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Originally Posted by Jan
Maybe because your compromise is a joke? "Reasonable & Prudent"=NO CHANGE. How about 55 or 60 instead of 45. THAT would be a compromise.
All this is just a smoke screen. It's all about a selfish need for speed.
There are many supporters out here. We're just not into bickering.
J
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Jan...
Its really not a bickering type of issue, nor is it a selfish issue. One could argue that you are being just as selfish.
To me, it boils down to 2 things, money/cost and manpower/resources and is there a more effective way to spend the money and the resources? How much money and manpower does the State of NH want to spend on HB-162?
If you assign hard numbers to the speed limit, with the provision that any offense is tagged to your driving record, then the officer who is writing the ticket has to be radar certified. This training and certification has costs associated with it. We heard testimony in the Senate Transportation Committee hearing from a current NH Law Enforcement Officer. He testified that to be certified to write a radar ticket in NH, you have to have 8 hours of classroom training and another 32 hours of actual radar use. The actual radar use is the killer, because the marine radar gun has to be stationary when in use. Thats 32 hours of an MP officer standing still operating a radar gun just to be able to write a ticket! Then there are the inevitable court costs when the alleged offender contests the speeding ticket. Thats alot of time and alot of money for a very very minimal gain. Where is this money supposed to come from? The version of HB-162 as it was passed by the House, contains no provision for funding whatsoever.
HB-162 does nothing alleviate fear, does nothing to alleviate congestion, does nothing to reduce noise, does nothing to add more MP officers, does nothing to improve the safety of the kids who want to swim to an island, does nothing to insure compliance with the BSC requirement. In fact HB-162 does absolutely nothing to eliminate the majority of complaints heard at the hearings this past summer. In short HB-162 does very little of anything.
Woodsy