RE: Speeding is good? No I don't agree...

["L. M. Lloyd" <ubik@austin.rr.com>]

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Well, I have never been stopped outside of a major city in Texas, but
here in Austin you can contest a ticket if the city has not had the
road surveyed in the past five years. I have gotten out of a reckless
endangerment ticket that way, so I know that it at the very least
worked that way in '95. As for speeding tickets, they don't even try
to pretend that has anything to do with safety, the crime is in not
following the law. Any argument of safety issues is immediately
thrown out as irrelevant. You did not obey the posted signs, so you
broke the law, that is all there is to it.







The goal is to overcome the deliberate nature of the process. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Cmr446@cs.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 11:44 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Speeding is good? No I don't agree...
> 
> 
>    So, if I print this off and keep it in my glove box, could I use
> it  explain away a ticket the next time I'm in Texas? I mean, gad, 
> some of those 
> stretches of highway  NEED to be traveled at least at 80!   : )
> 
> <<  I have had lots of friends who were
>  civil engineers, two of whom made their living surveying roads to
>  ascertain recommended speed limits. The first thing you have to
>  understand is that every road has two distinctly different speed
>  limits. The first is the recommended safe speed, and the second is
>  the posted speed limit. >> 
> 
>    - Everything in between-
> 
> << On a Texas highway that would mean that you would have to be
> doing at 
>  least 115mph to constitute reckless endangerment, since all Texas
>  highways should have a recommended safe speed of 80mph.  >>
> 
> 
> Carl
> 77rocco
> 89fox
> 
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