01-18-2008, 06:00 PM
Feersty Wrote:CaptainHenreh Wrote:Feersty Wrote:Well they didn't the revenue they expected from these fees, maybe because people around here are driving safer? Actually they are thinking of getting rid of them all together.
Those fines had nothing to do with driving safer, Feersty.
What makes you so sure? I know I have, I am sure .RJ is since he got burned. When I say safer, I mean driving less time in a gross excess of the speed limit.
Well, I'll break down my logic.
Had these fines *actually* made VA safer...there'd be no talk of repealing them. They'd change the law to add out of staters, set up a special commission to collect from those out of staters, and then not fund it. So we'd have the same thing we do now, except it would stand up to a constitutional chalenge.
You follow me? If there were even the most remote possibility that the statistics would support that the fines did anything more than piss people the fuck off, they'd be kept.
I won't get into the "slow is safe" argument. Because sometimes it is and sometimes it ain't.
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