reconsider ticketing practices

I have always taught my children to respect the law. I guess if you have not received a warning, a ticket or even been involved in a wreck by the time you are 22, maybe you are due your 1st ticket. While traveling across Arkansas on Hwy. 64 one can easily overlook the speed limit changes especially when they occur far from a populated area. Further when you are being followed by other vehicles it is not safe to immediately slow down 10 MPH at the speed limit changes. The reduction should be gradual in a safe manner. The concern I have is a $75.00 to $100.00 ticket for going 8 MPH over the speed limit becomes $225.00 for "Hazardous Driving" knowing that a college student from 400 miles away is not going to appear in court. Consideration should be be given to this practice. It is difficult to "Respect the Law" in this situation.

Oh, the ticket has been paid and receipted. Thanks for reading.

I'm from here and couldn't agree more. The city government is a joke....

I got one for going 4 mph of the speed limit doing 34 in a 30. The officer had nothing else better to do.

Wasn't there someone killed on 64 a few years ago coming into town? The speed limit is for peoples safety including your own. NOBODY likes a ticket, i'd rather see someone get a ticket than kill or maim another human being. There has been many people killed in and around augusta on 64, my children travel that road frequently... Have a nice day...

just a thought wrote:

Wasn't there someone killed on 64 a few years ago coming into town? The speed limit is for peoples safety including your own. NOBODY likes a ticket, i'd rather see someone get a ticket than kill or maim another human being. There has been many people killed in and around augusta on 64, my children travel that road frequently... Have a nice day...

. I agree with u on that and I've drove from here to arz and back and I watched the speed limit all the way. If u do the crime pay it up then.

LesCarter wrote:

<quoted text>. I agree with u on that and I've drove from here to arz and back and I watched the speed limit all the way. If u do the crime pay it up then.

yeah just like if u let under age girls in the club and let them drink pay up!!!

LesCarter wrote:

<quoted text>. I agree with u on that and I've drove from here to arz and back and I watched the speed limit all the way. If u do the crime pay it up then.

I did not object to the ticket. I objected to the "kind" of ticket. Everywhere else I have checked, an "8 MPH over the limit speeding ticket" is normally $75.00 to $100.00.

whathappened wrote:

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I did not object to the ticket. I objected to the "kind" of ticket. Everywhere else I have checked, an "8 MPH over the limit speeding ticket" is normally $75.00 to $100.00.

They have to recover there money for all the law sutes and david best retiredment

Just to enlighten you a bit. Every city and state has speed limit signs. They are black and white and posted on the side of the road and before you get to one that reduces the speed you usually see a sign that says reduced speed ahead or speed zone ahead. Follow me so far! No matter what state you are from it is all the same. So why are you complaining? Would it matter if your child got the ticket back home????????? Maybe ----ing should add a class on how to read speed limit signs!!!!! This has nothing to do with the ticket or the price of it. It all deals with someone's little rich kid that goes to this school got stop and the law from this town did not give a hoot that their kid went to this school. Which by the way in Searcy means a lot. In Augusta it doesn't. If you have the money for your kid to go to this school then you have the money to pay the ticket your child got cause he or she thinks they can do what they want for they go to this school.

FYI - Just so all of you there will know!!! It is against the law for an officer of the city of Augusta to give you a ticket on 64 before you get past the liquor store going east!!!The city limit sign is all the way up by the liquor store yet they sit out and write tickets all the way out to the little bridge there. They are out of the city limits there. I got one there and it got dropped just as soon as I called the police department there. You can also get them in trouble for it. We reported them. Now let me explain this. A former officer there and a friend of mine told me about the sign and all. When I got the ticket I called him to see if he could help me. That is when he told me to call and ask them where the city limit sign was. They tried to explain the limit was in middle of the bridge. But they could not put a sign there for the bridge. Bull!!!!! Either find someone who makes a bracket for a sign to hang on the bridge or put the sign at the end of the bridge. If not then the city limits began at the liquor store there where the sign is. Just thought I would bring this up. Sorry city but you failed to get my money!!!