North Frederick Avenue near Montgomery Village Avenue

Gaithersburg, MarylandOct 10, 20072 Comments

I was ticketed today doing 43 Mph in what, to my surprise (amazement?), was a *six lane road* (on both sides!) set at 30 Mph. This was after morning rush hour around 11 AM. Evidently the speed on 355 drops to 30 Mph as you enter the area near the Lake Forest mall. When I asked the officer why the absurdly slow speed for a such relativly empty, six lane road (i.e. elementary school near by?) he indicated a sharp uptick in accidents for the area due to all of the intesecting mall related ingress and egress. He noted a new and revitalized concentration of speed enforcement for this stretch of 355. Still, it felt awefuly exploitive as I was driving no faster then much of the general traffic patterns around me; and I would have never guessed 30 Mph for this leg of 355. So either pay diligent (virtualy nerotic?) attention to the varied and fluxuating speed limits when driving this stretch of 355 or invest in decent detector. I’m only posting this as the officer was clear that this leg of 355 would be receiving heightend attention in the days to come. Hopefully this will help some other law-abiding tax payer from unecessarilly shelling out hard earned cash as well.

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^^ Shut up, you are one of those idiots who idealizes the 'law' as a means to act like you're better than everyone else...and that people who complain about the law are automatically 'terrible'. Then, you go do the same exact thing. I bet my left arm that you wouldn't be going 25 or 30 mph on a major road like this, you'd be 'driving for the conditions' but since you're a condescending and self-righteous dick, you'd "assume" that you're driving the 'speed limit' since 'all good people obey the law and the law is always set reasonably'. Especially good people like yourself /rolleyes Some day, you're going to be driving along at your 'safe' speed which is >15 mph over the speed limit (since people drive for the conditions and ignore the signs if they're out of whack) and get nailed. Then either you'll change your point of view, or just blame yourself like the moron you are. Not to mention, you seem to know absolutely zero about traffic engineering or the way speed limits should be rationally set. Would you be one of those people saying the same crap to a black person for breaking segregation laws in 1950?
#1Aug 21, 2011Report Abuse
FYI the above comment was aimed at some 'do gooder' whose comment is deleted now, so its no longer relevant.
#2Sep 01, 2011Report Abuse

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