something to the effect that a construction zone is coming. Next, you see a 50mph limit sign. The posted speed limit otherwise is 70, and most traffic is moving at 75-80mph. The occasional police car is inert and no one is being pulled over.
Then you start to encounter construction barrels, orange and white. No one has slowed down. All are still going 75+.
You see another sign warning that fines are doubled in construction zones. You know that all three of the mentioned states have laws that permit ticketing by video cameras.
After passing some distance - anywhere from a couple hundred yards to a few miles, there are no more barrels, then a sign telling you that the Construction zone had ended.
I went through at least 20 such "construction" zones today, and only 2 or 3 of them had any active humans or vehicles; only one appeared to have any actual construction going on.
What the ever-loving Fuck is going on here? These three states could balance their budgets in a single day, just ticketing every car that exceeds the posted construction speed limits. Honestly, if I had slowed to the posted construction speed limits I would have been a serious safety hazard by blocking traffic.
These state governments, each of whose Governors claim to be working for the PEOPLE, facilitates a situation where flouting the law is blatant and uniform, and where every driver is subject to crippling fines for merely traveling with the flow of traffic.
