• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    usually for the sole purpose of being a revenue generating speed trap. In fact I just looked it up and this intersection is a school zone with a 20mph speed limit.

    You think maybe there’s other reasons bar revenue traps at play here then?

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        1 year ago

        There’s also the word “usually” there, and I stick by it. Nice gotcha tho.

        Maybe even if it’s not a school zone there could be reasons you might want to limit car speeds that have nothing to do with revenue traps is my point

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          1 year ago

          Yawn

          I’m an urbanist, I live in a dense city, I literally do not own any motorized transportation

          There are hundreds of shitty little towns across America that survive solely off of ticket revenue by putting up a gas station, a church, and a dollar general on a road that’s primarily designed for cross-country travel by slamming the speed limit from 65mph+ to 25 within a 200 meter distance, and anyone who lived in that area without a car would literally die due to lack of a job, income, access to food, etc etc etc so I’m really not buying this argument

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            1 year ago

            Braking really isn’t that hard in a car and it’s not like you lose a meaningful amount of time doing the speed limit for a podunk town. This entire argument can only begin to make sense with a lot of carbrained entitlement