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No! Work with what you've got and learn to tighten your belt. These schools are out of hand. It's time to be more fiscally responsible and less wasteful of resources all the way around. also, cut the fat cats at the top. Admin bloat is an issue. Also, under-enrolled programs need to be axed.

Let’s say someone is going 65 and I’ve got my cruise set at 70 and im gently creeping up and want to pass.

When I do pass I’m bumping it to 75-80 until I’m well out in front where I change lanes then slowly allow cruise to take over without breaking and reestablishing the speed I was going.

I usually then get passed by that person within miles.

Pick a motherfucking speed!!!!

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you have no idea what road safety really is.

That's inspections for roads and bridges and safety features like guard rails, electronic signs and plowing and salting.

Nah, road rage is always the same. One person wants to drive one way, another person drives another way and they both escalate it, sometimes subtly and say "I didn't do anything!"

Here's some tips.

Do not use the fast lane as a travel lane. If you're passing a line of cars then think "I'll just stay in this lane and pass those cars 1/4 mile up there too" that's incorrect, especially if anyone is behind you. You pass and you get out of the fast lane immediately.

Do not beep.

Do not rudely gesture.

Do not aggressively drive, like braking unnecessarily or jerking your steering wheel to intimidate.

Do not flash your lights or keep high beams on.

Drive the speed limit in travel lanes.

Do not try to merge when no one is allowing you to. You WILL miss your exit, or you WILL wait and yield and you WILL just deal with it.

When you're driving, become a tranquil cow on a beautiful pasture that's being milked by a farmer with soft hands.

Keep your ego at your destinations. If someone does something to you, let it go, immediately.

It's a great recipe to sharply reduce any kind of confrontation.

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Northeast extension is another world. My wife refuses to drive that on our frequent trips to Jersey. I suggest she wear a blindfold, she plays games on her phone instead. I usually let my evil twin drive that section! I never rage or tailgate, but if you aren’t a little aggressive, it’s a nightmare from hell.

>No, it doesn't, and any belief it does is the same as in believing in faeries and unicorns, or just a straight inability to understand the English language.

The restriction of motor vehicle revenues to highway purposes is provided for by Article VIII § 11(a) of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.

This section provides that, "proceeds from gasoline and other motor fuel excise taxes, motor vehicle registration fees and license taxes, operators' license fees and other excise taxes imposed on products used in motor transportation... used solely for construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of and safety on public highways and bridges and costs and expenses incident thereto." (Emphasis mine)

Interpreting such funds being available for use to fund public safety as meaning that they may be used for law enforcement patrols on highways, thus transferred to the PSP, is a very reasonable interpretation of that language.

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So many left-lane campers between Quakertown and the Tunnel in particular. Fn annoying.

can confirm, i’m near the exton area and the amount of accidents on the 30 bypass is RIDICULOUS!

As a community college advisor this is the problem. I make 45k a year and work my ass off for my students. Deans start at 120k and sit on their ass occasionally presenting our work as their success. It pisses me off. I will say the directors at my institution do put in the work. For reference I’m one step below Director. Directors report to Deans.

I got a lot of value out of my college philosophy class. Learning how to think about thinking and how you fit in the world is good mental training.

Our sky high gas tax, brought to you by the Republican former governor, Tom Corbett.

The admins are not the board

>At I have pointed out elsewhere, the section of the Commonwealth Constitution that restricts motor vehicle revenues
includes highway safety, which would include PSP highway patrols, as
among the permissible expenditures and these transfers have been going
on for decades. Even if the transfers were abolished, they would need
to be made up for by cutting PSP activity, cutting other programs
supported by the General Fund to transfer their funding to the PSP or
increases in revenue through new or higher fees and taxes.

No, it doesn't, and any belief it does is the same as in believing in faeries and unicorns, or just a straight inability to understand the English language.

The PSP was getting a handout from the Motor License Fund because towns were getting rid of their police forces and making PSP pick up the slack.

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well the leftovers can get unskilled labor/semi-skilled labor jobs and still make a livable wage though right? ...right?

Nope. Have not noticed that.

>How much of the $4.25 billion that was siphoned off for PSP could have been spent fixing the number of red flagged bridges in this state? You know, like the one in Pittsburgh that collapsed?

I don't know; I'm neither a PennDoT budget analyst nor one of its engineers. I was making a narrow claim contrary to the original post of this thread that the transfer the PSP is not so large that it accounts for most of the tax differential between Pennsylvania and adjacent states.

>If the money is not going to where it's supposed to, we shouldn't be paying it.

At I have pointed out elsewhere, the section of the Commonwealth Constitution that restricts motor vehicle revenues includes highway safety, which would include PSP highway patrols, as among the permissible expenditures and these transfers have been going on for decades. Even if the transfers were abolished, they would need to be made up for by cutting PSP activity, cutting other programs supported by the General Fund to transfer their funding to the PSP or increases in revenue through new or higher fees and taxes.

Did you pass quickly? If not, that may have upset the driver. Not justifying their action, but is a possibility to consider. As for why people are extra aggressive on the TP could be the insanely high tolls. Feeling entitled to drive fast without anyone in their way. Don't know, but could see some having that mindset.

Personally, I steer clear of the TP whenever possible. Cost is nuts and people drive crazy. Also, the trucks with their speed limiters that can result in prolonged passing while blocking both lanes.

3-lanes not only increases capacity, also reduces the instances of blockades which leads to driver frustration. Wish all major highways were 3-lanes all the way. Blue Route is an example of the difference it makes. The upper section flows moderately well, but below milepost 9 where it's two lanes (was originally to be 3 all the way, but was strong public opposition), traffic and aggression increases.

How much of the $4.25 billion that was siphoned off for PSP could have been spent fixing the number of red flagged bridges in this state? You know, like the one in Pittsburgh that collapsed?

Yes, that amount was over 7 years, and amounts to just over $600 million a year. But the point of that money was to fix the states failing roads and bridges, not as a slush fund for the police.

If the money is not going to where it's supposed to, we shouldn't be paying it.

Unfortunately, that's not true. They've learned that by sticking to girls, they can get away with it by claiming that woke culture is attacking normal red-blooded manly urges.

"The RA will be a dick for no reason because bonding!"

That means you are going too slow in the fast lane. Stop camping in the passing lane.