Comments for Need for Speed at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 34 out of 20 comments http://www.theind.com Mon, 20 May 2013 21:37:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-19872 louisianaspeedtraps.com has a file for free that you upload to your GPS device. It is the coordinates of speed traps and traffic cameras and alerts you in advance of a speed trap. It doesn't shut up when I drive through Washington. It alerts me every time I go through there. If everyone used it, it would take a huge bite out of their budget. - Jeff Jenkins Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:05:42 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18447 Gosh Morrow... are you back in the present ???? - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:31:14 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18444 80% of the so called community leaders of Louisiana are an embarassment to our state. Check it: "Honorable Mayor Joseph A. Pitre Elected 2003. Does the Mayor have a bio?" from the Washington LA official website. He's just another crook and this one is w/o a bio! Someone should also ask him what he pays his bands to perform at his catfish fest and how much revenue that generates for the city at $10 and $5 a ticket. There is no transparency or standards in the way anyone does business in this area. They play their own rules and always have. Some things will never change as long us they keep dumbing down their students and grown folk as far as that goes. - Betty Blackness Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:45:31 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18427 I wasn't on the interstate. I wasn't doing 55 or 65 or 75. I wasn't even driving. I was riding, but she was doing 48 in a 45 (or it might have been 38 in a 35 - it was a long time ago...). I didn't like the town that much anyway. I preferred Grand Coteau. We had a really nice meal @ Steamboat Warehouse, and watched the river over coffee. I'm not one for antiques or gee-gaws, but I can appreciate a nice afternoon looking at old stuff and I do it on occasion. I go somewhere other than Washington La. - Morrow Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:42:37 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18426 Got busted by the speed van @ Comeaux High School two days after this Ind went out. Pissed as a you know what, but when I got around the corner, I saw 25 MPH sign & I was dead wrong. I sure thought it was 30 & I guess during schl the traffic flow impedes it some but I'll pay my $25 and be glad its not on my record. Yeah, I agree, its a speed trap, cause school is out, so speeding isn't the big threat, but there is a lot of traffic thru that neighborhood. I need to respect those folks & pity them when that hospital opens! But I still won't spend a penny in Washington, LA as long as they use speed traps..... - Morrow Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:29:15 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18418 Bulls_ _ _! - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:00:59 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18417 That is always a manya of the lil one-horse towns, never enouth tax generated monies to be self-supportive, who in the hell would want to live in a village where the only claim to fame is a dilapadated old warehouse, where the fish, the fries, and the fried pistolets are all fried in the same deep-fryer grease, the coffee is the morning batch, and served in the evening and the evenings batch is served the next day in the morning. I;ll nevah have to sweat a ticket there on their outskirt, for I'll travel hwy. 26 & 171 to Toledo Bend Lake, from Lafayette, rather than to give these overzealous tourist trapping Barney's, a dime.. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:59:19 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18413 "Drivers were alerted to the speed trap by strategically place bill boards taken out by a local patron." I actually contemplated doing that but could not find any near enough to Washington to be effective. That doesn't stop Washington from letting local businesses post yard signs for auctions and festivals along the interstate shoulders. They must figure that is a DOTD problem ... I don't believe Washington is safer because of the ticketing. I actually think they are creating more hazards with all their highway stops causing traffic to veer into the left lane. - Horatio McGuillicudy Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:41:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18408 I have to ditto Rodeo above. How difficult is it to not speed? The author of this article says, "I strive to push it to no more than 5 or 6 mph above the speed limit while on the interstate — and try not to speed while driving in town." You try not to speed? Seriously? Is there some magical force pushing your foot down? You physically cannot make yourself obey the speed limit? I'm not saint. I go over 5-6MPH sometimes too. Point is - I know I'm speeding. Period. Whether or not "everyone does it" is not an excuse. Sounds to me like Washington found an easy way to make money off of people. Awesome. If you don't like it, don't speed. - Raymond Camden Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:42:36 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18407 The Washington cops should not be on the Interstate at all nor should any other town police. Texas has a law that a city must turn over to the state any money derived from speeding tickets that is more than 30% of the city's budget. - Pete Robison Sat, 04 Jun 2011 06:22:02 