Let me begin by saying that I am not a habitual speeder; I never deliberately seek to wail through this town like the speed limit signs were written in Chinese. What my bitch is about is how some places in this damn town it feels like there’s a conspiracy going on between city hall’s speed limit setters and the cops who like to stake out the “shooting fish in a bucket” ambush chokepoints the city creates. What a transparent money grab! Case in point: Akerley Blvd in Burnside – a 4 lane street like many of others. Coming off the highway into town, the upper part’s limit is 80km/hr, but at the bottom of the hill where it meets Burnside drive the limit suddenly changes to 50, and it’s in the parking lot at the opposite side of this transition the donut horfing fuzz like to trap poor suckers like me who might just miss that little sign. Now here’s why it is a big piss off: many similar major roads around town are limited at 70km to 80km/hr because they are major arteries (ex. Burnside drive, Forest Hills Parkway in Cole Harbour, which I would like to point out is only 2 lanes through a RESIDENTIAL area – it even has crosswalks) but for some fucking stupid reason Akerley blvd is set at 50 at the place I have mentioned. Why? I submit its because the city and cops have got too good of a ticket spree racket going to change it to what it ought to be.
—Traffic Cops’ Bitch
This article appears in Jan 7-13, 2010.
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I completely agree with the bitch though, another brutal place for this is when you are coming into dartmouth from cole harbour by Ben’s and Dave’s. The speed limit goes from 70km to 50km while your on a small hill and the cops hide behind a concrete wall in a parking lot. Getcha every time.
Couldn’t be because of the traffic lights there and people like to drive like maniacs there? Nah, didn’t think so.
Fool me once shame on you…fool me twice or thrice…shame on the dumbass that keeps getting speeding tickets on the same stretch of road.
I got nailed right outside Truro once…never happened again.
Guess next time you know better – and maybe as a driver watch for them “little signs” that denote traffic speed? Fuckin dummy.
No sympathy here. You can see the speed limit sign far away enough to give you plenty of time to slow down. Speeding is a fine for a reason.
Don’t speed anywhere in HRM, you’ll get nabbed. And it is because of this recon like approach that will get you. The circumferential by Russell Lake and also by Mic Mac as well as leading on the the new bridge coming from Dartmouth, drops from 80-50, are all bad aslo.
Wright Avenue above John Savage @ 50 is retarded too. Nothing but trees…
That being said, most drivers in HRM can’t handle 30, judging BY THE NUMBERS THAT DRIVE 25 KM/H MERGING ONTO THE CIRC!!!!!!!FUCKERS!!!!! IT’s A HIGHWAY!!!!!!
My dad got nailed coming off of the 102 onto Bayers road. Cops are notorious for sitting there waiting for speeders (which is pretty plentiful)…and guess what, OP? HE NEVER DID IT AGAIN. Yah, a $250 or whatever ticket cured that. He’s cautious around there to the point of annoyance now. heh.
Dude called “the weedhog” calls me the fucking dummy. The point of this bitch wasn’t to defend speeding, or to claim that the “signs were tiny”, it was to point out the fact that speed ZONING in this city is fucked for a reason: to create cash mines for the city in the form of easy-to-ambush speedtraps at transition points.
But then again if you weren’t in a pot induced haze, you could have got the point of that…
based on your bitch, you seem to know the limit quite well… sounds like this will never be a problem for you again. sounds to me like it all works.
fair or justworthy? maybe not, but you seem to know your way around now…
Another spot to watch out for is on Dunbrack heading towards Fairview…speed limit changes from 80 to 50, and the cops like to sit there and wait also.
What’s the fucking problem here?!! If you asshats know where the fucking speed limit signs are, then fucking slow down for fuck sakes. They’re not open for interpretation, and until you whiners get jobs as city planners, suck it the fuck up!!
Even if it is a cluster fuck on how they zone speed in the city OP – even in my pothead haze I know to follow the limit and not get nabbed . SO me with no tickets and you with one – your still the fuckin dummy – jesus even potheads know not to speed – whats your excuse?