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Memorial Drive is increasingly congested during rush hour. The Cambridge Police Department (CPD) has even installed speed clocks on Sidney and Brookline Streets, comparing drivers' speeds to the 25 mph limit...
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...diminishing freedom. Most people don't hunt or collect guns, and so they cannot see the restrictiveness of these laws. Maybe someday people will start getting in record numbers of car accidents. Should legislators then start making car companies install devices in all cars that limits speed to 55 mph? Or rather should we hold people responsible for their own actions (gasp)? The problem isn't everybody, it's the bad drivers. Make it tougher to get a license but don't become Big Brother and hold everyone back...
...pantomime of nasty proctological hydraulics. With his other hand, he flicked the steering wheel to the left in a spasm of menace, as if he meant to run me off the road. A complete stranger wanted me dead - or anyway, he played at it for a moment. At 75 mph, I had blocked the left lane. I had made him late for an IPO, I suppose...