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Radar Detectors - do they work? (pg. 5)
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
so if everyone is going 120km/h with the left lane empty and some guy takes that lane going 140... hes an ? hes not doing anything to do like flashing high beams to get you to move out of the way. he is using an empty lane to his advantage. |
Like I said its an individuals perspective of what an driver is. If I think someone who talks on a cell phone while driving is an driver then they are an driver. |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
... and my worst peeve... St-John's side road just east of Yonge.... perfect formula for yanking cash from your ass;
1. Lower speed limit to 50 to reduce cars running over ducks and crossing animals.
2. Build an overpass and double-widen the road to save animals and speed up traffic.
3. Keep it at the crawling 50 limit.
4. Pay off lawyer's office to not defend clients and allow to park in his f'ing hidden driveway for the radar trap.
5. Profit. |
Or how about widening wellington street to 4 lanes and reducing the limit from 70 to 50 at the same time? Or now they just widened bathurst from 2 lanes (80 km/h) to 4 lanes (60 km/h).
They make the road SAFER to drive on and then lower the speed limit. Pure corruption as far as im concerned. |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Or how about widening wellington street to 4 lanes and reducing the limit from 70 to 50 at the same time? Or now they just widened bathurst from 2 lanes (80 km/h) to 4 lanes (60 km/h).
They make the road SAFER to drive on and then lower the speed limit. Pure corruption as far as im concerned. |
totally agree |
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| malek |
| How about 40kmh! Montreal has just lowered its "residential" streets speed limit to 40!!!!!!! Which is about 99% of streets.... that will be a major cash cow!:whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: |
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| Roweazie |
| Valentine radar works wonder, but its pretty expensive. The cost could ranges from 300-500bucks. i suggest finding one at ebay. |
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| kitchTA |
kinda off topic,
people mentioned this earlier but cops definitely have a unwriiten rule about meeting a specific quota in regards to tickets.
I go to school at WLU and there is literally NO parking available by the school so most people have to park on streets around the school. Being "the most intelligent community in the world" (waterloo, actually won this award..) they decided to make a bylaw that no car can be parked on the side of any waterloo street for more than 3 hours... which is ridiculous considering that ~50,000 students attend the two waterloo universities and alot of those people commute to school. the city knows very well that there is not enough parking around these schools and decides to nab students for parking there. people like myself who commute to the school usually bunch their schedule to get all the classes over with so they dont have to drive back and forth... and three hours is a ridiculously short time to expect people to park.
What happens is at around 10:00 am parking "people" go around and chalk the tires of all the people that are parked around the streets around the school. three hours later they come back and if the tire is in the same spot, identified by the chalk, than the person gets a ticket.
There is NO LOGIC behind these retarded bylaws waterloo has made. I actually have a permit to park at WLU but all of the lots are ALWAYS, ALWAYS full. The first class starts at 8:30 and at about 8:35 there is NO PARKING AT ALL>!>!>!.
Ive actually spoken to a person that works for the city and they said that the vast majority of the tickets they issue are around the two universities.
cities are specifically creating situations in which to make even more money off of the students
just venting some anger.... |
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| malek |
you are absolutely right.
There's many situations here too that are identical, the cities uses those "bylaws" to make their budgets balance, instead of being a punishment.
And cops and the parking "people" do have quotas... always look out for the radar operations at the end of the month, they have to fill their quotas:rolleyes: |
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| DJOS2 |
If you buy the right one they work great. Bell STI Driver is the best for Ontario because it is the only detector I am aware of that is invisible to Spectre 2 Radar Detector Detectors. Basically it doesn't leak radiation like other models. Since Toronto cops only use Ka radar you know right away if its a false alarm (K or X). On the highway OPP use Ka and Laser. While it still picks up laser, you gotta hope you are not the only car on the road as you need it to bounce off someone else to pick it up before you are caught.
Overall, great investment - find cops EVERY day on the Gardiner and Lakeshore WAY before they are close enough to get me.
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| SkyHigh |
Stop speeding.. Problem solved.
You speed you get in trouble.. I knew i had a problem with speeding ..just didnt realize what it would cost me at the end...
If you wanna speed ,see if you can handle the consequence of this .
And can afford it. |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by SkyHigh
Stop speeding.. Problem solved.
You speed you get in trouble.. I knew i had a problem with speeding ..just didnt realize what it would cost me at the end...
If you wanna speed ,see if you can handle the consequence of this .
And can afford it. |
Not so easy when the cities and province artificially lower the speed limit. I firmly believe that the mandate of most city councils is to make it impossible for people to comply with rules and regulations in order to cash in on the fines and "victim surcharges". |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Not so easy when the cities and province artificially lower the speed limit. I firmly believe that the mandate of most city councils is to make it impossible for people to comply with rules and regulations in order to cash in on the fines and "victim surcharges". |
even if the speed limit is artificially lower there are still signs that tell you what the speed limit is....if you can't pay attention to the road and see that the speed limit changes then you shouldn't be drving. The only thing that prevents people from doing the speed limit is themselves....no one else is in control of your foot. |
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| chinamon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Not so easy when the cities and province artificially lower the speed limit. I firmly believe that the mandate of most city councils is to make it impossible for people to comply with rules and regulations in order to cash in on the fines and "victim surcharges". |
you seem to like to blame our government for everything.
are you like.... a terrorist or something? |
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