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In regard to Terrance Gainer’s views on Chicago’s expressways (Voice, March 16), the added police presence on the expressways is a temporary fix.
This tactic won’t do anything to curb speeders until local police enforce speed limits more aggressively. When police allow traffic on secondary streets to drive 50 and 60 m.p.h. in 40 to 45 m.p.h. zones, people get on an expressway and instinctively think they should be moving faster, hence the 65 to 80 m.p.h. traffic on Chicago’s expressways. Until local speed limits are better enforced, we’re just kidding ourselves that more cops are going to do any long-term good.
