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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Let's not change the 874th deed restriction thread into the 874th speeding thread.
But just to play devil's advocate, which scares you more?
A vehicle travelling 45 in a 25 residential area, which can kill you, driven by a 14-time NASCAR champion, or a vehicle traveling 20, which can kill you, driven by a 92-year-old with cataracts that can't see over the steering wheel????
I've always thought that while speed limits are the law, they play to the lowest common denominator of driving skills. While completely impractical, I wish drivers could be "rated" for speed in various areas based on skill level, and then quadruple the fines for driving "out of your weight class". After all, you can't play organized softball or pickleball without getting "rated"
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I have a holistic way of thinking about things. I see white crosses and other minor things as starting to make a neighborhood look bad and ugly. Then the residents begin to have less pride in their neighborhood and they see their neighbors CHEATING at following rules. So, then, more and more residents and their commercial workers begin to feel that it is OK to speed and go through stop signs. I see bad behavior as proceeding through a spectrum from little bad behaviors to big, bad, bad behaviors.
I think that there should be police and Community Service AND mechanisms for REWARDING good behavior.