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[deleted] t1_j67kgx3 wrote

It’s easy to avoid getting a ticket. Follow the state speed limit on urban surface roads (25 MPH) and the school signs are easy to see. I’ve never known anyone doing 25 getting a school zone ticket — they’re usually 10 miles over the urban surface street speed limit.

It’s not uncommon to get people illegally passing me on surface streets when I’m doing 25 and they want to blast by at 40. I have zero sympathy for such unsafe driving.

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sailri t1_j6ej41h wrote

Actually if there are urban surface roads with a 30 MPH or 35 MPH speed limit - are you saying you do 25, and you expect that others do to? Well that sort of defeats the use of signage all together then. Do you want to name a specific city with urban surface roads, I'm sure commenters could point out 30-40 MPS limits being posted in some of them.

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[deleted] t1_j6ejas0 wrote

Obviously if there’s a divided highway, that’s a different story.

But most New Englanders seem to take offense at the idea that they should drive safely and follow the rules. That’s why those cameras are there — the pedestrian fatality rate in the northeast is appalling.

Some idiot blasting down Branch Ave or Gano Street at 40 MPH isn’t the same as a drive down a divided highway. (Though they seem to think it is).

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