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You are being wilfully obtuse. https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-town-suck-drivers-into-legal-black-hole.html https://www.al.com/news
by amiga386 2y ago
You are being wilfully obtuse.
https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-town-suck-drivers-into-legal-black-hole.html https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-...
https://reason.com/2022/05/08/11-insanely-corrupt-speed-trap-towns/ https://reason.com/2022/05/08/11-insanely-corrupt-speed-trap...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/speed-trap-profits-could-come-end-small-town-new-laws/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/speed-trap-profits-could-come-e...
> Waldo, Florida, is just two square miles, and Highway 301 runs right through the village, but the highway speed limit changed six times, enabling police to write thousands of tickets a year. The AAA put up a billboard warning drivers.
It's the responsibility of town planners, etc. to design roads and their speed limits for safe traffic flow. Sudden speed limit changes are dangerous, and a much safer approach - if, say, a highway runs through a village for two miles, with multiple junctions - is to have a single speed limit for the entire stretch. Not to have speed ups and slow downs, aggressive enforcement, and evidence that the majority of your village's funding comes from fines. That is municipal malfeasance.