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SA cops have a new tactic in giving tickets. They stand next to the U-turn lane under IH-10 giving people tickets for not having their seatbelts on. As you come around the curve they can see into your car and motion you to pull over. It is a $200 ticket. I have seen them under the Wurzbach and Dezavala bridges.
Also, SA cops are now targeting interstate frontage roads and exit ramps for radar. As you exit a ramp in traffic doing 55, 60 etc, they are wating to give you a ticket for going over 45. The same if you are accelerating on the frontage road approaching the entrance ramp.
Very productive way for the city to get some extra revenue. But it would seem now that SA is the most violent city in the USA, these cops would be out chasing violent criminals instead of jacking with working stiff motorists.
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If you read the TransGuide signs you'll see TxDoT is in full force with their "Click It or Ticket" campaign. I for one never ever ever leave the driveway without a seatbelt on (and haven't since someone in my fifth grade class died because he didn't have a seatbelt on). So, that won't be an issue for me. The speeding..perhaps.
I heard they were doing this at De Zavala a few days back. Thank God I wear my seatbelt!
Well since the city is 100 million short on the expanding the river walk project you can expect more creative ways to the average San Antonio tax payer,
I know what your going to say...."lets raise the tourist and hotel tax"
You guys have ed the tourist so much the last 10 years it would be easier if you just wait till they enter a cab hit them over the heads take their wallets and bury their bodies in the streets you can save even more money using them as speed bumps.
If they were really just worried about your safety they would give out warning tickets.
The real reason they want you to wear seatbelts is your no good to the San Antonio economy if yur dead.
If that were true, then everyone would already be wearing a seatbelt.
The click it or ticket commercials are sufficient warning.
How about the cops spend their time preventing real crime and not playing road nanny?
What 22 year old's do you know that are thinking about a tv commercial when cruising the streets of San Antonio in a 2009 Mustang?
Because stopping gangs from meeting in dark alleys and patrolling the neighborhoods don't bring in the 100,000 they make with 50 cops giving out 1o tickets a day.
I remember reading about another city where the cops were in plainclothes at intersections holding cardboard signs. They would just walk down the row of cars and slap their badge up against the window if they wanted to stop you.
I am saying that a 22 year old is more likely to wear his seatbelt if not doing so actually cost him financially.
I have yet to meet a driver - young or old- who is unaware that he ought to wear his seatbelt.
Their failure to do so is due to disregard for the law and carelessness regarding their own safety, not the result of ignorance.
Drivers without seatbelts do not need more information about it ( i.e. warnings) they deserve consequences ( tickets).
If the economy keeps up they may need those cardboard signs permanently.
your really smart how come you don't run for mayor?
A 22 year old in San Antonio in 2009 Mustang? no wonder they don't use seat belts chances are that car is freshly stolen and they are not familiar with where everything is just yet.
Aw, thank you.
your really smart how come you don't run for mayor?
i was wondering the ing police were in the way causing a safety hazard... the cop was half on the curb and half in the street. you couldn't see his car until the last second. very unsafe. we have some of the worst cops in the nation. that's a fact.
A few times I had my pants down and was playing with myself in that lane thanks for the heads up
I noticed Buddy Holly was in this topic and id not reply did he finally give up on San Antonio?
You live in San Antonio, I thought that you lived in California???
I think just like beer and cigs that after a set age seatbelts should be your call. I alway wear mine but it's dumb that in the land of the free you must wear a seatbelt...we are free? We can't even have yardsales with out a permit at your own house.
If u choose not to wear one and die it's was on yourself. we allow teens to start killing themselfs at 18 when they can buy cigs.
Own a bike and you dont need a helmet which would help out a of alot more then a seatbelt but thats ok.
It already IS just like cigarettes. You can pretty much just smoke at home now, so take a page from that book and sit in your driveway with your seatbelt off.
I've never understood anyone intentionally doing anything stupid like not wearing their seatbelt. Maybe that's just me. Look at it this way: if you head on someone without your seatbelt on, your flying corpse coming thru the windshield directly towards them could be a danger to them, so it's not just babysitting stupid people.
I don't have a problem with seatbelt tickets because I always wear my seatbelt, but you should be able to go faster than 45 on an entrance ramp because the traffic you are entering is usually going 65, so it's dangerous to enter that lane going 45.
As for exit ramps, I just think it's better for gas mileage to let off the gas and coast to the frontage road until you get to the frontage road speed, more often than not you won't come off that exit ramp going faster than the frontage road speed unless you want to, coasting won't typically get you there.
Yeah, and kids have to be in car seats when they are in a car or you get a ticket but biker dudes can throw their three year old kids on the back and haul ass with nothing to worry about...ain't that the z?
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