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...reason for this highway heresy is simple: people don't obey the law anyway. Polls show that about 50 percent of the people in most states don't obey the speed limit. The other 50 percent--like those people who say they don't masturbate--are probably lying...
Raising the speed limit to 65 would probably benefit truckers, who could travel 10 more miles every hour. But the costs of this aren't worth it. The increase in highway fatalities alone would offset this benefit. If one more person died because of an increase in the speed limit, it would not be worth...
...truckers still are unhappy, let them speed. They probably won't get caught. And even if they do, the decreased shipping time will probably offset the cost of the speeding ticket. If not, then don't speed. But don't make society pay the burden. Increased highway fatalities and excessive police costs are hardly worth cheap shipping rates...
...that rather than fight city hall, they ought to get rid of it. And so they did, voting 314 to 245 earlier this month to abolish the local government. Within hours after the city's only polling place closed, revelers had torn down the green-and-white Crystal Beach highway signs along Texas Route 87 and taunted lame-duck local police officers, who could no longer enforce the town's 45-m.p.h. speed limit. "Crystal Beach is history," exulted Marina Operator Arnold Charpiot, 79, a leader of the antigovernment uprising. "We have thrown out the city...
...bones are there, it is only in the figurative sense. Survivors of the highway construction said the dead could not be buried in the permanently frozen earth and were dumped instead in riverside snowbanks. Their corpses were washed away with the spring runoff and finally came to rest on the gold- rich bed of the Kolyma River...