- Massachusetts State Police encourage speeding
- Massachusetts State Police have made it clear that speeding laws are not about safety, but only revenue.
- A one-hundred-percent rule for traffic laws
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Laws should be set at the point at which we are willing and able to jail 100% of offenders. We should not make laws we are unwilling to enforce, nor where we encourage lawbreaking. - Round Rock extends dangerously low speed limits on Highway 79?
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Are accidents along Highway 79 in Round Rock the result of speed limits that are too high, or are they the result of speed limits too far below the 85th percentile? - Speed—and safety—winning over the traffic ticket lottery
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The double-entendre from the eighties was that speed kills, but speed—at least the traffic kind—is winning. On a straight highway, until the speed limit hits 70, most drivers ignore it. - The traffic ticket lottery
- States and cities are treating traffic enforcement as a tax lottery for themselves. Why not turn the winnings over to the voters?
- Turning crime into a profit center
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Asset forfeiture and traffic laws have one dangerous thing in common: they turn danger into a profit center for government.
More Information
- Speed Limit Studies
- Many studies on the repeal of the 55-mph speed limit, 85th percentile speeds, and speed zoning.
- The Effects of Raising and Lowering the Speed Limit
- “The objectives of this research was to determine the effects of raising and lowering posted speed limits on driver behavior for urban and rural nonlimited access highways. Sites selected for study were furnished by the participating States. The study was conducted during the period from October 1985 to September 1992, when the maximum speed limit was 55 mi/h (89 km/h) on nonlimited access highways.”
- Safety & Setting Speed Limits
- “After 25 years of enormous cost to the nation, NHTSA created an Urban Myth that equated lower speed limits with safety. The evidence at every stage of the process was indicating neither speed limits, nor that enforcement had any meaningful effect on traffic speeds and accident rates.”
