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From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Message-ID: <1989May16.024901.7940@telly.on.ca>
Date: 16 May 89 02:49:01 GMT
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ram@attcdso.UUCP (R. Meesters, Tech Support, AT&T Canada DSO ) writes:
>hazela@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Jose Reynaldo Setti) writes:

>> It seems to me that MTO data collections show that the average speed
>> on 401 is over 100km/h. I am not sure about that value, but 110km/h
>> is what comes to my mind. So, if you just follow the traffic speed
>> you'll be going over the speed limit and unless the OPP decides to
>> generate the world's biggest traffic jam they won't stop and fine
>> some 3,000 drivers/hour...

>Just a short time ago, the OPP set up a radar trap on the 400 going up
>towards Barrie.  They were pulling over everyone they could catch doing
>over 110 km/h.  This is in my experience not a common practice 
>in Ontario, but the OPP have vowed to come down hard on speeders this 
>summer.

On the 400, driving at 110 km/h means you get passed by everything
including contruction vehicles. The 400 has been notorious as a site
of late-night drag races, skiiers and cottagers bombing around at
150 km/h, and some of the worst driving habits in the province.

I doubt strongly that the radar cops there gave a damn about anything
moving slower than 120. There's too much good fish to catch going WAY
faster than that.

I usually hate radar. But on the 400, I see more yahoos per km than
anywhere else. It's not fair to compare it with the 401. Within
the Toronto area, it rarely moves faster than the 400's slow lane,
and outside Toronto, even the fast drivers are generally polite.

I have not seen OPP radar operations anywhere as frequently as
on the 400. Yet I have little pity for those who get nailed there.
Despite the considerably lower traffic volume, I find driving the
400 a far more nerve-wracking experience than the 401.
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