Encounter with LA Sheriff on my commute to work.
#151
I underlined these two statements because they MAY be correct for the Lou, but not for the nation as a whole.
Everywhere I have lived (five different states), a MOTOR vehicle is required to maintain a 25mph MINIMUM speed on the roads. Scooters/mopeds, as well as biks, because they are not required to be licensed/registered, is not.
Also, the "REQUIREMENT" to ride on the road is not universal, either; several cities allow sidewalk riding (a source of must controversy here on BF).
Everywhere I have lived (five different states), a MOTOR vehicle is required to maintain a 25mph MINIMUM speed on the roads. Scooters/mopeds, as well as biks, because they are not required to be licensed/registered, is not.
Also, the "REQUIREMENT" to ride on the road is not universal, either; several cities allow sidewalk riding (a source of must controversy here on BF).
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Other than the Interstates or some divided highways, I haven't seen minimum speeds posted. I checked our state law, there's a mention that a posted speed limit must be 15mph or more (a minimum for the maximum). Some roads do not have a posted limit.
I know we have roads with 15mph limits, particularly around school zones. My neighborhood is 20mph. So the 25mph minimum is apparently not valid here.
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I've never heard of that one before.
Other than the Interstates or some divided highways, I haven't seen minimum speeds posted. I checked our state law, there's a mention that a posted speed limit must be 15mph or more (a minimum for the maximum). Some roads do not have a posted limit.
I know we have roads with 15mph limits, particularly around school zones. My neighborhood is 20mph. So the 25mph minimum is apparently not valid here.
Other than the Interstates or some divided highways, I haven't seen minimum speeds posted. I checked our state law, there's a mention that a posted speed limit must be 15mph or more (a minimum for the maximum). Some roads do not have a posted limit.
I know we have roads with 15mph limits, particularly around school zones. My neighborhood is 20mph. So the 25mph minimum is apparently not valid here.
Around here, they install speed humps on 25 mph roads that force cars to slow down to 10 mph (and get in my way!)
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Sooo ... 7 pages here and still nobody has a friggin clue why the LEO chastized this VC road HOG.
Well it's because he couldn't even share the 12 feet lane with a Motorcycle. This BS about excluding anything and everything from the entire lane width is absolute total nonsense. Ever see Hell's Angels ride single file ??? hahaha
Riding in the left track of the left turn lane is rather goofy also.
As for minimum speed limits for normaly capable vehicles, I am sure for highways it is generally 10 mph below the max.
Well it's because he couldn't even share the 12 feet lane with a Motorcycle. This BS about excluding anything and everything from the entire lane width is absolute total nonsense. Ever see Hell's Angels ride single file ??? hahaha
Riding in the left track of the left turn lane is rather goofy also.
As for minimum speed limits for normaly capable vehicles, I am sure for highways it is generally 10 mph below the max.
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Sooo ... 7 pages here and still nobody has a friggin clue why the LEO chastized this VC road HOG.
Well it's because he couldn't even share the 12 feet lane with a Motorcycle. This BS about excluding anything and everything from the entire lane width is absolute total nonsense. Ever see Hell's Angels ride single file ??? hahaha
Riding in the left track of the left turn lane is rather goofy also.
As for minimum speed limits for normaly capable vehicles, I am sure for highways it is generally 10 mph below the max.
Well it's because he couldn't even share the 12 feet lane with a Motorcycle. This BS about excluding anything and everything from the entire lane width is absolute total nonsense. Ever see Hell's Angels ride single file ??? hahaha
Riding in the left track of the left turn lane is rather goofy also.
As for minimum speed limits for normaly capable vehicles, I am sure for highways it is generally 10 mph below the max.
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That is a separate issue from driving according to conditions. Countless times, I've been in conditions, while driving a "normaly [sic] capable vehicle", where 10mph under the limit would be courting suicide [meaning 10mph under would be on the fast side of safe, i.e., in blizzard, icy, heavy rain, and heavy fog conditions, for example].
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Sooo ... 7 pages here and still nobody has a friggin clue why the LEO chastized this VC road HOG.
Well it's because he couldn't even share the 12 feet lane with a Motorcycle. This BS about excluding anything and everything from the entire lane width is absolute total nonsense. Ever see Hell's Angels ride single file ??? hahaha
Riding in the left track of the left turn lane is rather goofy also.
As for minimum speed limits for normaly capable vehicles, I am sure for highways it is generally 10 mph below the max.
Well it's because he couldn't even share the 12 feet lane with a Motorcycle. This BS about excluding anything and everything from the entire lane width is absolute total nonsense. Ever see Hell's Angels ride single file ??? hahaha
Riding in the left track of the left turn lane is rather goofy also.
As for minimum speed limits for normaly capable vehicles, I am sure for highways it is generally 10 mph below the max.
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I have seen minimums, but mostly on "freeway's", interstate highways and the like, where I have seen 45 as typical as a minimum. This is mostly to avoid somebody driving up the ass of a slow-poke while they're going 20+ over the limit.
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