How can I follow you, when you’re going PSL(posted speed limit)+ 10 and I’m doing PSL-5? 
The words of Rodney king come back after the riots. Can’t we all just get along. The framers relied on an informed and concerned public to be the final control group.
My law professor used to say that laws require the majority of the people to follow them. When they are so restrictive to be absurd, they are no longer followed or effective as laws.
You’re speaking my feelings towards Volvo. He’s hypercritical of me on here 
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Heh, this AM I was doing 80+ on the ramp to merge onto I95.
Center and left lanes were passing me.
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Don’t take it to personally with Mr Volvo, he is an equal opportunity offender, after you get used to him some of it can be entertaining to say the least… I think it is some kind of Hazing Ritual for new comers, best I can figure…
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I was straddle-passed by 2 semis on the Woodrow Wilson bridge of the Washington Beltway. My car started involuntarily weaving side to side. I took my foot off the gas, they pulled me along: I couldn’t slow down.
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Native Americans are called American Indians or just Indians for short… My wife is at least a 1/4 American Indian, very large family and never heard the term Native Americans being used, just plain Indian… Native Americans seems to be a grouping of the different Names… BTW, my wife and family are all very upset over the name change for the Red Skins, all huge fans…
Technically she is able to join a Tribe according to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians which requires a minimum of 1/16 degree of Cherokee Indian blood for tribal enrollment, while the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Higher Education Grant expects you to have a minimum of 1/4 Native American blood percentage.
Native Americans , sometimes called American Indians , First Americans , or Indigenous Americans , are the Indigenous peoples of the United States or portions thereof, such as American Indians from the contiguous United States and Alaska Natives. The United States Census Bureau defines Native American as “all people indigenous to the United States and its territories, including Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders, whose data are published separately from American Indians and Alaska Natives”.[4] The U.S. census tracks data from American Indians and Alaska Native separately from Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders,[4] who include Samoan Americans and Chamorros…
Someone from India is just plain Indian, so if you can’t tell the difference in them, just ask, American Indian?
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I travel this one road with has a 5 mile section of 55mph. Before and after that section the speed limit is 40. I’ve passed many people on that section who never noticed the speed limit change and continue at 40.
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New England is probably the worse for this situation. We have old narrow roads and a lot of old drivers. I can’t tell you how many times a week I’m behind someone driving well below the speed limit and there’s nothing I can do about it except sit there. And unfortunate we have too many *sses that will drive on these types of roads well below the speed limit knowing no one will be able to pass them safely. Then when on a road that’s better to pass on, they’ll speed up to well OVER the speed limit. I just give the child room so he doesn’t kill someone.
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Conversely, one of the exits from I-287 near me empties onto a heavily-traveled and accident-ridden avenue where the speed limit is 40. All-too-many people exiting from I-287 seem to think that they can continue to travel at expressway speeds after exiting from the Interstate, even though there is a prominent sign at the end of the exit ramp stating the 40 mph limit.
I have had a few close calls with those people, and I suspect that some of the many accidents on that avenue are from people who are driving much faster than the prevailing speed.
Unfortunately, a large portion of them probably know the speed limit but don’t care.
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You’re probably right.
The problem seems to be the worst during evening rush hour, when it looks like those folks are dying to get home.… literally.
You would think whoever flagged my post and had it removed would have enough @#%% to DM me the reason why…
But yet the post leading up to it could have been very offensive as it was making fun of and pointing me out, was not flagged…
Funny how people can dish out stuff but get there feelings hurt when it is given back… I’m not pointing fingers at anyone due to anybody could have flagged it, but someone did…
THAT is what is wrong with this country, NOT people doing 10-15 mph over the speed limit…
And no Clueless33, this had nothing to do with you… lol
Flag this, delete it, don’t really care, I said what I said… And no, I probably will not reply to the DM, just curious why… If I offended someone then I apologize, but at least give a person respect enough to know why… nuff said…
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Another factor. Some areas, city, county, or states, allow roads to be way over capacity before they then improve the roads by adding extra lanes, by the time the road work is completed, it too is at or over capacity. There is a road near me that is two lanes. Walmart and Amazon have built distribution centers leading to that road. FedEx has a hub near it. A very large ‘truck stop’ with a food court. Large apartment and condominium complexes are being built on the road. This road also intersects with the road leading to the county landfill.
Drive on it there will be 18 wheelers, garbage trucks, FedEx trucks, pickups pulling trailers of tree prunings, along with passenger vehicles. You are lucky if you get up to ten MPH below the speed limit.
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Another factor–probably more prevalent in the densely-settled Northeast–is that there is sometimes no way to widen roads without removing historic buildings or other historic sites, and the presence of housing developments means that entire neighborhoods would have to be destroyed for a major widening project. That type of destruction was still prevalent as recently as the '50s & '60s, but I don’t think that it would pass muster today.
On a very small scale, one of the country lanes near me is much too narrow, but the presence of a late 17th Century Cemetery makes it impossible to widen the road. Some descendants of those old Dutch settlers are still around, and they will not give permission to move their ancestors’ graves.
I’ve been flagged so many times I look like the un building. Only rarely does anyone own up to it. So don’t worry about it. And often the post that caused the response remains. Like said it’s their sand box.
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That sounds like a recipe for great fuel economy!
Both scenarios illustrate examples of that “I can do what I want”, MFFY American spirit!
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We too have roads like that. One has utility poles on one side drainage ditch on the other. Occasionally an area with very old cemeteries.