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Can't Drive 65 (was 'Re: Tolerance of vice')
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Wed, 24 Oct 2001 01:03:32 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Bad example... since you're referring to noncommon law. Speed limits tend to
> be revenue generation devices nowadays more than anything else.
Please elaborate... with statistics if you so prefer. :)
Are you denying that speed limits also serve to regulate traffic
patterns, allow drivers to avoid accidents by reducing stopping
distance(dependent on ~following the limit of course), etc ?
Of course the $27.4 billion (1) in costs associated with speeding last
year probably did somebody's revenue.
-chris
1- http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/ncsa/tsf2000/2000spdfacts.pdf
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| (...) Bad example... since you're referring to noncommon law. Speed limits tend to be revenue generation devices nowadays more than anything else. But I can tell you that I would not patronise a private road that used that particular punishment. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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