most work zone fatalities arent workers, theyre drivers. stop putting them to work during rush hour instead of imposing stupidly low limits

if the kids are trying to cross and people are going like 50, people like that will get in trouble for other stuff anyway. thats rarely the case behind most school zone tickets as most slow down when kisd are there

and i think the license test should be a lot harder, and no i didnt just get a ticket. there are yield signs onto 45 mph roads sometimes here and it works just fine. if there are people coming, you stop. if there are not, you roll through at 5-10 mph. if youre unsure, you roll at 2 mph and stop if there are people coming. its common sense

the point is that speed limits usually nail okay drivers who are just not following the law instead of really nasty drivers. what i put up would nail the really bad drivers a lot more.

Post edited at 2:42 pm on July 2, 2009 by iconoclast

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Kids should learn to not go in the middle of the road when there are cars there.  By the age of 5 I was able to cross a road that people regularly do 35mph around a blind curve.  Parents these days are too relaxed with their kids around cars.  I see too many kids doing whatever the fuck they want in parking lots.  I would be in deep shit if I tried being an asshat in a parking lot, and especially in a road.  

Speed limits are BS if drivers could learn to drive according to conditions (ie: snow storms, kids, school zones, fog).  

Another problem happens to be current drivers.  This winter when I was heading back from Alpine Valley (southern Wisconsin ski resort) there was very thick fog.  I was going ~35mph on the interstate because there was no possible way to see more than a second ahead of me at that speed.  But there were shitheads in SUVs and minivans with their hi-beams (makes seeing worse in very thick fog, for any noobs out there) on going in excess of 65mph.  There is no possible way that they could have seen more than half a second in front of them.  

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