Originally Posted by
murphstahoe
Strange but true (paraphrasing a bit) - speed limits under 25 MPH are not legal in California. There might be some exception based on showing a survey that cars typically drive at that lower speed.
This particular stretch of road has a 25 MPH speed limit. Based on local concerns the cops started vigorously enforcing the speed limit. All of the tickets were dismissed because the traffic survey showed that the typical speed on El Monte is much higher than 25 MPH. California law indicates that radar cannot be used to enforce the speed limit if the speed limit is lower than the 85th percentile speed on the road.
Los Altos Hills decided to leave the unenforcable 25 MPH speed limit in place rather than raise the speed limit to an enforceable number. Hard to say what is the correct call.
I just don't understand how it is that if the majority of people at a particular place break a law it then becomes OK to break that law at that place..... does that mean that is the majority of drivers road rage cyclists on a particular road then it becomes legal to do so? that's the message being sent, and maybe that's why so many drivers seem to obey the laws that they think
should exist rather than the ones that actually do.