STEP Program : July (Statistics)

[kenny]

The City of Calgary released results of the July STEP program. They focused on speeders for the first three weeks of July, and during that time wrote 11,705 tickets (roughly 585 per day!!)

Holy Crap!

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From Citybeat

The July STEP Program was concluded on July 20, 2002. The
program focused on speeding infractions city wide in an
effort to keep our streets safe.

There were 11,705 summonses issued for speeding infractions
during this time.

[James]

I would be one of those poor bastards!

[trendkill]

DAMB, that is alot of fines each day///

[DSM Power]

Ca-CHING ($$$)... and they say it's all for "safety"....

[4wheeldrift]

Originally posted by DSM Power
Ca-CHING ($$$)... and they say it's all for "safety"....

here's a radical idea, STOP SPEEDING. Easy solution to getting lots of speeding tickets.

[OMOYYC]

I gotta get myself an old clunker with no suspension so I can stop speeding. Hard not to speed in a smooth car :p

[rage2]

Originally posted by 4wheeldrift
here's a radical idea, STOP SPEEDING. Easy solution to getting lots of speeding tickets.

Some speed limits are pretty low in town IMO. If you drive speed limit and not follow the flow of traffic at places like Crowchild Southbound (past Bow River), you'll probably be more likely to get into an accident =).

[Ben]

Originally posted by rage2


Some speed limits are pretty low in town IMO. If you drive speed limit and not follow the flow of traffic at places like Crowchild Southbound (past Bow River), you'll probably be more likely to get into an accident =).

Agreed...and if you get a ticket for speeding blaitently on your own and you knew damn well you were speeding...cry us a river, build a bridge and get over it...

[Stratus_Power]

i hate the 50km limit on Elbow drive ( in the SW).. damnit its slow, i go about 60 going to school and it still feels like im going through a playground zone! and now they want to change it to 40km! wtfff

[5gluder]

Maybe they should use that money to fix the shit roads :madred:

[rage2]

Originally posted by Stratus_Power
i hate the 50km limit on Elbow drive ( in the SW).. damnit its slow, i go about 60 going to school and it still feels like im going through a playground zone! and now they want to change it to 40km! wtfff

Slow down dude, you're driving in front of people's houses on Elbow Drive.

[4wheeldrift]

Driving around on a freeway type job like crowchild is all well and good, but when you are speeding through residential areas they should just arm HAWC1 with a rocket pod and blow you away.

[4wheeldrift]

Originally posted by HRD2PLZ


totally.

As for some of the speed laws here...I drive on Deerfoot by MacKenzie everyday, and the speed limit is 70. Even if you go 80-85 people still rip by you at 110 or 120...So, unless you wanna cause an accident you have to keep up with the flow...

That limit is total BS until you get up where the construction is really happening. They aren't doing any work south of Barlow now, and for like 2 weeks the limit was up to 100 but they put it back down again. Morons.

[DSM Power]

Hell yeah, even the cops don't do 70 thru there....

[HRD2PLZ]

I know. I was doing 85 the other morning and outta nowhere a cop just flys right by me

And yeah, gotta really watch the limit there...it always goes from 70 -100 and they're not really doing any work there...

[shadowz]

Wow total crack down