More troopers than you can shake a stick at...

We traveled through Georgia last week from Savannah up to Chattanooga.  On I-16 and I-75 I bet we saw over 20 law enforcement vehicles!  State troopers, local sheriffs, and what appeared to be Secretary of State DOT inspection vehicles.  You guys in Georgia can rest easy knowing that your roads are adequately patrolled.

Edited by Brian F(IL) - 30 Jun 2021 at 12:41pm

Tyler, thanks for the invite but as usual we were in a hurry.  Sometime we're going to have to make time for some side trips and visiting.

I'll tell you one to watch for on I75 south. It's somewhere just south of Atlanta before you get to the airport I believe. There's a Fulton county PD officer that sits in the LEFT emergency lane in a curve. He's there most everytime we go to the gulf side of Florida. You don't see him until you're right on him because of the curve. I don't see how he could get out in traffic to chase anybody. Especially where he sits

jaybmiller wrote: I would think that stopped in the emerg lane for NON emerg use would be agin the law and super dangerous..... consider an ambulance using the emerg lane,expecting a CLEAR lane, then oopsy WTF a stopped cop car !!???

I agree Jay. Especially where they sit. I don't understand how they haven't gotten somebody killed yet. You can't see them until you're on them. We do have some not so bright cops here to though. Yesterday me and Danielle were coming up I575 and there's a spot where an express lane runs out and the interstate narrows back to 2 lanes from 3. We were passed on one side by a car of some sort and the other side by a Sandy Springs cop. They were apparently racing because there were no lights on and we're a LONG way from the city of Sandy Springs. Then as soon as they got past us and another car they slowed down and rode with the traffic. Now it could've been a coincidence that a city PO had a call to go some 30 miles outside of his jurisdiction and just happened that the call was cancelled as they got to us but it sure didn't seem that way

     I know I'm getting old etc. but 80 mph is traveling a little over 117 ft. per second. Think how far you would travel before you could react to something even if you are paying attention. My old fashioned father always asked why vehicles are made to  go way faster than the speed limit. 

Thanks for the heads-up Brian. My family we be driving through Georgia on the way down to Orlando early Saturday morning. Were the "majority" of the troopers stopped behind vehicles with the blue lights flashing, or just sitting in the medians ?

Edited by FREEDGUY - 01 Jul 2021 at 7:16pm

They race on I285. Parts of 285 are 4 and 5 lanes wide around the 75 and 85 merges. They line up across the lanes and get slowed down to the same speed (usually somewhere in the 30mph to 40mph range) then somebody blows the horn and they take off and race until the lanes exit off. Sometimes they have 2 rows 5 lanes wide. It's an idiotic thing to do but with so many of them and so much other traffic there's no way they could all get caught. Lots of exits to jump off of to if need be. Don't know how traffic is in other big cities but Atlanta is something else

Edited by thendrix - 02 Jul 2021 at 12:27pm

Picked up a D 15 final drive around Atlanta a few months back . Got in some crazy fools on 285 . Told my wife I bet the only time police are out there is when there's a wreck .

What's the speed limit there?  Up here the interstate speed is 70.  They'll allow 76 but 77, you're done!

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