Saw this article over at
Bikes in the Fast Lane, but it just goes to show how cool biker culture is. Seams French Motorcycle Police are being ordered to crack down on motorcycle speeding. But being enthusiast first, they've decided to just hand out warnings instead.
Hats off to the French police for understanding their job is public protection, not revenue collection.
When you look at deaths per mile of the United States vs other countries with higher speed limits, it becomes rather obvious that the "speed kills" axiom is BS. It's my opinion that limits are set artificially low in order to insure a nice stream of speeding fine revenue for local government. Toss in speed cameras, and government greed just goes overboard.
Personally I think artificially low speed limits cause more accidents than they prevent as it makes traffic flow at uneven rates. In an ideal world, I would love to see police given more power to exercise their own judgment on what is too fast for conditions and what is not, but without the pressure of quotas and speeding tickets. I don't blame the police for the current state of the union, instead I blame public officials for pressing a crime fighting force into tax collection, and sadly I think that creates an adversarial relationship here in the states between enthusiasts and police, but hey, that's just my opinion...
okay, rant off....
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