http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2007-02-21-0002.html :lol: :lol: :lol:
NO KIDDING!! Why not just make the sign a white and red circle with a big bullseye in the middle-- since I have a feeling the signs will be nothing but a moving target for someone to shoot at! Scary! (But also sad)
lol.... yeah... i do that to tailgaters. get too close to my sexy XJ and we'll be going the speed limit exactly until you either grow balls and pass me, or grow brains and back off. Also as soon as i saw that sign i wanted to take a sharpie and add one little line. "Durham Race car" sounds good. >=D screw the speed limit, guys you should be going 90!
Teacher's, err...Policeman's pet. I guess they'll have a little blackboard taking license plate numbers too. Seriously, I don't see this as a successful program. Those that the DPD are targeting will never take a "pace car" seriously and those who don't excessively speed won't be effected anyway. If they'll give me some lights and siren to play with, I'll do it.
Not that slower traffic keep right has ever meant what people try to get it to mean, it sounds like as long as a driver is doing the speed limit they are expected to impede traffic from speeding. Durham could be just a start.
Given that most of the roadways for which the DPD maintain the primary responsibility are not multilane the impact of driving the speed limit would be regardless of any attempt to keep right.
uhhh... Ken, what jurisdiction? they aren't hiring hall monitors, these people have no power, they just have to drive nicely and possibly prevent others from going too fast in the process.
Actually, I think if you check it out you might find that city police, like county sheriff depts., have jusridiction on federal highways within their districts. IOW, Raleigh police can write you a speeding ticket on the beltline (I-440) just the same as JoCo deputies can make drug arrests on I-95 within the county. Pseudo-deputizing is a perfect description for what they are doing. I imagine these folks could make themselves extremely annoying.
They do have jurisdiction on the roadways, within the city limits, but not primary for them. For example, you will not see the city police actively patrolling the interstate but you will see the state trooper or deputy patrols there. The state troopers and deputies have jurisdiction within the city limits as well, but they do not actively go into the city jurisdiction without a request. This program seemed to be more in line with reducing the speeds within the city, which are generally single lane roads in either direction.
I do that already! IF someone wants to go 70-80 in the I40 construction zone I've got my cruise set at 65 They can wait. :mrgreen:
