ok some my friend just got a ticket for going 54 in 45 or 40 on i-88 in construction zone .. so far so good .. but it turnes out they marked the first couple cars leading the pack and then pulled over the whole group of cars and handed them tickets .. as she saying 20+ cars at the time she was stopped

if that was me i would be fucking furious .. id tell the fucking cop that he's a waste of my tax dollars .. and if this was really a danger zone hes ugly face can be replaced by a camera .. but since it isnt and theyre just filling month-end quotas hes just a douche

so anyways speeding under 20 .. normally isn't much around here but since they picked a construction zone all the tickets are marked with mandatory court appearance ... all i have to say is .. WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT

seriously i wish blogoyevic was dead .. and his dumb ass hire more state cops budget was cut down to 0 .. speed limits were raised to something acceptable .. and there was a local governement body say in aurora where you could tell them that their practices are full of shit

in fact as a democratic society we should vote to remove people from office and not to put them there .. that would make them use their brains once they get all this authority .. dumb ass pigs

... ohh yeah for all you - their just doing their job - pig supportes .. dont even bother

Sorry, I'm going to have to bother because the police are doing their jobs and construction workers have been killed everywhere from people speeding. If the individual chooses to speed, they then choose to accept the risk of getting ticketed.

You can count the number of construction workers killed or injured by motorists, over the last 3 years, on one hand. The construction zone on I88 is baracaded, so no cars or trucks get near any construction workers ( and there isn't any construction going on anyway.
Ya, the cops are just doing their job. But the way the law is applied is unjust. The area on I88 can easily be navigated safetly at speeds far above the posted limit.

I won't debate those points regarding traffic conditions as I'm really not familiar with I88. For the whole country as a collective, it is probably well above what is on one hand for injuries and deaths, that was what I was referrring to. Then again, I haven't checked to find concrete statistics.

The facts are often nice to have in conversations like this. I clipped this from a LA Times article from April 19, 2006.

...Surprisingly, an estimated 90% of construction-zone deaths involve motorists rather than construction workers. In 2004, 1,068 people — drivers and construction workers — died in highway work zones, up from a recent low of 693 in 1997, notes Brad Sant, vice president for safety at the American Road & Transportation Builders Assn.

...About 100 to 125 construction workers die each year in these zones, though only 45% of those deaths result from being hit by a vehicle. Half of the deaths are blamed on workers hit by construction vehicles. "It prompts the question, why are you running over your own people?" Sant said.

The 1,000 or so motorists killed each year in construction zones represent about 2% of all fatal accidents in the nation. Most experts agree that a disproportionate number of highway deaths occur in these construction zones and that much could be done to reduce the deaths.

dont play if you cant afford to pay

dont play if you cant afford to pay
Agreed - It's frustrating to take a chance, lose the bet and get nailed, especially for a measly 9 over (14 over is really pushing your luck though). However, no one forces a motorist to pace (or tailgate?) the vehicle in front of them if it is speeding so in my book a speeder can't complain, even if they are in a pack. They should have set their cruise, leaned back and relaxed.

I do understand construction zones blow. There is a perma-zone on one of my routes. The I-86/US-15 interchange in Painted Post, NY. 6 new flying bridges, 2 train overpasses, all told been digging and building for about 3 years, probably got 3 years left. I-86 has been necked down to one lane there for most of that time.

The zones drop from 65mph (non-construction) to 55mph (construction) to 45mph (construction + many shadowy pockets under the bridges for state troopers to hide). I've hit the zones, dropped my speed and watched the cars in front of me pull away while some jerk behind me tries to get where he's going 2 seconds faster by nearly pushing me. Once in a while I get to watch a statie pull out of the shadows into the gap I've left and start a pursuit on the lead-foots (or lead brains) who left their cruise control at 74.

I remember mass ticketings of 10 to 20 cars on the California freeways when I used to commute them. It is a good techinque for revenue and stories of such have quite a deterrent effect on many people (self included - collective speeding is no protection). However, I'm a little surprised it holds up in court - how can the LEO be *completely sure* that *all* of the cars were at that speed?

The state police are getting Dodge Chargers. I saw one on friday. And they are breaking out the cycle cops. Saw both of them on I-88 just after Naperville

And theres a empty squad on I-88 on the west bound side.