New Driver Tax To Be Voted On Soon

Dear Pennsylvania Drivers:

Tell your Representative to vote NO on Speed Trap Bill SB 607.

Why is the Legislature so gung-ho to tax drivers? There is no speeding crisis in need of a “solution.” Trumpeting to the media that drivers are running amok in order to get the public behind the RADAR ruse makes great copy, but there is no truth to that story.

PennDOT said last year that Pennsylvania’s roads are the safest they have ever been. How does that translate into a speeding “crisis” that needs RADAR?

Penn State made a speed limit study and “…found there was an increase in fatal and injury crashes at locations with posted speed limits set 10 miles per hour or more below engineering recommendations."

Highway safety engineering recommendations are to set the limits at the 85th Percentile Speed, the safest speed with the most compliance. Why won’t the Legislature mandate setting all limits at the 85th Percentile Speed? Is it because that would end the enforcement-for-profit racket that they want to expand with Speed Trap Bill SB 607?

90% of Pennsylvania’s limits are 8 to 16 mph below the 85th Percentile Speed instantly making safe drivers into criminals liable to get a ticket. Giving RADAR to municipal police is akin to shooting fish in a barrel. Is that the reason for the frantic push to enact Speed Trap Bill SB 607?

The intent to give RADAR to municipal police is a thinly disguised ploy to extract scores of millions of dollars from safe drivers. The Legislature should end this quest, mandate 85th Percentile Speed limits everywhere, and task the police with preventing the two leading causes of accidents: failure to yield and failure to pay attention. Thank you.