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SPEED LIMIT * USA - Speeding 'cushion' may dwindle due to recession
The recession may be claiming a new victim: the 5-10-mph "cushion" police and state troopers across the USA have routinely given motorists exceeding the speed limit
McLean,VIR,USA -USA TODAY, by Larry Copeland -31 March 2010: ... As cities and states scramble to fill budget gaps with revenue from traffic citations, "not only are the (speeding) tolerances much lower, but the frequency of a warning instead of a ticket is way down," says James Baxter, president of the National Motorists Association, a Wisconsin-based drivers' rights group that helps its members fight speeding tickets... A study published last year in the Journal of Law and Economics found that police issue more traffic citations during recessions. From 1990 to 2003, counties in North Carolina issued significantly more tickets in the year following a decline in general tax revenue... Researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the University of Arkansas-Little Rock found that a 10% decrease in revenue growth caused a 6.4% increase the following year in the growth rate of traffic tickets... Troy Green, national spokesman for auto club AAA, says he's unaware of increasing complaints from members about being stopped at slower speeds... (By Dan Koeck, for USA TODAY. The Governors Highway Safety Association, which represents state highway safety offices, issued a report in 2005 stating that police in 42 states routinely let drivers exceed speed limits)* UK - SPEED LIMITNG: A3 Guildford, safety signs
Guilford,Surrey,UK -HGV UK - April 7, 2010: -- Vehicle-activated speed limit signs will soon be operating as a safety measure on the A3 at Guildford. Signs reminding drivers of the 50mph speed limit will come on when they exceed the limit... The signs installed on both carriageways between the A31 junction and Middleton Road are planned to be operating from 23 April... The installation, which has already started, will take place at night between 9pm and 6am, and will involve some inside lane closures...
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