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10. Patently ridiculous low speed limits set by local authorities with an eye towards revenue.
There is a township near my home that set the speed limit on every road that crossed a certain valley at 25MPH. Every single road. For a while I couldn't get from my home to the town without driving on a 25MPH road. These are rural roads going through fields; good visibility, lots of sight distance, not many places to be surprised. The traffic volume never gets above 'light', if you can even call it that; many times I do not see a single vehicle on these roads when I traverse them. In most other similar areas around here roads like these have no speed limit signs at all, and don't need them.
The local folks finally got the sh**ts of it and forced them to change. They're 35MPH now, a much more appropriate and practical speed.
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