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They were complaining about this town as being a bad speed trap. Most in the rally were police officers from another part of the state. They are there just to catch people going faster than their construction sign. Speed traps are fine, but you do have unscrupulous cities and towns that put up those darn orange construction barrels and signs saying there is road construction and gives an unreasonable speed limit sign and leaves them there for over a year when there is no construction going on. While I agree that downtowns, schools and playgrounds should have 30 mph limits, I don't think hills with straightaways surrounded by woods or fields should warrant these kinds of limits. It doesn't do our downtowns any good either if the area is known for an excessive number of speed traps by the tourists who come here.
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In fact, I have no problem flashing lights to warn tourists because I almost always see cops parked at the same locations looking for people to nab.
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There is no question that they are being used for revenue streams because warnings are rarely, if ever, issued (only full tickets). In the summer when tourists roam through the area for its beauty, a great, great number of them get pulled over because of these excessively severe speed traps. I live in a rural area in upstate NY near the Vermont border where speed traps are set up on hills (and in areas of woods or country where no one lives), where many times you have to excessively break from 55 to 30 at a moment's notice. Keep in mind- the definition of a speed trap is when the posted signs indicate a speed lower than what an engineering traffic survey (ETS) found to be the safe speed and an officer then writes a ticket based on that low speed.
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It is not the drivers traveling faster than the posted speed limit in a speed trap who are breaking the law it is actually the local government unit trying to enforce an unrealistic and low speed limit that is often in violation of the law.Īccording to my brother, who's an attorney in Ohio, speed traps also refer to small towns whose officer: citizen ratio is extremely high (borderline illegal). Speed traps are actually illegal in many states since no legitimate speed study would support a speed trap. Speed traps attempt to force drivers to travel at a less safe speed.
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Also, this driver will obstruct the smooth flow of traffic.
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If one drives at the posted limit in a speed trap, that driver is exposing himself and others to a higher risk of being involved in an accident. Posted limits can be and are at around the 10th percentile of free flowing traffic in speed traps. A speed trap is a road with a posted limit substantially below the 85th percentile of free flowing traffic.
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This means that speed limits can be changed by +/- 15 MPH with almost no change in the actual speeds most drivers travel at. Speed limits are supposed to be set at this point with advisories used to warn drivers of localized hazards (that is, don't lower the limit for a temporary/localized hazard.) Fact 2: most drivers don't set their speed by what a speed limit sign says but rather, by what the driving environment is. Fact 1: the 85th percentile of free flowing traffic under good conditions is the point where the probability of being involved in an accident is the least. The person who wrote this article is/was badly informed.