Anyone in Georgia may remember the 2006 political campaign commercials for Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue with the slogan "Sonny did" as in Sonny Perdue "did" so much for the state.
Well, Sonny is doing it again. Wasting time in some laim bad ass idea of "cracking down on speeding drivers". And I just heard the governor himself say in a news conference that he is one of the average Georgia drivers that exceeds the speed limit.
Yes, Sonny does that too!
I drive a lot for work and I drive within the flow of traffic. If everyone is going 80 on a rural stretch of an interstate, I am not the slow poke to break the flow! If I were, then I am creating a safety hazard.
SPEED LIMITS ARE REVENUE SOURCES!
In my business I drive hundreds of miles a day traveling throuout the state. I frequent long stretches of I-75, I-16, US 341, Georgia 300 and Georgia 96. And I can tell you that the speed limits are a JOKE in many areas. They only exist to create revenue for local governments. Why else would the town of Byron Georgia police give tickets on an interstate hwy that has one exit on the edge of their town?
Why is there a 45 mph speed limit through the town of Warwick GA (home of the national GRITS festival!) on a 4 lane GA-300? So their lone police officer could raise revenue to make up for the meager income the tiny town gets from its Dollar General store? This highway has a 65 speed limit and a 55 speed limit as you enter Albany. But Warwick is special and you must slow down as you BYPASS the actual town (which is off the highway)
Georgia hwy 96 between Ft. Valley and Columbus is a newly widened open 4 lane highway with a short one mile section that runs through the town of Reynolds. Appropiately, the speed limit through Renynolds is reduced. But 10 miles west, this highway BYPASSES the town of Butler. And this open road remains at 55 mph while clearly designed for 65 mph or higher.
How much revenue does the Taylor county Sheriff's dept and Butler police raise from HWY 96 in a county that still has segregated high school proms? (I had to throw that in!)
ARE POLITICIANS EXEMPT FROM SPEED LIMITS?
I challenge anyone driving along a Georgia interstate to look at the license plates of the vehicle that just passed you like you were standing still. Does that vehicle have one of those special license plates with a CAPITAL symbol on it? It could be a "State representive" or other state or US political office identified on the bottom of the license plate.
Find a license plate like I just described on an unmarked Crown Victoria or on some large SUV or European Luxury car and notice that person is not only exceeding the speed limit but yapping on their cell phone at the same time. And one of those politicians just had a press conference announcing his plan to crack down on speeding and unsafe drivers.
What @#$%#$ hyprocracy!
Im keeping my cruise control set! I never had a speeding ticket before and I want to keep it that way! They want to double the fines!
News article below!
Crackdown on 'Super Speeders'
(WSB Radio) -- Saying speed is responsible for 20 percent of Georgia's fatal automobile accidents, the rising cost of trauma care and traffic congestion, Governor Sonny Perdue is proposing increasing the fines paid by drivers who violate the state's speed limit.
Perdue wants "hundreds of dollars" tacked on to the punishment handed out to motorists who get pulled over going more than 85 miles an hour on interstate and four lane highways and 75 miles an hour on two lane roads.
Perdue says "Georgia's drivers are among the fastest in the nation, and we've got to stop the excessive speeding."
The money collected through the fines would help offset costs at the state's fifteen trauma care centers.
Law enforcement also backs Perdue's proposal. Georgia State Patrol spokesman Larry Schnall says "we support anything to get people's attention and slow them down."
Statistics show the average Georgia motorist drives 20 miles an hour over the posted speed limit.
1 comment:
Yes and they keep "cracking down" more. It seems I see the pigs out everywhere now up in the northern part of the state, and I have to deal with a road that is signed at 35 that was previously 50 (and was formerly a state highway) all the time. One of the reasons the crooks have them so low is that they have a 15 MPH "pad" that is supposed to stop speed traps in Georgia, but the way they get around it is by deliberately dropping the speed limit 10-15 miles below that pad so that nothing interferes with their revenues.
It is pretty telling that not a single county road in the two counties I live in no matter how rural, straight or undeveloped is signed over 45 MPH and most of the lesser roads are signed at such ridiculous speeds as 30. And yes, these are enforced with an iron fist. I found out the hard way.
It is so corrupt, and I attempted to convince a couple commissioners to raise the speed limits to what people actually drove, but was of course ignored because revenues and police power speak louder than motorist and individual rights. It's a conspiracy between the police, judges, mayors/county commissiones and insurance agencies to f*ck us over. If it wasn't, speed limits would be advisory and you would only be ticketed for wrecking or causing someone to wreck. I have arguments with people about this, too. I wish they would wake up.
I'll be joining the National Motorists Association by next year if that tells you anything. There is no reason that straight, open two-lane highways in rural South GA should be signed at any less than 70.
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