Spotted: Sneaky plain clothes police trucks (W part of City)

[01RedDX]

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[schocker]

I try to only do 14 over so I would get no demerits but then you have roads like shaganappi northbound from stoney where it is 60 km/h all the way until 144th on a divided 2 lane in each direction roadway so I do 20 over there. Basically under 80 km/h over, over 80 14-20.

[speedog]

Originally posted by 01RedDX
And yet, they only give you that 10 km buffer. At 11 over, they can take $80 of your hard-earned money, at 20 or 30 it's a couple hundred bucks.

Bugs the shit outta me that 90 in an 80 is OK, but at 91 you are a crazy speeding maniac.

So in your humble opinion, what would be a reasonable buffer because there'll always be someone out there that'll argue that the buffer is 1kph too low.

[FraserB]

Originally posted by speedog

So in your humble opinion, what would be a reasonable buffer because there'll always be someone out there that'll argue that the buffer is 1kph too low.

Speed limits should be set to the engineered speeds of the roads. Then focus on driver education so people will actually drive the limit and start enforcing the laws on the books for holding up traffic.

If you set the speed limits that way, it would pretty much eliminate speeding. Which the CPS should want to do since they do all this enforcement in the name of safety and the public good.

[01RedDX]

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[speedog]

Originally posted by FraserB
Speed limits should be set to the engineered speeds of the roads. Then focus on driver education so people will actually drive the limit and start enforcing the laws on the books for holding up traffic.

If you set the speed limits that way, it would pretty much eliminate speeding. Which the CPS should want to do since they do all this enforcement in the name of safety and the public good.

Well that's all fine and dandy in a perfect world but back in the reality we exist in, we have certain set limits with artificial buffers and as such, my original question (what would be a reasonable buffer because there'll always be someone out there that'll argue that the buffer is 1kph too low?) still stands.

[schocker]

Originally posted by FraserB
Speed limits should be set to the engineered speeds of the roads. Then focus on driver education so people will actually drive the limit and start enforcing the laws on the books for holding up traffic.

If you set the speed limits that way, it would pretty much eliminate speeding. Which the CPS should want to do since they do all this enforcement in the name of safety and the public good.

But then cps would lose out on $40mm in revenue!
There is no thought into speed limits here except $$$$
70km/h on twisty ol john laurie, 70km/h on straight highway like 144th ave

[shakalaka]

Apparently they are starting to target drivers going 10 km/h and over now...so it really leaves you going at 9 km/h. That's what I heard in Edmonton from a Crown Prosecutor anyway.

[01RedDX]

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[speedog]

Originally posted by 01RedDX
Last night there was a photo Explorer on Glenmore, right under Macleod. It was barely clearing the far right lane, but had the blinkers on for safety, which was nice. So basically it was in plain sight, yet the camera kept snapping away even though everyone was going at the same speed, "with the flow" as it were. Everyone does 100 in that stretch of Glenmore, because 100 is a natural and reasonable speed which that section of the road was designed for. That's why it was parked there.
The point you are trying to make is once again some kind of fallacious slippery slope argument that has no empirical evidence to support it. Just like the people who cried that legalizing marijuana would increase its use (the opposite is true) so the people who think everybody would still push the buffer if speed limits were raised to more realistic levels, where appropriate, and mandated by engineering parameters and not by revenue collection.

It's not "some kind of fallacious slippery slope argument" - it's a very valid question. I wholly agree that speed limits on certain roads/streets are set low IMHO and have shown so in other threads in these forums, but if there are artificial buffers in place, then what would people find acceptable? Setting a buffer at 10 over won't make some people happy when they get a ticket for 11 over and if the buffer is 11 over and one gets a ticket for 12 over, then that 12 over person won't be happy.

There is no easy answer here - Bow Trail WB out of downtown, way too low IMHO. Centre Street up by Superstore in Huntington - too low IMHO. Richmond Road west of 37th Street SW should be 60kph, not 50. I could go on and on but there's really no need - the speed limits are what they are and as such, we get to play with an artificial buffer which won't make anyone necessarily pleased because there will be no one buffer that will make everyone happy.

As far as setting speed limits closer to what a street is designed for or what traffic might normally run at, that's juts a pipe dream in our local/provincial jurisdictions - otherwise the limit on the #1 out by Bassano would be 120 or 130 and not 110.

[avishal26]

Originally posted by gx12


like him in this pic?

call calgary parking authority on him.. he's blocking a fire hydrant

[firebane]

You guys want to talk about sneaking trucks cops are using now...


Red/Blues flashing a cop in the driver seat... Bastards!


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[BerserkerCatSplat]

Dayum! Was he pulling people over, or do they just use that truck for servicing the intersection camera, I wonder?

[spikerS]

Originally posted by firebane
You guys want to talk about sneaking trucks cops are using now...


Red/Blues flashing a cop in the driver seat... Bastards!


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That is a CPS service truck for the Photo Radar Camera on the stand in the background. They use it to pull the SD cards from the camera in there, or to perform maintenance.

They don't actually use that truck for any kind of traffic enforcement.

[firebane]

Originally posted by spikerS


That is a CPS service truck for the Photo Radar Camera on the stand in the background. They use it to pull the SD cards from the camera in there, or to perform maintenance.

They don't actually use that truck for any kind of traffic enforcement.

Interesting. Why would a cop be in the seat holding a ticket book then?

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Maybe it was a maintenance log rather than a ticket book?

[nixon45]

Was heading home last night in Signal Hill and saw a sneaky unmarked Red Dodge pick up.

I see someone pulled over almost every night up in the Signal Hill mall area.

[firebane]

Originally posted by BerserkerCatSplat
Maybe it was a maintenance log rather than a ticket book?

There were 2 other cops with the same books and 1 guy was pulled over and given a ticket.

[spikerS]

Originally posted by firebane


There were 2 other cops with the same books and 1 guy was pulled over and given a ticket.

oh yeah, they were probably enforcing the 60kph rule when passing emergency vehicles or something since the truck had it's lights going.

Same reason cps officers man the photo radar vans, an officer has to swear that the equipment was calibrated and all that.

[Tik-Tok]

For a second there, I thought the photo-radar box was mounted to the truck