Weston, Connecticut has a dirty police chief. Not the kind you see in Hollywood thrillers with drugs and dark alleys. His addiction is one of everyday life. He’s addicted to his illegal speed trap on Old Mill Road. It’s lined with 15 mph signs. A resident of a nearby town told me, “I have always […]
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How high can you count?
The biggest fear of MassDOT is not that drivers are going to revolt over low speed limits, or the Big Dig’s next victim, or the fines toll collecting robots will start handing out at random next year. MassDOT is afraid somebody will discover the plan to comply with national standards by using mile-based exit numbers. […]
An implausible dream
To support the latest plea for a speed limit reduction, Somerville, Massachusetts politicians resurrected a ludicrous claim, a “health impact assessment” predicting that reducing the unposted speed limit from 30 to 25 will cause a huge reduction in death. Here’s where it goes off the rails: “Though this bill reduces the default speed limit on […]
Now the rest of the story
I recently suggested the Cheyenne city council killed 9 people in 2005 by lowering the speed limit in 2004, with an invitation to think about why the suggestion was misleading. The big lie, which you should be thinking about as you read the latest round of “fatalities tripled!” headlines, is use of only one year […]
In which I tell a half truth
In the year after Cheyenne, Wyoming reduced the speed limit to 25 traffic deaths in Laramie County more than doubled compared to the year before when the speed limit was 30. We need to fight further attempts to reduce speed limits The first sentence is literally true, but misleading. (Terminology inspired by an important Supreme […]
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