[Vision2020] North Latah County Highway District sign policy

[Wayne Price]

Bev,

I agree with you 100%! The road condition SHOULD be 35, and they need  
to be marked properly, and within state law!
What I'm seeing is that the highway district, for the best of  
intentions, posted speed limit signs that "aren't worth the tin they  
are printed on".

Imagine ever municipal authority going out and doing what they damn  
well please without regard to state laws, be they traffic laws,  
criminal laws or civil laws.
THIS is the example we give our kids to follow and then wonder why  
they don't trust government?   This is the kind of government we hold  
out as the greatest in the
world?

Do you think that the legislature put the traffic survey requirement  
legislation there just for the hell of it?  There had to be a reason  
or they would not have
put it there. Do you advocate that we get to pick and choose the laws  
we don't like and do like?   There are a lot of loony laws that  
municipal governments pass that I don't like,
but I do follow them. And my redress of these looney laws is at the  
voting box. There seems on Vision 2020 a lot of defense for those  
government workers and politicians
that do what ever they feel like, regardless of the state law, even by  
members of the local bar.  I'm not happy that the "Gang of 7"  had the  
opportunity to pass the Moscow smoking ban, which the state  
legislature ALLOWED
them to do. Should I just ignore it because I didn't like what the  
Legislature allowed them to do? it works both ways, and all I'm asking  
for is HONESTY.

Is it too much to have the highway district just  do it the right way  
and legally and to put up signs that ARE  "worth the tin they are  
printed on"?


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On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:45 AM, bevbafus at verizon.net wrote:

> Actually, I would rather see change at the state level - supposedly  
> these signs are not enforceable because there has not been a  
> "traffic survey" on all the roads.
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> I'm sorry, but roads in Latah County have been posted 35 mph since I  
> was a little girl - and folks, that's quite a while.  There is just  
> no reason someone should be going faster than 35 on many of these  
> roads.  Gravel surface, blind corners, no guardrails- many of these  
> roads were built "just to get there" - not for speed.
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> The State of Idaho needs to make it easier for local jurisdictions  
> to enforce safety, instead of making "cop-out" ways for speeders to  
> get out of their responsibility. Why do we need a traffic survey on  
> every mile of county road just so that the authorities can enforce  
> the law?
>
> Just my two cents worth....
> Bev Bafus
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