Hartford area, CT

Cyber Wolf · 07-20-2004, 12:24 PM

I was just up in West Hartford, CT for a convention and it's a pretty nice place. Just big enough to be a city but small enough to not be too big and too self-important. Nice folks, though some of them act like they've never seen a black person up close. Overall, everything's pretty nice about that area...except I-84.

I-84 is an adventure in cop-baiting. In the city of Hartford, the speed limit is 50. Understandable, as its going through the center of the city. However, if you DO stay with the speedlimit and do 50...even push it to 55, you will be run down, run over and run off the road. Speed limit is 50, average speed of traffic is around 70. And that's with cops here and there in the mix of traffic and waiting (in)conspicuously on the side of the road.

I know how VA cops are, but that was my first time to CT and I don't know if CT cops will let speeding slide until you reach 'reckless driving' status or if they nail people totally at random or if they keep a special eye on out-of-towners...Me thinks next year, I'll take the train and rent a car once I'm there.

07-20-2004, 12:24 PM	#1
Cyber Wolf As stable as a ring of PU-239 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On a huge rock covered in water, highly advanced moss and 7 billion parasites Posts: 1,264	Hartford area, CT I was just up in West Hartford, CT for a convention and it's a pretty nice place. Just big enough to be a city but small enough to not be too big and too self-important. Nice folks, though some of them act like they've never seen a black person up close. Overall, everything's pretty nice about that area...except I-84. I-84 is an adventure in cop-baiting. In the city of Hartford, the speed limit is 50. Understandable, as its going through the center of the city. However, if you DO stay with the speedlimit and do 50...even push it to 55, you will be run down, run over and run off the road. Speed limit is 50, average speed of traffic is around 70. And that's with cops here and there in the mix of traffic and waiting (in)conspicuously on the side of the road. I know how VA cops are, but that was my first time to CT and I don't know if CT cops will let speeding slide until you reach 'reckless driving' status or if they nail people totally at random or if they keep a special eye on out-of-towners...Me thinks next year, I'll take the train and rent a car once I'm there. __________________ "I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then getting' upset 'cos they act like people." ~Adam Young, Good Omens "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Adam Young, Good Omens

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