It's really not even that at all.  There is precedent for this, though.

Many years ago Montana had NO daytime speed limit on it's Interstates,
you could drive as fast as your vehicle was able.

Anyway, the problem nowadays is that if a municipality posts "no speed
limit" or some such on a roadway, then if some joker comes flying around
the corner and goes off the road and kills himself, his survivors are going
to
sue the municipality claiming that they liable since they did not provide an
appropriate speed limit.

The real issue is that of enforcement.  NOT posted speeds.  There is no
reason that a speed limit can't be posted.  However, when a cop pulls
a driver over for speeding, they should NOT feel compelled to write a
ticket.  Unfortunately, in most police departments the cops who don't
write a lot of traffic tickets are viewed as being slackers and not doing
their jobs.  So even if a cop really doesen't want to write a ticket, most
times he is going to write one.  And in small municipalities their city
budget is utterly dependent on the ticket revenue.

For example in OR, there's a town named Colby I think that is on I-5
that get's 1/3 of it's town revenue from tickets.  At one point it was
1/2 of it's budget - to the point that the OR legislature passed a law
prohibiting towns along interstates from getting ticket revenue if the
interstate wasn't in city limits - Colby then took advantage of a loophole
in the law and annexed something like a mile of freeway.  There's been
further attempts in the legislature to correct this but nothing has come
of it yet.

The ideal situation is that the cop's job performance should not be
dependent on how many tickets he writes, unfortunately not a lot
of police departments are setup this way.

In my town, PDX, the local police department every week picks
a different busy intersection in the city and stings it - they sit there
with 5-6 cop cars just writing tickets for the damdest little things,
to every car that comes though.  You fail to signal, you get a
ticket, you lane change too soon after turning you get a ticket,
etc. etc.  One time I remember they took a freeway exit
from I-5 that went into a trucking industrial area, and had a stop
sign on it, and for a period of 3 weeks, replaced the sign with
overhead traffic lights, and wrote an ungodly number of failure
to stop at red light tickets, then took down the traffic light and
replaced the stop sign.  It costs about $80K to put in overhead
traffic lights in an intersection.

Then every 6 months the cops do a public relations
push claiming they need more money to pay for more officers
to do gang-enforcement policing and such, and that city residents
should write to the mayor demanding more money be put to
the police department.  And then they complain when nobody
writes in.  There's a cause and effect here that's obvious to
everyone in the city except for the cops and (apparently) the
chief of police.

In my opinion the only real solution is for a city to separate
the job of traffic enforcement from the police dept.  The police
dept. should be solving murders, theft, muggings, etc.  A separate
bureau in the city should be handling traffic enforcement and
writing tickets - the same bureau that currently writes parking
tickets.   And instead of just collecting the fine they should be
running the drivers through traffic school to try to teach them
better behaviors.

We have all read plenty of stories of cops writing tickets by the
side of the road and getting side-swiped and put into the
hospital.  Well, think of how expensive it is for a city to put a
fully certified cop on the beat, then pay for his disability for
the next 20 years as a result of a fuckup like this. We also
have to outfit cops with high-powered cars so they can
chase down bank robbers and suchlike.  It's only natural
that their instinct is to stomp on the gas and go roaring down
through a residential area if they see a speeder.

It would be far better for a meter maid driving some el-cheapo
Honda Accord that isn't in cop-car colors, and who sees a speeder
to simply radar them, record the plate number then feed it into a
city computer that can take a look at the drivers past record,
the weather conditions, the road conditions, road location, type
of car, amount of speed, and so on and just make a judgement on
whether to issue a ticket or not.  Like if the car is a sedan going
40 in a 35 zone in sunny weather on a main arterial, then don't
issue the ticket - OTOH if the car is a sports car and the driver
has had 2 other tickets, then issue the ticket.  Since the meter maid
doesen't pursue, they are also unlikely to be pulling people over in
unsafe locations.

Ted

"Tom" <tjctransport@optonline.net> wrote in > the only problem with your way
of thinking is, most people do not have any common sense, or the brains to
use common sense.

in other words, you believe what your police state tells you to believe and
think what they want you to think.  You're saying that Americans don't have
any common sense, but people that live in countries with no speed limits do
have common sense.  I just came back from a country that has no speed limits
and didn't see any burning wreckage blocking the freeway during the time I
was there.