Subject: 1 mile per hour over the limit in a work zone does NOT result in
> aticket
>
>
> From a St. Louis Newspaper in response to the "1 mile per hour over
> the limit in a work zone results in a ticket"
>
> SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • There's an ominous warning going around the
> Internet that Illinois is starting a no-tolerance ticketing program
> for construction-zone speeders. One email declares that anyone caught
> by the new construction-zone radar-cameras doing even 1 mile per hour
> over the speed limit will automatically get a $375 ticket.
>
> Not true, says the Illinois State Police.
>
> There is, in fact, a specific number of miles over the posted
> construction-zone speed limit that will trigger a ticket, but "I can
> assure you it's not just 1 mile over the speed limit," says Trooper
> Michael Link, spokesman for State Police District 11, which includes
> Madison and St. Clair counties.
>
> ". . . If we did set it at just 1 mile over, the county courthouses
> would be inundated" with ticketed speeders, said Link.
>
> Wherever the 1-mile-over myth started, it's out there. Link was
> already aware of it when we talked today, and in fact he brought it up
> before I had the chance to.
>
> Police aren't saying how many miles over the construction-zone limits
> you have to go to get nabbed. Whatever that magic number is, about 500
> drivers in the Metro East have hit it in the three weeks that District
> 11 began using a camera-radar van to enforce construction-zone limits,
> which are usually 45 mph.
>
> The radar gets pictures of the license number and driver of any car
> beyond the pre-set threshold. Even those cars flagged above that
> secret "cushion" don't get tickets automatically sent out to the car
> owner. Each flagged driver's image is reviewed by a human before a
> ticket is sent out, with officers checking to make sure the image of
> the driver matches what's in the state's records for that license
> number.
>
> Cushion or no, said Link, "we strongly encourage people in
> construction zones to go (the posted) speed or slower."
>

 

Sorry, I get a little wound up about the subject, everytime we turn around the state has their hand in our pocket. As far as your last statement............ I guess when you get down to the real root of it you're right.

renegade6184,

Mercer Co. here. Spent a lot of time cruising Galesburg back in the 70's and attended "Lake Story University" aka Carl Sandburg Jr. College.

 

I did a few years at CSC before joining the Marine Corps. Decent school. Crappy city. Great County.