Speed Traps back in action?

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by YoungTulsan

quote:Originally posted by Wilbur


So what are these small towns supposed to do?  Allow people driving ridiculously fast through their city and not be able to do anything about it?  Shows you where people put their priorities.  SAFETY BE DAMNED!

They purposely set the limits below what is reasonable.  Then they park a cop there with a radar gun pointed at you.  The Tulsa Police for the most part just pull people over for driving unreasonably fast or reckless.  If TPD is doing an actual "speed trap", they do it where there is already a reasonable speed limit.  Like 40mph down Lewis or 65mph down the BA.  You are at fault if you think you have to drive 80mph on the BA.   But unsuspectingly driving 35mph through some hick town because they put a 25mph zone in for no good reason, thats not right.  And those places will get you for doing 27 in a 25.

I remember that Coweta (by the Henson restaurant), the towns of Hulbert and Morris are total speed traps.

[iplaw]

I'd love to see the State build a new 4 lane highway to Dallas, or modify what's existing so that it bypasses these pissant towns altogether.  It would cut at least 30 minutes from a road trip to Dallas and points further.  Let Buford T. Justice harass his own residents for revenue.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

I'd love to see the State build a new 4 lane highway to Dallas, or modify what's existing so that it bypasses these pissant towns altogether.  It would cut at least 30 minutes from a road trip to Dallas and points further.  Let Buford T. Justice harass his own residents for revenue.

"Buford T. Justice" is right on the money: definitely people who wear a badge but have no real knowledge of legal terms such as "habeas corpus" or "Miranda Warning." Yes, one of my siblings is an attorney.

[iplaw]

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

I'd love to see the State build a new 4 lane highway to Dallas, or modify what's existing so that it bypasses these pissant towns altogether.  It would cut at least 30 minutes from a road trip to Dallas and points further.  Let Buford T. Justice harass his own residents for revenue.

"Buford T. Justice" is right on the money: definitely people who wear a badge but have no real knowledge of legal terms such as "habeas corpus" or "Miranda Warning." Yes, one of my siblings is an attorney.

My condolences[]

[Conan71]

Eh, if gas gets much higher, I'll be walking through places like Arcadia, Atoka, Big Cabin, and Hulbert.  Then I'll only have to make sure I don't Jaywalk. []

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

I'd love to see the State build a new 4 lane highway to Dallas, or modify what's existing so that it bypasses these pissant towns altogether.  It would cut at least 30 minutes from a road trip to Dallas and points further.  Let Buford T. Justice harass his own residents for revenue.

"Buford T. Justice" is right on the money: definitely people who wear a badge but have no real knowledge of legal terms such as "habeas corpus" or "Miranda Warning." Yes, one of my siblings is an attorney.

My condolences[]

For what? I'm actually quite proud of what she has accomplished. Lives and works in New York, at a good, blue-chip law firm. I'm equally proud of my older brother the pilot (walking in dad's footsteps on that one) and my other brother the schoolteacher. In turn, I believe they're proud of me (at least when I worked as a programmer and technician, before the bottom kinda fell out on that field).

[bandit1trucking]

What you have to watch for in these speed traps, is WHERE you are actually clocked.  I've had it happen before.  Say you are in a 55 MPH zone, and it drops to 45.  The cop can be sitting in the 45 MPH part, with radar gun aimed at 55 MPH zone.  Instant on with the radar, get 54 or 55 MPH reading locked into gun, then back off BEFORE you even reach the 45 MPH zone.  You'll be pulled over in the 45 MPH zone, but you were actually obeying the law, and not to the actual reduced speed zone yet.  I've had it happen to me before, and I know exactly when the radar was on, because my radar detector alerted me, Just instant on, then back off before I reached the speed zone.

[bandit1trucking]

I will say though, it wasn't a small town cop that got me that time, it was an OHP officer, in 1990.  If you're familar with North Peoria, I was headed south, and it was where it goes from 2 lane to 4 lanes at 76th st North.  I was halfway between Delaware creek and where the speed limit drops at 76th when he clocked me.  Got me for 54 in a 45...But even though I knew exactly where he clocked me at, there was no way to prove it.[!]

