Interstate 94 near Beech Daly & Vining Road

Romulus, MichiganMar 27, 20081 Comments

Be careful anywhere around Michigan’s largest airport! Local municipal services take advantage of out of town visitors! This speed trap would be perfect: Between Beech Daly and Middlebelt. The romulus cop sits in the emergency turn around right after Middlebelt if heading east or right after Ecorse exit if heading west. This turn around is hidden. Heading westbound at this turnaround there is only three lanes of traffic. Many of these drivers are from or around the area and are aware of romulus cops. So these aware citizens make it a point to drive 60 in the far left lane (speed limit is 70) to make sure they don’t get pulled over (but not rear ended). Traffic going east at the turn around is five whole lanes of traffic, far too difficult for a romulus cop to determine the speeder! Anyway, this is not the speedtrap! This would include many out of town people, but there are five lanes for the cop to monitor. Instead the speedtrap is on the Vining road bridge. This cop monitors only east bound traffic (simple task). This cop radios a cop sitting in his car with five others behind, to pull this car make, car color, car year over! No license plate information is given to this other cop because the bridge cop can’t read it. The cop giving the ticket has the easiest job, he only has to check license, registration, and issue the citation. After that he makes an illegal u-turn to the other side tearing up the landscape!

Comments:
Like most rural freeways in Michigan, this area should be posted at 80 mph to match the normal 85th percentile speeds of 78-83 mph on good rural freeways. The State Police and MDOT are legally prohibited from posting the safest 85th percentile speed limits because of our arbitrary statutory limit of 70 mph, a limit that is not valid from a traffic safety engineering viewpoint.
#1Feb 16, 2010Report Abuse

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