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But, it doesn't end there. New York is now changing the timing on Red Lights. The Federal standard is 1 second for every 10mph. So, in a 55mph zone, the yellow light is 5.5 seconds long. NYS DOT is now very quietly changing the 55mph zone yellow light timing to 4 seconds. That way they can write more tickets for people running red lights. NY attitude is who cares about safety, as long as we can generate more tax revenue.
The part about "7 over" will buy you a ticket if you encounter a state trooper almost anywhere in Texas. Their attitude is that they give you 70, or 75, or 80, or even 85 as posted limits in rural areas and you shouldn't need to take much more than that.
4 over will get you a ticket most places, and 2 over might, or might result in a roadside chat at least.
Sheriff deputies might be a bit more tolerant but you can't count on it.
This tight (2-4 mph) is a real concern for me since my (Canadian) RT shows Kph only so when speed zones change often I end up getting a headache just calculating the mph to go the legal speed. No, I don't own a GPS which would be a great help to show actual speed and some even warn about speed zone changes.
Your speedometer is probably dual marked
...the secondary units...
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government of the '70's outlawed Imperial measurement.
As did the rest of the world many years earlier. Except for one large exception. That said, my American sports car is metric.
And I can't believe that any reasonable law officer is going to take the trouble to write up a ticket for 2-4 mph over the limit. Heck, that's speedo error fer cryin' out loud.
I will repeat what I wrote earlier. Four over will usually get you a ticket from a Texas trooper. Two over might get a stop and chat. If a bad day, even two over might get a ticket. When the limit is 75 (120 kph) on a two-lane state highway, they are not near as lenient as in places where the dreary little limit is 55 (88 kph).
Believe it or not, at your own peril.
Also the Creswell /Drain area south of Eugene on I-5 is also watched.
Did someone on the highway commission actually have a sense of humor?
...And for those from other states, a yellow in Oregon means stop, not go like a dickens and get through the intersection.
I always thought yellow / amber meant "stop if you can". Another poster said he was ticketed entering on yellow. Can you say more about this?
Here in Ontario, Canada, a LEO can ticket you if it appears to them that you could have stopped. I've never seen that happen, and it seems that most everyone speeds through. Every time I go through and think I should have tried harder to stop, I check the rear-view mirror and see at least one, maybe two cars following me through!
Big city aggressive, I guess.
I always thought yellow / amber meant "stop if you can". Another poster said he was ticketed entering on yellow. Can you say more about this?
Here in Ontario, Canada, a LEO can ticket you if it appears to them that you could have stopped. I've never seen that happen, and it seems that most everyone speeds through. Every time I go through and think I should have tried harder to stop, I check the rear-view mirror and see at least one, maybe two cars following me through!
Big city aggressive, I guess.