County Looks At Blanket Speed Limit
Already traveling on Hwy 166 north at 50 MPH is incredible. Highway Patrolman Corey Jordan spoke to the Highway Committee and stated “THP receives many complaints about speeding on secondary roads, which he said contributes to wrecks”. There are many things that contribute to wrecks including driving to slow. Does Officer Jordan drive 40 on secondary roads or even 45 MPH? Officer Jordan, added, the secondary roads in the county are not engineered for more than 45 miles per hour. It is a safety concern”. I’m sure there is no expectation of increased revenues from writing tickets? The state sets the maximum speed limits with counties having the option to lower those limits. So what Officer Jordan is saying is that the state has set terribly unsafe speed limits based on the engineered design of the highways. That’s absurd since every person having a wreck on a secondary road posted over 45 MPH would be suing the state for willful endangerment.
Officer Jordan said a balanced and safe speed limit should be determined, and then the county posts the speed limit high. He noted that 40 mph is a popular speed. This is just another effort by those who think they know better how we should live our lives imposing their will upon us. Kent Allard
posted by Allen Barrett | 12:00 AM
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Mr. Allard...
Amen! This what I have been saying for a long time. There are those who know best here in Giles County, and they want so badly to tell you and me what to think and how to live our lives.
AMEN / Amen to Allard & 736
Wouldn't it be fun to be in charge of everything, able to guide and direct everyone else, able to determine how fast or slow they must move by just being elected and having the POWER to do it! Meanwhile, the same nannies ignore, spit on, and defame the Bible, the Constitution, federal laws, state laws, and their own laws whenever they feel like it!
What legislative action could possibly add to or detract from the Bible and Constitution, applied with honest common sense?
Officer Jordan needs to be reassigned to checking the speed of the reindeer migration on the North Slope, wherever that is.
THERE IS ALMOST NO DOCUMENTED PROOF THAT LOWERING THE SPEED LIMIT WILL RESULT IN FEWER WRECKS AND INJURIES. IT APPEARS THAT THER IS A DESIRE TO GENERATE MORE REVENUE THROUGH CITATIONS. THIS CHANGE IS A BAD IDEA. LETS HOPE THE COMMISSION HAS ENOUGH SENSE TO REJECT THIS CHANGE.
You people would complain no matter what. It would be nice if you could get a life.
You have to admit that 55 mph is a little high for most of our secondary roads.
Speeding has been reported as the cause of so many deaths and wrecks. This would be a good move for the county. I don't believe the reasoning for this has anything to do with speeding citations.
Acoording to DOT data, lowered speed limits on interstate did account for a reduction in deaths. Remember years ago when the speed limit on interstates was , I think, 80 MPH?
If you didn't drive, there would be any auto wrecks or deaths. If you don't get to the hospital in time ... fini!
speeding in a reckless manner is already against the law - that would include driving 55 on ice, 45 in dense fog, 70 in torrential rain in the e-way, or 30 mph into a tree because you were reading the newspaper while driving
Who the hell is Kent Allard? He must be Kendrick's long lost brother or something...
Why does it matter who he is?
It doesn't really matter, especially when you are talking about two nobodys...
655 & 808 Talk about twosomebodies - distinguished above all hymanity - Saimese twits? One up & one down ought to make Guiness!
How does it work when down is up?
Spread legs to let him talk & close them to shut him up. You really need to join a side show. Someone might actually pay to see you in action! One end is never far enough from the other to figure out which is making the noise. Never know if up is down or down is up or back is front or front is back, Right??
So if this idea is adopted does that mean Mill St. will drop to 40 mph and College st. will jump to 40mph.
Will Campbellsville Road drop even lower to 40mph? It seems this is a very, very poor idea with no real purpose but to provide more money to the county and take more from the people. Crazy crooks is the problem.
It is for secondary roads only! Crazy idiots who just like to complain and call people crooks is the problem.
Some roads in Giles county should be 40 mph, some 45, others should be 55. To suggest there should be a blanket speed limit is just lazy or ignorant. If there is a road that concerns someone, it should be analyzed and adjusted (or not) accordingly.
40 mph is a popular speed? Are speed limits based on popularity? I hope that was just a wrong choice of words and not how decisions are made.
-D. Linder
Anon 1/4 8:08
They must be somebody interesting to you or you wouldnt be on this blog.
You don't have to be a "crazy idiot" to look on a map and see which roads are primary and which are secondary.Only primary roads in Giles County are 31, 31A, 64, the by-pass and the interstate. Would you like to drive to Mt. Pleasant, or Campbellsville or Minor Hill or Athens at 40 mph?
I guess it should have said secondary roads where speed limits are not posted.
No, you should have left off the whole last sentence.
"It is for secondary roads only! Crazy idiots who just like to complain and call people crooks is the problem." Saturday, January 05, 2008 1:37:00 PM
It's not nice to accuse without having enough sense to know what you're talking about.
Does that make everyone still crooks and wrong in your book?
What about highways 166, N & S, Highway 11, etc? These are State roads so would not be effected.
The Trooper didn't distinguish between state and county roads only primary and secondary.
I am a mother of a teenage driver who thinks 55 mph on the backroads is too high, and it would be nice to know exactly what to tell them the speed limit is. I live on a curvy backroad and people fly by my home everyday. There was once a wreck right in front of my house-contributing factor SPEED. I do beleive that if a secondary road does not have a posted speed limit it should be no higher than 40 mph. Experienced drivers may have a problem with a standard speed limit for secondary roads, but people we have to remember our children, when they are learning to drive they want to go the speed limit, some of these backroads are not even safe going 30.
Do you really think that lowering the speed limit will prevent your teenager from driving fast? There are already laws against driving reckless, smoking, drinking alcohol, using drugs, and excessively loud noises do you imagine those laws prevent your child or many others from breaking them.
The county is looking for more income and this is their way of getting it.
726 you are RIGHT! Signs for curves & obstructions, etc. make sense. Putting a 40mph limit on straight sections of rural roads where you can see more than a safe distance ahead is stupid & counter productive.
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