Holy christ are the tickets ever expensive out here. I moved out from Ontario last summer for work and have been loving it. I was driving 70km on an 80km country road (too many turns and pot holes to do 80!) and got busted for doing 70 because it went down to 60km as I was approaching a stop sign. $233 and 2 points for doing 70 in a 60. I still can’t believe it. I guess they gotta make up for insurance being so cheap! —Will drive exactly the speed limit from now on.
This article appears in Feb 20-26, 2014.
The big question is will the fine and point deduction (or add…can never remember) enough to dissuade you from speeding again.
instead of being such a piss-head, how about noticing speed signs?
10 km over for me in Ontario was a $20 fine plus $25 victim surcharge. I asked who the victim was and the cop said “society”. Go figure.
Hey! It’s Nova Scotia where we like to screw CFAs… and then literally…
Yeah, fuck that noise. The worst is you’ll have to pay a premium on your insurance now too for a moving violation. Fucking cash grab from all sides.
Lol ‘cash grab’?
Try driving within the speed limit (ie: follow the law) and you won’t have to pay any fine and lose points off your license.
What a concept, eh?
I understand the law is absolute, but the cops basically set up in these exact positions to catch people going 10 km/h for quick tickets (cash grab). How many times have you seen a cop sit at the bottom of Joe Howe Dr. by the rotary catching car after car going 60 km/h? It’s a 4 lane road going downhill with little to no cross traffic, so it’s very easy to sneak to 60 km/h yet I’ve seen next to no accidents there.
From what OP is explaining this guy was probably sitting just past the 80 km/h sign waiting for someone to do just as he did.
Anyway, I’m personally just tired of the ‘well you broke the law, dumbass, so you deserve it’ mentality. I’d be pissed if I got a ticket for going 10 km/h over (unless it was a school zone or military base) and it wouldn’t prevent anything since it’s so easily done. He could have sat there all day and ticket person after person… is he really helping anybody?
id say that with the awareness you brought to the bitch board about the fines and penalties regarding speed limits etc was definitely helpful. by your extra effort the word has gotten out and could really help others that read this forum. So good for you OB for such a selfless Public Awareness post! Also within the Nova Scotian Drivers Handbook, when approaching ANY stop sign, and especially within 60 meters of a stop sign the maximum speed is 50km/h. so you are lucky you were only dinged for 10 over speed limit. However, if you chose to fight it and say well i was doing 70km/h and the maximum speed while approaching a stop sign is 50km/h im sure the judge will slap on that extra 2 points and 235 dollars to cover that error.
OB, if you drive the way you say you do, you won’t be getting a ticket more than once every ten years. pay the fine and get over it.
meteoman: the law is absolute. Don’t like it? Well, watch your speed. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
You take that chance every time you go over the limit. My dad DID get a ticket for going over by 12kms while coming off the bi hi onto bayers road. You know what he did? He sucked it up, took the 2 point deduction like a champ, paid the ticket and now watches his speed coming off that ramp.
In other words: he took some personal fucking responsibility.
Is it easy money? Yes. Because you’ll always have people who think “oh well, I’m ONLY going over the limit a little”…. well there’s no such thing as a ‘little bit of speeding’ just as there’s no such thing as a ‘little bit of murder’ or a ‘little bit of theft’ or a ‘little bit of assault.’ You’re breaking the law, and when you got your license you agreed to abide by the laws of the road and the consequences of not doing so. So so what if it’s easy money for the city. It’s not like you aren’t solely responsible for the speed in which you drive.