Passive-aggressive speed traps
I just read that in April, city officials in Pleasanton set up a stoplight on Vineyard Ave rigged to a speed sensor. If you’re driving too fast down Vineyard, the light turns red.
It’s all a little too much for Ken Pattee, a 52-year-old construction inspector from Livermore who sometimes rides his Harley-Davidson down Vineyard Avenue. He said he doesn’t feel good about the electronic eye.
“It’s depriving you of another one of your liberties — going fast,” Pattee said. “If they implement it everywhere, there will be nothing but red lights. Nobody does the speed limit.”
Except Pattee, that is. “I do the speed limit,” he said. “That’s my story, and I’m sticking with it.”