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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 2030014" data-attributes="member: 115">Funny story,  I got a ticket going down I-81 in Cortland.  So I go, and there's like fifty people there, and the ADA just lines us all up and pleads everyone down to "failure to obey a traffic control device".  Except me, I was going 84.  So I still got a ticket, but a vastly reduced one.  The moral being, at least around where I am, you can be really screwed if you go twenty over the speed limit.  I'm pretty sure I was going faster, and I think the cop took pity on me, and put me at nineteen over. Also, for whomever suggested gathering evidence other people were going fast, so it's okay... um, no.  IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.  It just means you got caught and everyone else didn't, boo sucks for you. I will agree that at least some speed limits are too low.  Personally, I feel a flat speed based on nothing more than road design is terribly inefficient.  As I think most cops and driving instructors would say, it's all dependant on road conditions.  For example, allowing people to go 75 down I-81 through Syracuse is begging for accidents to happen left and right.  Not only is there a bunch of merging traffic in only two lanes, but in the rain the road gets really slick, and in the snow crap off of the overpasses creates a lot of ice.  However, once you get south and are going through the Onondaga Reservation, there's no reason to limit speeds to 65, especially in good conditions. Personally, I agree with the posters who have said that officers need to focus more on the speeding in residential and city areas over those on the highways.  Not only is it much more dangerous, but in general these areas are more difficult to drive in.</blockquote>

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