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Re: Why it's set at 55 m.p.h...



geraghty@clark.net (P.J. Geraghty) writes:

   To add to Jonathan's point, one more reason speed limits are set absurdly 
   low is to appease neighborhood residents.  

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This is in no way meant to be a personal attack or a flame.  Your post
does, however, seem to capture all too well the attitude of a large number
of area "vehicle operators" ["driver" gives too much credit to some], an
attitude I've seen displayed on this group time and time again.


Being a resident of a neighborhood, I am slightly offended at the
implication that I need to be "appeased", as if the existance of my
street were primarily for someone else's benefit, and that anything done
toward that end [e.g. setting a speed limit] is catagorically "absurd".

I make an effort to show some courtesy and respect [words which in car
speak seem to mean "succumbing to intimidation" more than anything else]
to the people in whose neighborhoods I drive through precisely because I
expect them to do the same.  Given that quite a few don't, though, I can
only assume that the majority of people who complain about neighborhood
curbs on traffic never notice the traffic in their own neighborhood
because they are always in somebody else's.

If people would remember one simple fact, life would be a lot less
aggrivating.  This simple principle is:

   ``The act of planting one's ass behind the wheel of a vehicle in
     no way obligates the rest of the world to bend over and kiss it.''


Sorry for ranting.  

Steve
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