One job of a municipal transportation department is answering “speeding” complaints. Some cities respond by collecting speed data to see if the complaint is really about speed or about unwanted traffic. Often the response doesn’t see the light of day, but Cambridge, Massachusetts has released 28 years of data collected in response to such complaints. […]
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Tax time in Massachusetts
It’s federal enforcement grant month in Massachusetts, and West Bridgewater police have taken to the texting ticketing task with unusual enthusiasm. They ticketed over 50 people who didn’t remember the two simple rules of texting and driving: Don’t text unless you are driving fast Never admit anything Police were on a congested road with a […]
Driving in debt
After the accident, police took the other driver away in handcuffs. The non-arrested driver said to me, “Her license was suspended. She must be a bad driver.” I heard, “Her license was suspended. She must be poor.” The world is full of people who may or may not be good drivers, but can’t legally drive […]
The $150 million speed trap
Some drivers think a 35 mile per hour speed limit is too slow for a four lane divided highway. Police don’t: they say it’s a good excuse to search cars. This story comes from Fairmont, West Virginia, whose 19,000 people got a $150 million new speed trap in 2010. View Larger Map In the middle […]
Cheyenne corrects an error
Since I call out crooked local politicians for ignoring the law and running illegal speed traps or otherwise violating traffic control rules, I thought I’d point out an example of an error being corrected. In 2004 Cheyenne, Wyoming passed a law — ordinance 3612 — setting the speed limit within city limits to 25. That […]
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