Highway 169 coming into/out of Thayer

Thayer, KansasJan 04, 20111 Comments

This is a 2010 update that cops are still busting at the point on either side of Thayer where the speed limit goes from 65 to 35 or vice versa. The city limits to the north are WAY out there, so you have to stay at 35 for a ridiculous distance. The new 4-lane highway skirts the edge of town where there are just railroad tracks to the east and only a couple of businesses to the west, so having a 65 to 35 mph speed limit seems unreasonable under the circumstances. I was the last car in a traffic flow that slowed down to 45 going through “town” then got up to 50 heading out of town – busted! It was the Sunday night after Christmas weekend, so the cop was making lots of money off suckers like me. $118!!!!!

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Definitely a speed trap according to the research I did. Unfortunately, no one has had the money to sue the state to get it fixed. One judge defined speed traps as areas in which one cannot simply lift the foot off the gas to acquire the slower speed in a reasonable amount of time/distance. I don't care what car you are in, 65 mph directly to 35 mph is not feasible within that "reasonable" distance or time. Also, because semi-trucks turn right, some move to the side of the road to get out of the way of traffic, blocking the speed limit sign. (In my case, another pulled to the side of the road, blocking the first sign about 1/4 or 1/2 mile outside of the town. Either way, the proper way to do handle such a massive reduction in speed is put signs up warning of the reduced speed, as well as step the speed down in increments of 10 or 15 mph. In addition, I was not given a ticket number, so I could not pay online or even look at the fees. In the field where the fee should have been placed, all I got was "COURT". So, now, I have to waste time just to find out the basics of what this ticket entails. I promise you this: I will NEVER travel to Kansas again unless absolutely necessary!
#1Jun 04, 2018Report Abuse

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