quote:It would be reckless to slow to 45mph on the freeway so as to not be speeding on the exit ramp.
Reckless driving. Plain and simple. Ticket them all.
quote:It would be reckless to slow to 45mph on the freeway so as to not be speeding on the exit ramp.
Reckless driving. Plain and simple. Ticket them all.
quote:I am talking about the tickets being given while on an exit ramp, not a feeder road.
You have plenty of time to slow to 50 off the highway. If you are concerned about not being able to then slow to 70 before exiting. If you can not safely slow 20mph on an exit ramp then please hand your license over because you obviously can't drive. Not directed at you, just stating my opinion.
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You have plenty of time to slow to 50 off the highway.
quote:So don't speed.
CSPD is just looking for a speed trap and they found it.
quote:I misread your post. I thought you meant the feeder road speed limit. That sign is posted directly in front of you as you exit the highway.quote:I assume you mean a yellow caution sign with a suggested speed. Those are not indicative of an actual legal speed limit.quote:
There is a difference between enforcing feeder road speed and un-posted entrance/exit ramp speed.
It is posted. I drove the area in question a couple of days after the OP.
quote:Most exit ramps have cautionary speed signs, but they are not mandatory. The purpose of the ramps is to allow you to exit, or enter, the freeway safely by adjusting your speed to the traffic you will be merging with. Since the speed limit on the feeder road in front of Academy is 50 mph, it would be reasonable to assume the ramp would be 75 mph when you began your exit and 50 mph when you merged to the feeder.
There is not a separate speed limit for the exit ramp itself. Perhaps you were told wrong or misunderstood. The limit on the feeder road is in fact 50 MPH.
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There were 2 motorcycle cops on the south feeder in Bryan between Lowes and the Dodge dealership. I was going down it to eventually get onto the bypass and was set at 55mph (that's the speed limit right there) and another person is exiting right next to me, clearly going faster (my guess 60-65 mph) and the two cops were doing but looking at each other talking and totally didn't see this guy going faster than us others and weaving through the lanes.
quote:Blue flus happen all the time. Things pretty muched function as they always do.
I would love to see all cops take 24 hours off.
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"violated my rights
quote:why is a cop needed, again?
When a cop is needed because somebody got t-boned at a red light, please do NOT call them.
quote:Fortunately, cops can only cite for things that are actually illegal. If it was inevitable, all the cop had to do was wait a second or two for them to hit the feeder.
I guess I just think it's common sense to think that an exit ramp going from 75 mph on the bypass to 50 on the access road should be used to decelerate down to the speed limit you are entering onto.
If your co-worker was still going 64 on that short exit ramp, then they were GOING TOO FAST and was never going to be able to slow to the posted speed limit when they entered the access road. Not without some serious braking. Which is dangerous.
If the cop didn't get them on the ramp, they'd still have them speeding in the 50 mph zone once they left the ramp 100 feet away.
You're going on about "posted speed limits" and ignoring that your co-worker was still going too fast off that exit ramp approaching a very active and busy road, with cars jockeying into the left lane to use the on ramp and other vehicles going into and pulling out of the Academy parking lot.
I take that exit often, and I and most other vehicles I follow will start slowing down under the bridge at Southwest Parkway before entering the exit ramp.
quote:First let me say that I am not saying that your co-worker is not telling the truth. I will say that unless you have both perspectives you do not have the whole story. I will also say that in all the years I have been on TexAgs, I have checked out poster's (with their permission) stories and I have never found the version posted on this forum to be totally accurate. One example was a story where a poster insisted that he was cited for going 1 mph over the limit. He sent me his info so I could verify and I found he was actually cited for 10 over-on a residential street. Big difference.
given em hell,,,
I am not the OP, nor am I the one that go the ticket. I merely posted a reply to the OP. My co-worker had literally just called us to tell us she had just been ticketed. I have no problem with someone getting a ticket for speeding. The problem is she was clocked as she was exiting hwy 6 ( on the exit ramp) where there is NO speed limit sign. So yes, she should dispute the ticket. Will she win? Who knows, but that cop was wrong in my opinion.
quote:http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/Men-Arrested-For-Attempted-Theft-Of-Tires-And-Rims-In-College-Station-331785241.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KBTX_Mediaquote:
You have plenty of time to slow to 50 off the highway.
not all ramps are created equal, some are much shorter than others. If someone is tailing you closely and you hit the brakes from 75 down to 50, that's equals a wreck.
CSPD is just looking for a speed trap and they found it. Too bad they can't spend the extra time in south CS patrolling neighborhoods at night, while countless rims get stolen. There isn't money to be made there though. and for the record, I live in Bryan.