Government operates roads like a pinball machine

PINBALL MACHINE
Lots of flashing lights and holes where you can lose your game ball.  Ball gets batted around a lot.


I sometimes drive north on Santa Fe in the Denver, CO metro area.  The powers that be have set up a speed trap.  It is a photo radar van.  It is located right after the speed limit drops from 50 mph to 25 mph with a few blocks.  The added bonus for the revenue collectors is that it is a *fines doubled* area.  Another added bonus is that is located in the chaos of a construction zone.  Picking out small signs advising the speed limit and the presence of a radar trap are is unlikely in the welter of competing visual cacophony.  Road construction in the Denver area most resembles western cow patties ( excrement ).   #1 Located randomly over the landscape  #2  Suddenly appears ... gooey and hardens into an intractable mess.  #3  Stinks  #4  Never cleaned up   #5 Sustenance for vermin

Government employees and VIPS are self-selected.  They love to push people around.  They love to be officious. What could be grander than a road project that gives everything they want plus they get to SOPM.

The above is unconscionable and chips away at the happiness of the planet's sophonts.


Update 2013m03d31
      Returning from Littleton, CO on a Sunday ( Easter ... no less ) I encountered the same speed trap on Santa Fe.  This is set up to collect fines ( $$$ ).  There are no workers on the ( endless ) project... no equipment ... other than the radar van.  I was going 40 mph.  I do not know if I was one of the lucky ones.  I am dropping a note to Hickenlooper and whatever city that speed trap resides in.
      Later....... on the very same return trip.... I exited I-70 at Lowell ( going west ).   I wanted to turn left at Lowell.  No way I could do that.  There were 7 cop cars blocking the ramp.  I had to turn right.  Everyone looked relaxed.  I could not discern if there were civilians involved.  No apparent reason for 7 cars to be clustered unless they were waiting for a doughnut order.  I stopped and asked them why they were lounging around.  ( That last sentence was a lie & joke. )  I am writing this from my office and not from jail.

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