[DeTomaso] Mid America Pantera Roadtrip to Phoenix

[Will Kooiman]

We drive to Colorado for skiing every year.  We go through two of the safety
corridors.  They are 100% BS.  There's nothing out there.  If it were an
accident prone area before the corridor was built, I imagine people were
hitting coyotes and tumbleweeds.

I bet these safety corridors were built back in the 80's when the Feds gave
states money for innovative ways to reduce speeding.  At about the same
time, Oklahoma kicked up the airplane traps, and Texas bought a bunch of 5.0
Mustangs.  I saw Camaros somewhere else.

I don't know if they're all related, but I bet the safety corridors were New
Mexico's innovative way to get Fed money (i.e. $150 hammer)

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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Mid America Pantera Roadtrip to Phoenix


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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:28:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Mid America Pantera Roadtrip to Phoenix
From: michaelsavga at gmail.com
To: MikeLDrew at aol.com
CC: detomaso at realbig.com; lotus0005 at hotmail.com

I SECOND THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR.
MICHAEL
On Dec 7, 2011 9:25 PM,  <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:



In a message dated 12/7/11 18 13 33, lotus0005 at hotmail.com writes:





>

> I wonder, have the NM folks raised any ruckus about this - apparently not.

>



I think there's a simple solution to this problem.



Although there's a lot of puff about reducing accidents etc., the reality

is that this is probably a thinly disguised revenue enhancement program.

It's quite true that accident statistics and so forth will go down any place

that sees heavy law enforcement; imagine how safe we would all be if

everybody was forced to drive at 25 mph on the interstates?   So by that
measure,

the program is a success.



But if 'success' is defined as, 'slowing traffic to a crawl and making

everyone want to put bullets in their own brains', then something is wrong.

People like us understand that there are tradeoffs in life; moving at a
proper

pace on a freeway necessarily involves higher risk, and sometimes people

pay the price.   But do we want to live life like the boy in the plastic

bubble, in the all-encompassing pursuit of 'safety'?



So, here's the solution.   Go out and buy a junker car.   Drive through a

safety corridor, and when you see some poor slob pulled over by the cops,

immediately crash into the cop car.



If we can all commit to this, pretty soon New Mexico will be out of

functional cop cars.   Also, the statistics will prove that law enforcement
in

so-called 'safety corridors' results in a dramatically increased accident
rate,

and the only obvious solution would be to suspend such enforcement

immediately.



Once the enforcement is suspended, stop crashing into cop cars (or anything

for that matter).   The accident rates plummet, and this is 'success' from

the safety-weenie standpoint.   And then we can all go back to driving

across new Mexico at 90 mph as nature and God intended....



Mike

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