"...Like I said above this is a four lane road, with no driveways for houses and a limited number of roads accessing it in that area. There would never be any kids playing on that road and any kids crossing it would be at the lights at Elm. I drive that stretch daily and have never even seen anyone j-walking in that area. The private school at that intersection also has a covered walkway going over Mt. Pleasant that was built to protect students given the nature of the road in that area.
An additional fact is that after the street racing incident in the area that killed the taxi driver the speed limit for that stretch was dropped from 60 to 50 in a knee jerk reaction to the accident (as if the street racers in question were paying attention to the speed limit
). Given the type of road the speed limit is too low, and it is an easy picking ground for the police. If it were still at 60 we would never have heard about this ticket.
No excuse for that speed, but lets not over hype the real danger involved in the incident..."
