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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Give Me Liberty From 55 MPH Speed Limits or ...
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 13:36:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 13:36:23 1985
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> 
> MD. STATE POLICE LAUNCH CRACKDOWN ON SPEEDING
> ---------------------------------------------
> "Rolling Roadblocks" Are Instituted Speed Limit
> 
> (Associated Press)
>    BALTIMORE, May 6 -- State police today launched a major crackdown on
> speeding in Maryland, instituting "rolling roadblocks" of police cruisers
> on highways and warning that even slight violations of the 55 mph limit
> will result in tickets.
> 
> In such a roadblock, cruisers line up abreast across all lanes of traffic,
> traveling at 55 mph and preventing motorists from passing.


I'm completely flabbergasted!  This sounds like the ultimate admission to
the total failure of the 55 NMSL. That people have to be herded like sheep
in order to avoid fedral extortion...words fail me!  

Where are these patrol cars coming from?  What's going to happen when drivers
have accidents or other emergencies back in that crowded pack? (Probably more
likely due to crowding). Where are the troopers going to come from to assist
them?  How are emergency vehicles going to get through?

I hope the CHP are enlightened enough to never try this!  They don't even
use radar, except in some very specific local areas.
-- 
                    Jack Hagerty, Zehntel Automation Systems
                          ...!ihnp4!zehntel!jackh