[Lincolnparkdc] Speed Cameras

Thu Nov 15 13:45:32 EST 2018

You’re missing the point.  I have no objection to speed cameras place so that the deter excessive speed for the location.  But the District’s policy has been to place those cameras in places where the legal speed has been reduced without placing a speed limit sign indicating the new speed limit.  

An exit ramp off of 295/Kenilworth Ave, for example, has no sign indicating that the reduced speed limit in effect before one reaches the ramp is 25 mph down from 50 mph.  The east bound exit ramp leaving DC COSTCO has no speed limit sign (supposedly it’s 25 mph) yet virtually all motorists exceed that limit in order to safely enter the highway.  

This is not a question a “game” not being fair.  It’s a matter of strategic intentional entrapment on the part of the DDOT, not for public safety, but for revenue.  In some locals in DC traveling at the speed limit could get you a ticket for impeding traffic, as well as the enmity of a hundred drivers behind you.

Perhaps one should embrace the concept that speed limits should be clearly and adequately marked and that electronic speed traps should not be placed at the precise point at which a speed limit - whether marked or not - is reduced. 

Mark Ugoretz

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> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:08:45 -0500
> From: Phil Williams <prpass at yahoo.com>
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> Keep the speed cameras and embrace the habit to slow down.
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>> On Nov 14, 2018, at 6:32 PM, Mark Ugoretz <mugoretz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sure makes life easier for me.  I?ve got a half dozen old paint cans and I?m happy not to have to go to the Fort Totten dump if I can even remember to do it ?on-the-last-Thursday-of-a-month-that-falls-before-the-first-day-of-the-next-month.?  Glad to spend 10 minutes to drop it off at McCormick on 14th & Pennsylvania.
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>> You want to go after hidden taxes?  How about curtailing speed camera traps in unmarked speed limit locations locations coming off a 55 mph highway at $30 million/year.  95 cents is chump change.
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>> Mark Ugoretz
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>>> On Nov 14, 2018, at 5:50 PM, Margaret Holwill <mgholwill at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> What a terrible hidden tax. We use almost all the paint we buy with so little left that we can leave the can open to let the remainder dry before disposing of it in the regular trash. A scoop or two of kitty litter or mulch speeds drying.
>>> Or we take it to Ft Totten for disposal if we have to.
>>> That's 95 cents down the drain. Paint is expensive enough without that extra burden.
>>> MGH
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>>>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 3:52 PM James Grimaldi <jamesvgrimaldi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Also, if the paint is still usable, Community Forklift will accept cans of paint and resell it. 
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>>>>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 3:49 PM Mark Ugoretz <mugoretz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> A while back someone asked about how to dispose of old paint*.  Having bought some paint over the last couple of days, I discovered that I was taxed $0.95 for every gallon of paint I bought to cover disposal costs.  
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>>>>> Under the District?s program, old paint, regardless of where it was purchased or the brand, can be brought to a number of disposal stations.  The nearest one to the Hill appears to be McCormick Paints at 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue SE.
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>>>>> While this information is late, I thought it nevertheless might be useful.  If it?s not useful, do not read this message.
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>>>>> Mark Ugoretz
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>>>>> *Not ?Old Paint? the horse which must be disposed of elsewhere.
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>>>>> Mark Ugoretz
>>>>> 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NE
>>>>> Washington, DC 20002
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