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Found a Minimum Speed Limit sign in the middle of my town. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reread your original post. You stated that the minimum speed is posted at the entrance to every municipality. These people are saying that they've only ever seen minimum speed signs posted on highways. Maybe that's what you meant, but your post sounds like it's posted on local roads all over the place.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Reread my post, I said most post it there, there is a lot of personal accountability to know the rules of the road of places you travel too.

And your defense is that one exists so another can’t…? Shit take.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Way to put words in my mouth. I wasn't defending anything.

I was pointing out that the reason people started arguing with you is because you said that they're posted on the edge of municipalities, and they said that they've never seen them visibly posted anywhere that wasn't a highway and asked for specific places where you've seen this hapoen. You then switched to arguing that they didn't believe that minimum speed limits exist at all.

You're straw-manning.

But, since you accused me of making the same argument, for your information, I used to drive for a living. Everywhere obviously has minimum speed limits, but where I live, they're only posted on specific roads where they differ from the norm. Most people could probably go their entire lives around here without ever seeing one that wasn't posted on a highway alongside the signs saying that it's illegal to ride a horse down the highway. We don't have signs that say, "Welcome to the town of Smithston, minimum speed limit is 15mph." The minimum speed limit is statewide, except in cases where a town deems it necessary, which is usually specific roads, not an entire municipality.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So post a few pictures of minimum speed limit signs at entrances to municipalities. Everyone else is saying they’ve never seen that (outside of highways). Nobody is saying there isn’t a minimum, just that it’s not commonly posted.