What Speed Limit ????????

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Originally Posted by Bear Islander

WOW! Not one speeding ticket written. That is great. I was hoping the SL would work but never imagined it would work that well. After all, the purpose of the SL was to keep boats under 45/25. If NO tickets were written then the law is doing EXACTLY as it was intended.

For years the opposition has been asking to see the evidence that a speed limit could work, now we have that proof. And it was accomplished without anyone, Marine Patrol included, having to go to court or pay a fine. A win, win all around.


Hazelnut - There were reams of information supporting the SL. Tourist complaints, lost business, deaths, noise, water quality reduction, camps unable to send out boats etc. You may not agree with these, but to say these arguments don't exist? come now! Many businesses INCLUDING MARINAS came out for the SL.

Your solution is increased education and Marine Patrol funding. Great ideas that are not going to happen. Better an imperfect solution that can be implemented, than a perfect solution that we will NEVER see.

BI this was completely predicted.

If you read back in the older threads when this was being discussed it was being argued that the test zones yielded no data because the fast boats just avoided them. It was said then that if the whole lake was to be tested we would see much different results. It was argued on here and at our state house as the reason for implementing a two year test.

Opponents back then said this would happen. As soon as it was shown that speeding was not a problem supporters would immediately start claiming "look how well it worked"... and you just did that...

It is a catch 22, and it is going exactly as planned. Frankly I believe that supporters planned this from the start. That this "test" was a hoax to get speed limits implemented so that they could say either A. wow look at all the tickets issued! See this is why we need it. or B. wow no tickets, it must be working...

You can't have it both ways.

Winnfabs argued for the 2 year TEST to "PROVE Speeding is a problem". They dismissed the test zone data and argued for the 2 year test because THEY SAID NOT OPPONENTS that a 2 Year test would "YIELD DIFFERENT RESULTS THEN THE TEST ZONES".....

Well it didn't...... so are you saying they were using this as a hoax to get it implemented? Or were they wrong and the data proves that they are not needed?

Again you can't have it both ways.