Strangely enough, I don't blame the Buckeyes (worthless nuts) as much as I blame an overzealous & predominately vile highway patrol. The drivers have been trained to be improperly cautious & dangerously paranoid. The entire state ups their annual income, probably 10fold or more, by emphasizing speed limits over logic. Imagine, running down the freeway (or tollway) at 65 MPH & suddenly & without warning, every driver on the road (and I do mean every) literally slams on their brakes. They don't bump the cruise off, they actually slow to 5mph UNDER the friggin limit. Why? Because, in the middle are 2, 3, 5, 10 cops, with laser, just looking to make a buck. This isn't an ocassional phenomena. It happens day in & day out 365 days a year.
From the PA line to the IN line, along I-80, it's 234 miles. One Thursday, I was heading back from NYC. Minding my ouwn business, chit-chatting on the radio when I start to notice a pattern. I kid you not, there was a cop every 4 miles from MM198 to MM76. Most were working for a living & some were waiting to work. Poised & ready for some truckdriver with a time critical load to be going 4 miles over the limit or some weekend warrior heading off to do a little fishing to go blasting by at a whopping 71MPH+ MPH.
It's not only freeways. They pull this crap on state highways & even county roads. There is a city, near Cleveland, that was expanded just to encompass a small section of freeway. That 1/4 mile of highway had it's speed limit lowered to 55MPH. No signs, no warning, nothing. That city makes $250,000. a year by having ONE of it's three city officer sit on the side of the freeway & bust "speeders".
FUCK THE OHP!!!
