Dear Group, There might be different motives with spy cameras at street corners and even for the duration of the yellow lights.
In an earlier submission to this group I described the only traffic ticket which I have gotten in my lifetime---and that was in the town which gets its support from traffic tickets--Marshfield with their Clinic. I was ticketed on Route 13 in the city of Marshfield as the road both went down grade and around a half corner with a traffic light. I was driving a two and a half ton truck and the yellow came and went before I could stop. A local policeman was right there since this corner was key to their trap arrangement. I had a pocket stop watch and I carefully timed the duration of the yellow and contacted the State motor vehicle department. I found that Marshfield had set their yellow to the minimum of a considerable latitude of arbitrary timing. It is at the discretion of the community. Obviously Marshfield's motives were "conflicted." Any "neighborhood watch" would have hoped for a minimum of "drive-throughs" with a long-duration yellow, while the police and revenue people chose a "jack-rabbit" light setting. Possibly some of Madison's corners which cause trouble like described by Troy Thiel this morning---have a "jack-rabbit" setting and if set to the opposite end of the discretionary range would allow a heavy car or truck to stop when the speed limits on some streets are above twenty-five mph. Personally, I have learned that I will not exceed twenty-five on a forty or fifty-five mph road if there are any traffic lights. Eric Westhagen _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
