A routine item caught my eye. Pasadena, California did a speed limit review. I’ve learned that the pile of words and figures in such reviews often obscures violations of the law. Most cities review speed limits every five years to comply with the speed trap law. (Or, in the case of Los Angeles, they don’t […]
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How Campbell, California breaks the speed trap law
I may be returning to Campbell, California, and this time I decided to check out the city’s speed survey first. How else could I know what the speed limit signs really mean? California has strict rules governing city speed limits. Hopefully after seeing what I did you’ll be able to repeat the process with your […]
Speeder madness
Reading Eric Schlosser’s essay “Reefer Madness,” I was struck by the parallels between the war on drugs and the war on speed. There are several correspondences. I’ll start with the most obvious: hypocrisy. When I was in college my writing professor polled his class on marijuana. 10% of us raised our hands for legalization. That […]
It’s like “Operation” with cars
The First Circuit Court of Appeals recently ducked an opportunity to clarify a common pretext for traffic stops. A police officer got a tip that a man might have some drugs. But we can’t just go around searching cars because there might be drugs inside. Not in America. We wait for the car wheels to […]
It’s a trap
We were driving down Beaver Street in Salem when suddenly we were faced with a pair of DO NOT ENTER signs and no place to turn around. As the driver made a dangerous K-turn, I explained that the signs were illegal. Under Massachusetts law, roads can’t turn from two-way to one-way except at an intersection. […]
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