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This entire article is predicated on a local college student who measured speeds after the speed trap happened. That student then concluded that the speed trap
by mattw2121 4y ago
This entire article is predicated on a local college student who measured speeds after the speed trap happened. That student then concluded that the speed trap was ineffective. Shouldn't he have also measured speeds prior to the speed trap?
- heavyset_go 4y agoPerhaps, if speeding in this case was measured on a continuum. If you look at it as a binary choice, either someone is speeding or not, you can conclude that people going over the speed limit are indeed still speeding.
- mattw2121 4y agoAgreed. But I would think that a speed trap would slow some people down, not all people. Lots of reasons for that, such as people unaware there was a speed trap there previously, people forgetting, etc. I know that areas in my town that are well known for speed traps definitely have a lower occurrence of people speeding. On a neighborhood road near my house we had a really bad problem with speeders. Over the course of several months, there were numerous speed traps. Today, there are less speeders than before.
- bombcar 4y agoThere are small towns on small highways spotted all around me - and some are well known in the area to be "speed trappy" and others are known to be "Wild West" - and the speed limit through all are the same 35 mph or whatever, but only one group really has noticeable slowdowns.
- chaps 4y agoThought the same. Dude should've just FOIA'd for the measured speeds before and after.
- xracy 4y agoFeels like the existence of cops writing speeding tickets as an income stream is probably proof of this...