if you are traveling through Alabama

[spiceycat]

don't speed - the state troopers are given out alot of speeding tickets


Various (AP) - State troopers say they will continue to enforce speed limits on Alabama's interstates, where hundreds of tickets have been written in a crackdown on speeding.

Troopers wrote 374 speeding tickets on Interstate 65 in a 12-hour period Friday.

By comparison, during 2003 troopers averaged writing 266 speeding tickets per day across the entire state.

Dorris Teague, spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Public Safety, said in addition to the speeding tickets, another 205 citations were issued for other traffic violations. At least one law officer was positioned every ten miles along Interstate 65 from
the Tennessee state line to Mobile.

Along with those 579 tickets written by troopers, hundreds more were written by police and sheriff's deputies who were part of the I-65 detail.

Those numbers weren't available.

Governor Bob Riley's communications director, Jeff Emerson, said it's too early to call the crackdown a success despite the large number of tickets written in the first few days.

 

[manning]

Sounds like Alabama has a budget crunch. But I have no problem them doing that. I only go a few miles over and I know they can write me up. Looks like I'll stay on the money next time thru. After all the speed limit there is 70.

A few times when I didn't pay attention and I drifted to 75 there where cars going by me that made me feel I was going backwards at 75 MPH.