I read your comments on the Speed Tax Collectors in this province with near total agreement, although I also agree (in principle) with the officer who responded to these observations. Bottom line is - I think folks like us could live in reasonable harmony with the boys in the bright white sports cars IF the speed limits were reasonable, reasonably enforced, and if the penalties were even remotely in line with other infraction penalties.  I don't think it should be cheaper to tailgate, run a light, fail to signal, etc than it is to breeze out of a nice long sweeper at a very relaxed 110... you get the picture.

With winter coming (brrr), it reminds me of one of my other all too
infrequently enjoyed activities, down hill skiing. The thing about skiing is, you pay for your speeding ticket up front at the beginning of your day, sign a release waiver, and then you can speed to your hearts content all day long. It's a wonderful system, really.

Of course, if BC ever did get reasonable speed limits that were designed to be treated as "maximum allowable speeds under ideal conditions," the learning curve for much of the province's motorists would be pretty ugly, wouldn't it? They've got everyone so well trained to travel 5 to 10 kph faster than the posted limit at all times and regardless of road conditions that any realistic limit would have people killing themselves at a furious pace. Too bad really. It would take a lot of education and transition to get to a sensible system.

Ever notice that the same caged calamari that fly past you in that long, double laned 60 zone at 100 or so are the exact same fools that slow down to 60 in a hundred or 90 zone just because they have to haul on the steering wheel at a few key points?

Ahhh, there... you've done it now... got me started on the traffic law
enforcement / speed tax collection theme. Gets my blood boiling and makes it hard to shut me up. Suffice to say that in 20 years of motoring, I've received a dozen or so speeding tickets. None recently, thank you Lord. 

Anyway, of those tickets, I can only think of ONE where I was actually driving too fast, and even that was iffy. Every other case was the typical you can see to eternity, there's no traffic, and I'm just rolling along in a perfectly safe and reasonable matter. Once, the cop told me, "well, there are some curves on this road that you couldn't take at that speed..." !!! The curves he was talking about were 80 or 90 km down the highway from where I was ticketed! Give me a little teensie bit of credit... I know how to use the other pedals, too.
Michael Prestwich  mprest@rodeo.sd27.bc.ca