so, some douchebag didn't like how fast people were driving and decided to unilaterally lower the speed limit... are they going to refund the difference in fines to people who were ticketed in that area?

Just the traffic version of 'get off my lawn'.

Impotent farging bastages raging against those who do not kowtow to their world view.

Mercifully, a natural death solves most of these problems.

No street should be less than 35mph, especially a main road.
You aren't saving lives at 25mph, you're just increasing revenue for the city from tickets, and making people ride their brakes.

People drive too slow these days. Is everybody stoned or something?

Go ahead, knock yourselves out:

shiat, my engine at idle makes me do 30mph.

/Insert standard moral outrage, about the police not looking for the turd who put the fraudulent signs up in the first place.

This country is full of nosey control freaks.

That's pretty awesome. It shouldn't be up to a single individual to do this though... it should start at city hall.

My city of 400,000 has recently lowered all speed limits from 50km/h (30mph) to 40km/h (25mph) and has created new school and park zones of 30km/h (18mph). City hall has also created hundreds of dedicated pedestrian crossings, they've widened a bunch of sidewalks and created some where there were there none to begin with.

The battle to reduce automobile dependency and promote livable, walkable cities continues :)

25 is bad enough, making people ride behind old blue hairs that are going 18 mph is first class asshattery.

I understand lowering it in a neighborhood. Am I the only one that would have raised them on a nice twisty backroad somewhere?

Get Lost: shiat, my engine at idle makes me do 30mph.

Really? If so your car has issues.

still pissed orlando dropped a section of I-4 that I use from 65 to 60. wtf =/

Could be worse



/hot

What now, biatches?

Irrational, sure, but where's the IMAGINARY speed limit??

I get lowering the speed limit where my family live, as long as I'm still able to do 50 past the shops and schools in other places then I'm OK with this. I mean, if a kid sees my car going really fast he/she will be too scared to cross the road making it safer for everyone and it means I don't have to slow down. Therefore I can leave a few minutes later and get to work on time, because I am a COMPLETE farkING DOUCHE WHO SHOULD BE STERILIZED OR DIAF.

emersonbiggins: Could be worse

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/hot



You got nothing on fractional speed limit signs.

Get Lost: shiat, my engine at idle makes me do 30mph.

/Insert standard moral outrage, about the police not looking for the turd who put the fraudulent signs up in the first place.

Statute of limitations has expired. Turd in question could march right into city hall, in front of the Police Chief, and the city council, confess their sins, and the city wouldn't be able to do anything to them. Well, at least most likely. This is Utah, home of the Utards, so there is no telling how their laws work.

He only lowered it 5mph? Most speedometers have that much tolerance built in. If you're gonna tamper with signs then do it big.

For some odd reason the township here decided EVERY residential intersection needed stop signs. Never mind the fact that in the last 60 years it hasn't been a problem. One residential road has a speed limit of 25 with a stop sign right in the middle. No intersection or anything just a random sign. If one of those new ones had gone up in my yard it might have disappeared the next evening.

I always drive as fast as I want, but everyone else needs to slow down when they're driving by my house.

Gobobo: I get lowering the speed limit where my family live, as long as I'm still able to do 50 past the shops and schools in other places then I'm OK with this. I mean, if a kid sees my car going really fast he/she will be too scared to cross the road making it safer for everyone and it means I don't have to slow down. Therefore I can leave a few minutes later and get to work on time, because I am a COMPLETE farkING DOUCHE WHO SHOULD BE STERILIZED OR DIAF.

I don't think anyone was advocating doing 50 through school zones. However, I'd like to sign up for your sterilization program. I'm not too big on the DIAF one, though. I'll just take sterilization and be on my way. Thanks.

ghostofreasonpast: Get Lost: shiat, my engine at idle makes me do 30mph.

/Insert standard moral outrage, about the police not looking for the turd who put the fraudulent signs up in the first place.

Statute of limitations has expired. Turd in question could march right into city hall, in front of the Police Chief, and the city council, confess their sins, and the city wouldn't be able to do anything to them. Well, at least most likely. This is Utah, home of the Utards, so there is no telling how their laws work.

They could be identified in the public record and the papers, and everyone who paid a bogus ticket due to his actions could get that money from him.

Or take it out of his ass.

hamburgerhelper: Gobobo: I get lowering the speed limit where my family live, as long as I'm still able to do 50 past the shops and schools in other places then I'm OK with this. I mean, if a kid sees my car going really fast he/she will be too scared to cross the road making it safer for everyone and it means I don't have to slow down. Therefore I can leave a few minutes later and get to work on time, because I am a COMPLETE farkING DOUCHE WHO SHOULD BE STERILIZED OR DIAF.

