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However, the Utah Highway Patrol is warning that it will strictly enforce the new limits. Col. Danny Fuhr, superintendent of the Highway Patrol, said it will target anyone for tickets who is traveling 75 mph or more.
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Yeah? Come get me, suckas! 9 over 4 lyfe.
 
This sucks. Before you could go 75 or 80 (along with the flow of traffic) and not get pulled over.

Now you will get pulled over for going 72.

My wife takes this road every day to and from work and she said she saw alot of people pulled over yesterday. And she is pissed cause now she has to drive alot slower (she always drive 80 mph before and new only goes 70)
 
If it makes you feel better on the radio this morning they were talking about Utah having around 630 million in new funds in 2015 as the result of new/increased taxes. So they are looking at Medicaid expansion, a prison relocation and an overhaul of the justice system as possible recipients of that money.
 
Stoked said:
If it makes you feel better on the radio this morning they were talking about Utah having around 630 million in new funds in 2015 as the result of new/increased taxes. So they are looking at Medicaid expansion, a prison relocation and an overhaul of the justice system as possible recipients of that money.
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Kinda funny cuz every politician in Utah seems to run on increasing education funding.

Utah spend the least in the nation per pupil.
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/06/03/states-spending-the-most-and-least-on-education/5/
 
QuinSnydersHair said:
That would be a waste of money. Trust me.
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Why?

Everything that I have ever seen on the matter shows that students do better in classrooms with fewer students and or with teachers that are better paid. Better educated people will attract better jobs. Everything I have seen says that better education leads to a reduction in crime. Education pays for itself in the long run.

On a state level(especially one with so many young people)education is one of the best places to spend money imo.
 
You can't fix every education issue with money, especially issues that exist primarily outside the schools, but in Utah lack of funding is one of the biggest issues hurting education.
 
fishonjazz said:
This sucks. Before you could go 75 or 80 (along with the flow of traffic) and not get pulled over.

Now you will get pulled over for going 72.

My wife takes this road every day to and from work and she said she saw alot of people pulled over yesterday. And she is pissed cause now she has to drive alot slower (she always drive 80 mph before and new only goes 70)
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I think things will even out. Cops aren't going to be proving the same point a month from now that they are trying to prove in the first few days after the new limit goes into effect.

But honestly, I'd be willing to drive a little slower if everyone was going at a reasonable clip. The freeway is safer if everyone is going 80mph than it is if some people are doing 55, some are doing 65, some are doing 75 and some are doing 90, and all ignoring "stay left except to pass".

I'm all for making the limit a reasonable limit and sticking to it. Although in my opinion the reasonable limit should be 85.
 
Gameface said:
I think things will even out. Cops aren't going to be proving the same point a month from now that they are trying to prove in the first few days after the new limit goes into effect.

But honestly, I'd be willing to drive a little slower if everyone was going at a reasonable clip. The freeway is safer if everyone is going 80mph than it is if some people are doing 55, some are doing 65, some are doing 75 and some are doing 90, and all ignoring "stay left except to pass".

I'm all for making the limit a reasonable limit and sticking to it. Although in my opinion the reasonable limit should be 85.
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I agree with you on all counts though I think the limit should be 80
 
Gameface said:
You can't fix every education issue with money, especially issues that exist primarily outside the schools, but in Utah lack of funding is one of the biggest issues hurting education.
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I agree you can't, but money is part of the solution. But I also included that bit about "a extreme makover of the whole process".

That means who teaches, where they teach, what they teach, what they teach with and how they teach it. The whole process. From top to bottom.
 
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