Thu, Aug 17 2006

Let them go faster—then use radar to catch them

At first glance, raising the speed limit on an already dangerous section of road might seem ridiculous, but everyone is hoping it will actually give CHP personnel a chance to site more speeders. Buena Vista Drive has been the site of more than one fatal crash. Less serious crashes on that road have inconvenienced many of us when our local electricity has been knocked out by people hitting the power poles because of their neglect to choose the correct speed while navigating sharp curves. I hope the CHP camps out with radar and nabs quite a few of these folks before anyone else has to get killed in order to prove that speed is a major factor in almost all accidents in this neighborhood.

And now all we have to do is find a way to slow down the people speeding on my particular street. There are children practicing their skateboard moves in their driveway very near my house. Many times drivers come by at such a high rate of speed that if one of the children lost control of a skateboard and fell into the road the driver of the car would be unable to avoid hitting them. I'm really hoping that the raising of speed limits on connecting roads will not encourage local speeders to think that it's a license for them to go even faster on these small residential side roads.

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