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   <27577$53114f4b$43da7656$5037@nntpswitch.blueworldhosting.com>, Liam   
   O'Connor  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 14:39:19 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >   
   > > Speed limit signs are not put there simply to make you   
   > > drive slower for the sake of it or to give police an good opportunity   
   > > to "make money" off people who stupidly and selfishly think they think   
   > > they know better.   
   >   
   > Think again.   
   >   
   > In some towns where I live, they want to discourage people   
   > from using certain side roads to skirt bottlenecks.   
   >   
   > So, they put up 15mph speed-limit signs and more egregiously,   
   > they put up 3-way and 4-way stop signs, on culdesacs   
   > that had 3 houses on them!   
   >   
   > The whole attempt had *nothing* to do with speed or stopping,   
   > at least not at all directly. It was just a way to discourage   
   > people from taking the shortcut.   
   >   
   > They *should* have put in road bumps or other "quieting"   
   > features; but they resorted to the cheapest artifice there is,   
   > which is to artificially stop and slow traffic, not for safety,   
   > but for re-routing purposes.   
      
   The purpse is to stop selfish idiots speeding down the side roads to   
   get two cars further ahead. The purpose maybe to make the lives of the   
   people living on those side roads safer and happier. Simply having   
   large amounts of traffic travelling on a road not designed for it can   
   in itself be dangerous (for example, a narrow road).   
      
   Speed bumps are a pain in the sit-upon for everyone, including the   
   residents who have to put up with the constant bump-bump noises (or   
   worse from some twit who doesn't bother to slow down), but again   
   they're usually put there for a reason.   
      
   Whether any individual person can see, know, understand (or want to   
   understand) the reasons isn't really relevant.   
      
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