Re: US Traffic Enforcement - was Watch the red light's in DC

[John Cunningham <johnc@together.net>]

Bob -

Oh yeah - I'm dreaming for sure.  You've just restated my point - that the
system is what it is because it's easy to catch speeders (and collect revenue),
and not easy to catch real dangerous driving.

What 'should' and 'will' happen are 2 vastly different things.  We can all
undoubtedly be assured of continuing to bend over to pick up the speeding
ticket every 203.7 hrs. of highway driving on average or whatever the statistic
is...

On the revenue enhancement thing, my latest ticket was on 87 in far upstate NY,
total boondocks, no other cars for miles, doing 75 on the wide open interstate
all by my lonesome in broad daylight.  Hardly hazardous behaviour, and
especially not a physical area of high risk that needs traffic control for the
safety of the community.

The absurdity - extremely safe highways with low to non-existent traffic levels
in the suburbs & boondocks have heavy enforcement because it's easy.  Urban
highways in major city of your choice with monsterous traffic levels have
little to no enforcement because it's hard, despite statistically having a
gazillion more traffic incidents and chances for error.

Waddaya gonna do...