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On Feb 23, 2:19 pm, Rob Morley  wrote: > In article , Just zis Guy, > you know? > u...@ftc.gov says... > > > Personally, I find the worst problem on these roads to be the very > > large tractors that can easily maintain almost 30mph. But if you > > drive on country roads, you learn to live with it. > > But it's really very dangerous, and often not physically possible, to > drive under 30mph - ask any safespeeder. :-)

But it's really very dangerous to drive above 30mph on a 30mph road, absolutely without exception. Ask any motorist-hating cycling troll.

It does amuse me when the trolls use words like "Safespeeder" and "Safespeeding" to describe Safe Speed members. It carries the implication that Safe Speed members think it can be safe to speed (gasp), as if that's some kind of ridiculous assertion. When actually it's perfectly reasonable, and anyone who thinks differently clearly doesn't have much of a grasp of road safety. "Do as the sign says, it knows more than you do about the maximum safe speed for the conditions."