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Replying to: davv62 (Apr 04, 2007 7:04 pm) newington is pretty nice - centrally located to everything, which is good.
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Replying to: thenebean (Apr 05, 2007 8:55 am) Have you ever noticed that on Connecticut highways, the state troopers are either completely absent, or out in tremendous force? They seem to favor special details over day-in, day-out enforcement. One thing I've learned is that if you see one smokey on those roads, watch your a&$, because you'll probably be seeing a lot more. I rode to Boston once a while back with a buddy of mine. He got nailed a short distance into Connecticut on I-84 (I lived in New York at the time), and nearly got busted three more times before we made it through Connecticut. Man, that was a harrowing trip...  Not harrowing enough, of course, to get him to slow down, but you know how that goes... Most of the time though, you could drive for hours and never see a trooper. Sometimes, the state police even announce publicly when they'll be having a crackdown. Maybe that's because they'll prefer to nail out-of-state drivers who won't have access to local news about the crackdown.
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Replying to: davv62 (Apr 06, 2007 4:02 am) -mike
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Replying to: paisan (Apr 06, 2007 4:24 am) On the highway, I go between 75 and 85 under good traffic and weather conditions, so that is 20-30 mph over the speed limit in the 55 mph zones near me, and 10-20 mph over the speed limit in a 65 mph zone. Even so, I haven't been pulled over since 1999, and that wasn't even on the highway. I don't use a radar detector, but I gauge my behavior by the behavior of other drivers. I tend to use blockers too when I can, and I slow down if the behavior of drivers ahead of me indicates there may be enforcement activity. The last time I got nailed, there was almost no traffic and I had the road all to myself. I knew that was the most dangerous time to speed from the standpoint of potential for getting busted, but I just couldn't resist the temptation.....
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Replying to: davv62 (Apr 06, 2007 4:02 am) There is no worse place to be in a car than in the center lane of the turnpike with one of those cheap Boston-NY bus service buses about four inches off your back bumper, trying to get you to move. Yikes.
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Replying to: smittynyc (Apr 06, 2007 8:12 pm) On I-95 between Greenwich and New Haven, the most common enforcment point is between exits 18-19 in Westport/Fairfield. That's a long stretch of road without any exits, and it's pretty straight. Generally with I-95, I think they're so happy if traffic is moving well at all that they're not inclined to interfere if they don't have to. I think your chances of getting a ticket on I-84 are much greater because it's more open and has less traffic. If I drove up that way more often, I'd probably get tickets on a more regular basis. My last ticket was actually on US-1 in Fairfield. I got nailed doing 52 mph in a 35 mph zone. If you're familiar with it, it's the part of the road in Southport that opens up into a semi-highway for a stretch. That's a favorite enforcement spot for the Fairfield police, as I learned.... It was a well-deserved ticket, so I have no complaints about it. And the way it played out was pretty funny, since I ended up with 3 police cars on the scene when I got pulled over. You'd have thought they just caught a guy who robbed a bank or something. I was being pursued by a Fairfield cruiser that took some time to catch up with me. He apparently radioed for backup from his own department, and also Westport, since I was approaching the town line. When I saw the flashing lights in the mirror, I assumed he was heading for an emergency, so I pulled to the right to let him pass. I quickly learned I was the emergency... I pulled over just over the town line in Westport, and about a minute later, a backup Fairfield cruiser arrived, then a Westport cruiser. Even though I was sitting there getting a ticket, I had to laugh. It was pretty funny. The backup cars quickly left when my buddy in blue let them know that I was just a docile speeder who wasn't going to give him any trouble.
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Replying to: davv62 (Apr 07, 2007 2:08 am) Oh, man. That is Speed Trap 101, especially east (north) bound coming down off the bridge over the turnpike. Hugely wide lanes, nice downhill grade, one of the few areas of the Post Road that's not choked with traffic/commercial areas on either side. . . All of those ritzy towns on the Sound usually go a little overboard with the police reaction. In Westport, at least, I almost always see two cruisers responding to any traffic-related incident.
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Replying to: smittynyc (Apr 07, 2007 5:01 am) The b-tards were pretty sneaky that time. Usually, I spot the enforcement activity and avoid it, but that time, I never saw the cop. Usually, the Fairfield cops aren't terribly strict about enforcement. I live in that town, and I've gotten away with a lot of speeding. Their enforcement activity is pretty limited to special details; there doesn't seem to be a concerted push for day-to-day enforcement. The towns on the sound are quick to call in back-ups in certain situations. I wonder why they felt the need to call in a backup on me. 
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Replying to: davv62 (Apr 07, 2007 5:24 am) -mike
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Replying to: paisan (Apr 07, 2007 7:50 am) Getting nailed pulling a trailer is quite a feat, man... I went to court for my last ticket, and it was pretty entertaining actually. I was almost sorry that they took my case so quickly, since I missed out on listening to a few more of the stories. I was out pretty quickly, and only got my wallet lightened by $35, so I'd say I did pretty well....  How often do you get busted in general? I actually have very long stretches between tickets, though I once got two tickets within 10 minutes....now that was fun... 
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