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18404 Ga, Shootem, Shootem....... - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:39:24 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18403 I've traveled thru Washington, LA too many times to count... Strange thing is, I've never seen any car crashes on I49 or its' on/off ramps in Wahsington, LA... Now I;m certainly not saying there haven't been any crashes, I just believe I'd have possibly seen or read about it by now. I understand public safety, & wholeheartedly support it. However, this is clearly a "violation" of the "spirit of the law" perpetrated upon the motoring public by a governmental agency. Wonder when/if the great "Lege's" from BR (LA Legislature) will act to close the loop hole utilized to circumvent their law enaction in effort to protect the public from poor law enforcement. The are according to the city limits signs is approximately one-half mile in distance. Undoubtedly this is the "safest stretch" of interstate in LA if not the USA!!! Shame on these elected/appointed officials... - Just A Parent Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:46:58 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18401 They just asking for someone to go off on a killing spree. - God Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:36:57 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18393 Numbers like these demonstrate that Washington is more interested in raising revenue than in ensuring safety. Much like a highwayman, there is a man with a gun robbing travelers for revenue as they pass. Public safety is that much reduced by two mph over the limit? Two mph at 75 mph is a much smaller fractional amount of speed than two mph over a 30 mph limit. From the author's account, he set his cruise control on the proper speed limit but was nailed when the unit allowed the speed to top the limit he set. It really burns when you're trying to do the right thing and get nailed anyway. Another case of government employees enforcing the rules without having to think. Barney Fife lives on. - Tbert00 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:21:24 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18386 Just obey the damn laws you lead footed couillons. Washington is following the law. There is no buffer and there should never be one, either your breaking the law or not. We need more speed camers not less in Lafayette. And you might try using the stop signs on Johnston, Congress and Ambassador when turning right. I am tired of hiting your dumn A$$e$. Six of you so far this year alone. - TLG Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:09:14 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18385 Beware if you ever go through Greenwood, LA in Northern LA! I-20 goes right through it and those yo-yo's are out to nail you! If you go through on Hwy 80, watch the lower speed limit that's posted on the OTHER side of the hill coming into town! - Rita Clark Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:06:10 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18365 When, I have the slightest desire to buy any antiques, I shop at GOODWILL, right here on Ambassador....... - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:38:01 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18363 Responses such as those posted by ragun_cajun and by Compassionate One typify the reason Louisiana has one highest rates for automobile insurance in the country. My God, the speed limit on I-45 around the Washington exit(Exit 25) is 75 MPH. Why would anyone need to drive faster than 75 MPH is a mystery. Besides, this entire issue could easily be put to rest without resorting to a boycott simply by driving the speed limit posted on the interstate and by warning other drivers of the speed trap called Washington, LA. I remember a place in Oklahoma called Big Cabin, where US 69 met I-44, a well known speed trap existed. Drivers were alerted to the speed trap by strategically place bill boards taken out by a local patron. A combination of driving the speed limit and alerting transient drivers to the existence of the speed trap should succeed in creating a revenue shortfall for the city. - RODEOCLOWN Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:23:37 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18361 Responses such as those posted by ragun_cajun and by Compassionate One typify the reason Louisiana has one highest rates for automobile insurance in the country. My God, the speed limit on I-45 around the Washington exit(Exit 25) is 75 MPH. Why would anyone need to drive faster than 75 MPH is a mystery. Besides, this entire issue could easily be put to rest without resorting to a boycott simply by driving the speed limit posted on the interstate and by warning other drivers of the speed trap called Washington, LA. I remember a place in Oklahoma called Big Cabin, where US 69 met I-44, a well known speed trap existed. Drivers were alerted to the speed trap by strategically place bill boards taken out by a local patron. A combination of driving the speed limit and alerting transient drivers to the existence of the speed trap should succeed in creating a revenue shortfall for the city. - RODEOCLOWN Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:23:36 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8399-need-for-speed#comment-18348 You folks don't know how to read? It's not about the speeding tickets. It's about the town of Washington not forwarding monies owed to the State of Louisiana. - The Original Northsidian Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:52:56 +0100