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Originally Posted by RedBarchetta
Ron, where in Nor Cal are they setting these up? I just drove yesterday from Cal Berkeley (East SF Bay for you non-CA folks) to North OC. Even with a few rest stops we did it in 7 hours flat. Most of Interstate 5 is marked "Max Speed 70mph." I tended to waffle between 70-74 on my cruise control, and most of the time I was having to swing to the #2 lane to allow the occasional 75-80er go on by. Only saw one speed trap in both directions (a CHPer using lazer on the Grapevine...I was doing 74 in a crowd at that moment). Saw a few other CHPers nailing people with instant-on and any obvious offenders (i.e. a bright red NSX).
If my oldest kid ends up at Berkeley or Stanford, it will be absolute torture to drive this OPEN stretch at anything slower than what I did yesterday.
P.S. 110 degrees plus that big honkin' dairy farm in the Central Valley = eye watering moments.  |
As far as I know, red light cameras are the only "big brother" surveillance systems that we have in place in the SF and Monterey Bay Area. I read an article somewhere that some Cities are pulling the plug on the camera ticket systems because it's costing more than it's worth to support the infrastructure. I guess in many cases (especially with red light cameras) they have successfully modified behavior, so the revenues have plummeted...but there are still costs to maintain the system.
Driving the Cobra on the street and stabbing it once in a while or speeding is a "pay to play" proposition.