[jdb]

"So slow down." - rwarn

Posted like an aspiring hyper-miler.

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by YoungTulsan


65mph down the BA.  You are at fault if you think you have to drive 80mph on the BA.

65 down the BA is RIDICULOUS.  MOST people who have somehwere to go and something to do drive AT LEAST 75 down the BA.  65 is an unreasonable limit and there are groups of people that have been trying to get it raised for years.  They always come back that its a safety issue.  Well, if they would fix the ****ing CRATERS on the BA around the 15th exit they wouldn't have a safety problem.

If you want to drive 65 on the BA then get in the ****ing right lane so the rest of us can get on with our lives.  You are not a do gooder when you drive 65 in the left lane.....you are an donkey.

Oh and the vigilantes of you out there who try to run us down should just quit.  You don't drive a vehicle that can handle speeds over 90 so just get in the right lane and let those of us who know how to handle our machines go on.

[Wilbur]

quote:Originally posted by inteller

quote:Originally posted by YoungTulsan


65mph down the BA.  You are at fault if you think you have to drive 80mph on the BA.

65 down the BA is RIDICULOUS.  MOST people who have somehwere to go and something to do drive AT LEAST 75 down the BA.  65 is an unreasonable limit and there are groups of people that have been trying to get it raised for years.  They always come back that its a safety issue.  Well, if they would fix the ****ing CRATERS on the BA around the 15th exit they wouldn't have a safety problem.

If you want to drive 65 on the BA then get in the ****ing right lane so the rest of us can get on with our lives.  You are not a do gooder when you drive 65 in the left lane.....you are an donkey.

Oh and the vigilantes of you out there who try to run us down should just quit.  You don't drive a vehicle that can handle speeds over 90 so just get in the right lane and let those of us who know how to handle our machines go on.

Actually, the speed limit on the BA from 15th to Memorial is 60, so 65 is already speeding.  And the speed drops to 55 at 15th into downtown.

Don't you just love people who think they can drive at any speed in any traffic, yet we kill 43,000 people each year because of it, and they still don't get it.  They are the fools.  They will either kill them self or others right along with them.  How many bodies have been scraped off the BA?

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by Wilbur
How many bodies have been scraped off the BA?

all of the weak ones.

[jamesrage]

quote:Originally posted by Hawkins

This is bad news for summer motorists already stung from high gas prices.

Apparently the "speed trap" designation is being lifted from Oklahoma towns.

I used to have to travel back and forth from Tulsa to Dallas, and I always hated the trip through southern Oklahoma for this reason.

The good people of Texas did get one thing right-- they built their highways around or over their small towns, not through them! It is extremely annoying to pull up to a stoplight in redneckville when trying to travel through the southern part of our state!

Now we'd better watch out! Its back to the dark ages of travel in Oklahoma.

http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0507/423485.html

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Why is it a problem if cops have speed traps?If you are not out there endangering everyone else around you by speeding then you should have nothing to worry about.SFW(so ****ing what) if cops have speed traps,there is this called a speed limit.Having a car does not give you a God given right to drive as fast as you want.

[jamesrage]

quote:Originally posted by patric

Doesnt justifying ambush ticket-writing as a primary source of income detract from the moral high ground of fines being punishment for a crime?

If people paid attention and drove the proper speed limit they would not have to worry about a ticket.There should be more speed traps.

[inteller]

speedos are not accurate and neither are radar guns.  speed traps are called such because people get stopped for going 1-5 over and that base ticket is enough to bring the city revenue.  you are assuming all these tickets are given out for 15+ over.  That is not the case.  If a person sets their cruise to 65 and get pulled over for 67 or some ****, that is a travesty.  And don't give me the line "oh well they can just take an affidavit to the judge that the speedo was inaccurate.  I've seen that fail time and time again because the town judge is in on the racket.