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Most drivers are speeding most of the time, but have you encountered any stretches of road where the speed limit is particularly ignored?
I'm not looking at rural areas, since speeding is especially commonplace there, particularly in places like Nevada where police are few and far between and the roads are wide and open, so drivers can comfortably go 20-30 over the limit a lot of the time.
A couple examples I've seen in the Seattle area:
- The Ballard Bridge connecting the Ballard and Interbay neighborhoods. Speed limit is 30 mph, cars typically go 45-50. It feels safe to, since there's nowhere a car can randomly pop out from, and it's kind of a long bridge so you want to go fast.
- The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge carrying WA-520 from Northeast Seattle to the small, wealthy suburbs of Clyde Hill/Yarrow Point/Hunts Point/Medina. Speed limit is 40 mph, cars typically move at 60-75 if traffic allows. It looks and feels like a full freeway, so drivers treat it as one.
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Miami...they either do 20-25 MPH below OR above the speed limit on the highway...add in (1) red lights and stop signs are merely suggestions and (2) the infamous exit the freeway from the far left lane at the very last second and you have quite the talent pool to choose from here. (3) We also have those driving exotic cars feeling the need to show others how fast their car goes on surface streets, often exceeding the speed limit in under 2 seconds.
Many drive here like they did back in the country they came from—poorly.
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Freeways in urban parts of California (especially the LA area) when there’s minimal traffic congestion (as it’s frequently congested.)
It seems that the lack of congestion is a green light signal to “put the pedal to the metal.”
Yes. I mentioned this recently in a different thread. If the SoCal freeways are wide open, as they have more frequently been in the last 8 months, going 80 or 85 in a 65 zone will be completely ignored by law enforcement.
I guess the traffic is so congested there, that on the rare occasions the freeways open up, folks just can’t resist.
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Originally Posted by saibot
Yes. I mentioned this recently in a different thread. If the SoCal freeways are wide open, as they have more frequently been in the last 8 months, going 80 or 85 in a 65 zone will be completely ignored by law enforcement.
There are sections of I4 near Orlando where the speed limit is 55, and traffic always moves along at 70. Also some spots in Jacksonville where I think the speed limit drops to... what, maybe 40? 35? And traffic still moves along at 70.
Yes. I mentioned this recently in a different thread. If the SoCal freeways are wide open, as they have more frequently been in the last 8 months, going 80 or 85 in a 65 zone will be completely ignored by law enforcement.
That's been pretty much the only bright spot out of this covid crisis.
I've been enjoying getting to places in short amounts of time.
Stretches like this all over NYC highways like the Cross Bronx, FDR, West Side, LIE, the BQE, on and on. Doing 80-100 on 40-55 mph speed limits under tight conditions.
Stretches like this all over NYC highways like the Cross Bronx, FDR, West Side, LIE, the BQE, on and on. Doing 80-100 on 40-55 mph speed limits under tight conditions.
Now that seems like taking it too far and is pretty dangerous, if the conditions are tight as you said. If you're in SoCal and a cop sees you doing 90-100 in a congested 40-55 zone, you will be pulled over and ticketed. A friend of ours was going 100 on the toll road some years ago, and had to go to court and give the judge his driver's license for a month.
Now that seems like taking it too far and is pretty dangerous, if the conditions are tight as you said. If you're in SoCal and a cop sees you doing 90-100 in a congested 40-55 zone, you will be pulled over and ticketed. A friend of ours was going 100 on the toll road some years ago, and had to go to court and give the judge his driver's license for a month.
No doubt very dangerous. It's not uncommon, I'll put it that way. Yeah if a cop gets you doing that in the 5 boroughs you won't have a license for a while.
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