Drivers are CASH COWS

This letter is going out to thousands of drivers and to all media in Pennsylvania.

Dear Drivers:
CASH COW. That’s what the Pennsylvania Legislature sees when they look at a safe driver.

The highest gas tax in the country is not enough for the Legislature. The highest turnpike tolls in the country are not enough for the Legislature.

No. They want more of YOUR money, and are furiously trying to Pass Speed Trap Bill SB 251, authorizing RADAR/LIDAR for municipal police, and Speed Trap Bill SB 172, authorizing speed cameras in work zones and on Roosevelt Boulevard, in order to put speed traps on every road in Pennsylvania. It’s a scam. To get more of YOUR money.

There is no crisis of “speeding.” This hoax is being promoted by the special interests who profit mightily from traffic enforcement. Speed Trap Bill SB 251 and Speed Trap Bill SB 172 criminalize drivers for driving the safest speed, which is the 85^th Percentile Speed. Traffic and Transportation Engineers use the 85^th Percentile Speed as a guide to set the speed limit at a safe speed, minimizing crashes and promoting uniform traffic flow along a corridor.

Title 75, Pennsylvania’s Vehicle Code, mandates that limits be set at the 85^th Percentile Speed. Yet, most of the time, limits are underposted [Federal Highway Administration study] to make it easier to write tickets. And take your money. All while you are driving safely.

Speed Trap Bill SB 251 and Speed Trap Bill SB 172 make it easy to steal tens of millions of dollars from YOU, the CASH COW. That’s what the special interests and some in the Legislature want, and it has nothing to do with highway safety.

Tell your Representative and Senator that you are on to the scam and won’t stand for it. Refuse to be a CASH COW! Demand that they VOTE NO on Speed Trap Bill SB 251 and Speed Trap Bill SB 172. Remind them that the election is coming up fast.

Sincerely,

Tom McCarey