Comments on: Sheriff defends the right to speed http://sustainablesavannah.com/transportation/sherrif-defends-the-right-to-speed/ Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:56:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Captain Kickstand http://sustainablesavannah.com/transportation/sherrif-defends-the-right-to-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-1116 Captain Kickstand Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:00:40 +0000 http://sustainablesavannah.com/?p=681#comment-1116 Chris: Posted speed limits take into account a variety of factors such as the size of the road, the limits of visibility, and what's on the road (residences, schools, high-traffic businesses). To the extent that speed limits are 'politically selected,' they're often related to the expressed will of people to be able to cross the street in peace. Put another way, the number on the sign doesn't make driving faster unsafe, but the number on the sign represents the best estimate of what the maximum safe speed is. Chris:

Posted speed limits take into account a variety of factors such as the size of the road, the limits of visibility, and what’s on the road (residences, schools, high-traffic businesses). To the extent that speed limits are ‘politically selected,’ they’re often related to the expressed will of people to be able to cross the street in peace.

Put another way, the number on the sign doesn’t make driving faster unsafe, but the number on the sign represents the best estimate of what the maximum safe speed is.

]]> By: SW http://sustainablesavannah.com/transportation/sherrif-defends-the-right-to-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-1115 SW Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:17:34 +0000 http://sustainablesavannah.com/?p=681#comment-1115 Here here! It's nice to hear someone standing up against the nanny state! Here here! It’s nice to hear someone standing up against the nanny state!

]]> By: j. mork http://sustainablesavannah.com/transportation/sherrif-defends-the-right-to-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 j. mork Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:27:26 +0000 http://sustainablesavannah.com/?p=681#comment-1114 Duh. It doesn't target the poor. It targets lawbreakers. Don't want to pay the fine? Don't break the law. It's a no-brainer. Now fire the loon and hire a sheriff who has some respect for the law. I wonder what other laws he doesn't think deserve being enforced. Duh. It doesn’t target the poor. It targets lawbreakers. Don’t want to pay the fine? Don’t break the law. It’s a no-brainer.

Now fire the loon and hire a sheriff who has some respect for the law. I wonder what other laws he doesn’t think deserve being enforced.

]]> By: Chris http://sustainablesavannah.com/transportation/sherrif-defends-the-right-to-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-1113 Chris Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:51:18 +0000 http://sustainablesavannah.com/?p=681#comment-1113 Driving too fast for conditions is one thing, but driving faster than a arbitrarily (and oftentimes politically) selected number on a sign, i.e. speeding, does not equal driving unsafely. How could it? All the police have to do to increase or decrease speeding is to adjust the number on the sign. So don't tell me that driving faster then the posted speed limit is automatically unsafe. Driving too fast for conditions is one thing, but driving faster than a arbitrarily (and oftentimes politically) selected number on a sign, i.e. speeding, does not equal driving unsafely. How could it? All the police have to do to increase or decrease speeding is to adjust the number on the sign. So don’t tell me that driving faster then the posted speed limit is automatically unsafe.

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