Report: Police Aggressively Issue Tickets On ICC
"Police officers are ticketing speeders aggressively,” Montgomery County Councilman Phil Andrews said, according to a report by The Gazette.
Speeders beware, police are ticketing the Intercounty Connector at a high rate. Over the last three months, police officers on the ICC "issued about 10 speeding citations and warnings per day," The Gazette reported, including a total of 887 citations and warnings issued for speeding between October and December. Montgomery County Councilman Phil Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg said he's heard from constituents that “police officers are ticketing speeders aggressively” on the ICC, according to the report. The ICC is patrolled by the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, according to the report. Andrews has been vocal on ICC issues of late, calling the road overpriced and underused in December. The road's 55 mph speed limit has also …
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Brian Klick
8:32 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013
Just another example of taking a potentially great thing, the ICC, and ruining it with utter stupidity. There is no one on the damn thing, multiple lanes, no aggressive turns, and the speed limit is only 55. And then make the police aggressively ticket a road that presents no danger. How about using that police force on all the aggressive driving on 270 or 495? It's one thing to be driving 70mph … more ›