Los Angeles County Drivers

I have a hard time understanding the drivers in California, especially in Los Angeles County, California. It seems that the average driver in the Antelope Valley of Los Angeles County in California only obeys the Rules of the Road they agree with.

You see, I now live in Palmdale, California. A pleasant stretched out land of a desert type city where the Business districts and Residential districts or neighborhoods are clearly mapped out in the design of the city.

My street is a cuddle sack with a home at the end of the cuddle sack, yet on occasion I have witnessed a driver or two, who do not live on our street, turning into our street at high speed. But to get to our street there is two other small streets that are surrounded by homes. This is a residential neighborhood after all. And I have witness quite a few of drivers speeding up while children from school begin to cross one of those small residential streets. This is very frightening but also illegal.

Yep, according to the California DMV booklet for the Business or residence districts, Which does include neighborhoods, The speed limit is 25 mph, unless otherwise posted. Well there is no otherwise posted sign down my street.

So why are people in Palmdale's eastside in the Antelope Valley of Los Angeles County in the State of California Driving 40 to 50 mph down the neighborhood streets? And why have none of those drivers ever been issued a speeding ticket?

I have also witness this strange behavior of the California drivers in the Antelope Valley here in Palmdale driving that fast down other neighborhood streets as I walk to the stores. I can not even begin to tell you the number of times I have witness drivers trying to race a mother pushing a stroller crossing the street. It just boggles my mind how these drivers were able to be issued a drivers license in the first place.

Even in the Business corner of the Shopping centers drivers are driving a lot more than 25 mph. The speed limit signs giving the speed limit are away from those locations, so why doesn't the California driver obey the law of 25 mph in the business districts as well?

Maybe if Governor Arnold 'I'll be back' governor wanted to really make some money he would insist that the traffic cops plant themselves at these locations and right out those tickets so the State of California can make some money. I bet if everyone violating that law of 25 mph were given a ticket in the Los Angeles County alone, it would fix California's economic crises.

And The Beat-Goes-On!

I took a much needed break during the Holliday Season.

There is so much in the news with:
Hamas and the Israeli fighting in Gaza.
Russia turning the switch off on the gas for heating throughout Europe during a bitter cold winter.
A Power Plant in Tennessee releasing Toxic-Sludge, causing a Harmful Toxic mess. Pennsylvania Security guards sleeping on the job at a Nuclear Plant.
The truth about the Economic mess which will be inherited by the new Obama Administration when it takes over after the Inauguration swaring in ceremony on January 20 2009.
Another report being released about the most current job loss being higher than last reported.
The year end report of the jobs loss, the unemployment rate average for the year, and the average of those who just dropped out of the system (unable to get a job yet no longer qualifying for unemployment)
And the Beat-Goes-On!