This article appears in the Baltimore Sun today, and we are so HAPPY to see it. People drive incredibly recklessly around the Baltimore/Washington, DC area, and just can't follow the rules. So, the state has to treat them like children and get them to stop speeding by installing speed cameras.
Serves them right. Why is it so difficult to do the right thing?
- Yes, we've all been late for something. BUT, think about it. Is it worth taking someone else's life to get to something on time? (Can you get over that?) Is it worth losing your life? **Even if you're trying to get to a hospital to see someone before they pass away, call the police and ask them for an escort. Just think before you speed... and don't drive on a shoulder!! We've seen people using the shoulder as a lane and slamming into cars pulled over to change tires. Sigh.
(BALTIMORE SUN )- Maryland's drivers should be getting the hint right about now that speeding in highway construction zones will cost them.
Almost 8,800 drivers were given $40 tickets during a six-week period that began Nov. 16, when state officials started photographing vehicles exceeding the speed limit by 12 mph or more on three stretches of highway marked as work zones.
During the new program's first six weeks, the cameras led to 3,365 citations to vehicles traveling on Interstate 95 between White Marsh Boulevard and I-895; 4,790 around the Charles Street exit of Baltimore's Beltway; and 590 on I-95 in Prince George's County.
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