2600 cars a day
2600 people pass through the Uplands every day. Sitting on my porch, I can easily assess that the vast majority of them speed and or blow our stop signs. I would put the figure around 75% to 80% of them. Many of them don't even bother to slow down.
So I read the other day that they were gonna tack on another $25 in fines to Court Supervision for people with moving violations. It seems the PD needs more money to replace their aging cars... that or they want to get their hands on some new hot cop model Dodge Chargers. Either way it got me back to the Uplands.
This whole cut through traffic 'problem' has been simmering for some time, leading neighbors to suggest lowering the speed limit further and adding more stop signs. Yeah... as if that is going to work. If the PD actually enforced the speed limit and the stop signs and if they actually ticketed maybe a quarter of what actually passes through. The PD would be leveeing some $48,000 in fines A DAY !!! Do that for a month and you might be seeing nearly a million in fines. Now.. not all of that million is going to go to the local PD but even a fraction of that would go a long way toward getting some shiney new Chargers. The police presence would do wonders for improving the neighborhood peace of mind, what with all the arsons and robberies lately. I would link to them, but curiously some of them are not making it into the paper.
So I read the other day that they were gonna tack on another $25 in fines to Court Supervision for people with moving violations. It seems the PD needs more money to replace their aging cars... that or they want to get their hands on some new hot cop model Dodge Chargers. Either way it got me back to the Uplands.
This whole cut through traffic 'problem' has been simmering for some time, leading neighbors to suggest lowering the speed limit further and adding more stop signs. Yeah... as if that is going to work. If the PD actually enforced the speed limit and the stop signs and if they actually ticketed maybe a quarter of what actually passes through. The PD would be leveeing some $48,000 in fines A DAY !!! Do that for a month and you might be seeing nearly a million in fines. Now.. not all of that million is going to go to the local PD but even a fraction of that would go a long way toward getting some shiney new Chargers. The police presence would do wonders for improving the neighborhood peace of mind, what with all the arsons and robberies lately. I would link to them, but curiously some of them are not making it into the paper.
posted by Mahkno at 4:10 AM
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Why are you opposed to cars driving on your street? It is a street. Many people live on University and Sterling and they pay the same taxes you do. Do you also think that having policemen patrolling your neighborhood for people speeding 5 over is more important that having those policemen protect the downtown areas and places with more serious crime?
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