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I-76 To Be Law-Free Zone?
In just one day, you — yes, you — will be able to be ticketed for speeding on the Schuylkill Expressway! Well, you would be able to if anyone was actually able to travel more than 30 miles per hour on that road. Tomorrow state troopers will begin patrolling for speeders on I-76 in Philadelphia, freeing up Philadelphia police to go stop homicides or something. (Good luck, guys!) The difference is that state cops are the only ones allowed to use radar, and it saves the city something like $6 million a year. State troopers will eventually also begin patrolling I-95 and the Vine Street Expressway by 2008. The city’s police force, of course, isn’t happy about being forced to fight actual crime.
Sweet. There’s going to be a chance nobody will be patrolling the road at all, and then we can speed, cheat, lie, steal and sell firecrackers on the Schuylkill without any chance of being caught! Pa. State Police To Start Patrolling Schuylkill Expressway in Phila. [KYW 1060] |
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Anyone riding 76E from anywhere East of the city in the warmer months has encountered the migratory pattern of the elusive Rice-Burner, a roughly 600+ pound pack animal that travels in massive hordes as a collection of pistons, wheels, chrome, lights, and loud exhaust that frequently travels at speeds way in excess of 90MPH while prominently displaying these plumes by bobbing in and out of your more common, yet slower, 4 wheel garden-variety migratory animal.