I don't think anyone was advocating doing 50 through school zones. However, I'd like to sign up for your sterilization program. I'm not too big on the DIAF one, though. I'll just take sterilization and be on my way. Thanks.

Hey cool, it's an either/or option. I got the idea from the overpopulation thread. But I think you're probably alright if your nice and blond and, sort of, Aryan lookin', plus you're not into the ghey or thinkin' too much. Then you should be able to fark away with who you want - we need more of yer kin' 'roun here, d'yer hear?

Half of me thinks that's possible, half of me wonders if they just put up the wrong signs and made something up when they noticed.

astouffer: He only lowered it 5mph? Most speedometers have that much tolerance built in. If you're gonna tamper with signs then do it big.

For some odd reason the township here decided EVERY residential intersection needed stop signs. Never mind the fact that in the last 60 years it hasn't been a problem. One residential road has a speed limit of 25 with a stop sign right in the middle. No intersection or anything just a random sign. If one of those new ones had gone up in my yard it might have disappeared the next evening.

Lowering it to 15 would be a bit extreme, my spedometer doesn't even kick in until I hit 20.

I'd bet a dollar that when the State says they don't know who put up the lower speed signs, what they really mean is that they finally caught up with the Citys illegal speed trap, but are too polite to call them on their crap.

bradley547: I'd bet a dollar that when the State says they don't know who put up the lower speed signs, what they really mean is that they finally caught up with the Citys illegal speed trap, but are too polite to call them on their crap.

BINGO.

/pee trap?

Trance750 [recently expired TotalFark] Quote 2011-10-15 03:07:17 PM
Lars The Canadian Viking: Get Lost: shiat, my engine at idle makes me do 30mph.

Really? If so your car has issues.

True. I'd have your transmission looked at.



Naaaa...The problem is the turn signal fluid.

NBSV: I understand lowering it in a neighborhood. Am I the only one that would have raised them on a nice twisty backroad somewhere?

We have some back roads around here that have a speed limit of 55, but if you tried to do 55 on them, you'd end up running off the side of a mountain or kissing a tree.

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+1
(personally I like Plaid)

Tony_Pepperoni: blackmtnmantheonly: Trance750 [recently expired TotalFark] Quote 2011-10-15 03:07:17 PM
Lars The Canadian Viking: Get Lost: shiat, my engine at idle makes me do 30mph.

Really? If so your car has issues.

True. I'd have your transmission looked at.



Naaaa...The problem is the turn signal fluid.

Sounds like the muffler bearings are bad. Or a possibly a loose caniglar pin.

Actually, intake manifold leaks WILL do that. Lets in unmetered air past the throttle body, the computer will add fuel to ensure a proper burn, and you get an exceptionally high idle.

Aren't there laws for dicking with federal signage, especially in Utah?
About 10 years unnoticed? FAIL much?
/prolly closer to 9, but dang...

The My Little Pony Killer: Cataclaw: That's pretty awesome. It shouldn't be up to a single individual to do this though... it should start at city hall.

My city of 400,000 has recently lowered all speed limits from 50km/h (30mph) to 40km/h (25mph) and has created new school and park zones of 30km/h (18mph). City hall has also created hundreds of dedicated pedestrian crossings, they've widened a bunch of sidewalks and created some where there were there none to begin with.

The battle to reduce automobile dependency and promote livable, walkable cities continues :)

Here in Seattle, drivers gnash their teeth and call it the "War on Cars."

All it does is produce grid lock. Was hoping all the national dialogue over "infrastructure" would address some of our roads but all that came of that was a few pet projects.

Some areas are completely unliveable. Like Boston, unless you can afford a multi-million dollar house in cambridge you can look forward to a 2 hour commute everyday. Absolutely nonsensical traffic problems are never fix, like having two highways merge into two lanes, back traffic up for 20 miles everday, yet will never get fixed as the elites are more concerned with their bike paths and property values.

Fark that. I don't know how anybody lives like that.

Old one-mug says the speed limit is c.

xl5150: I always drive as fast as I want, but everyone else needs to slow down when they're driving by my house.

Amen bro! The speed limit is whatever I SAY it is!!

NBSV: I understand lowering it in a neighborhood. Am I the only one that would have raised them on a nice twisty backroad somewhere?

The approach road to Mt. Rainier National Park is 50 MPH, and this is the only explanation I can think of for that, because I was doing 25 and spinning out on some of the curves.

/Also, any Montana or Canadian road near Glacier and Waterton National Parks. 65 MPH WTF.