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krynski · 06-26-2012, 10:46 PM

I was in calgary last weekend driving down bow trail westbound. I was going to go up to crowchild, but decided last minute to go down bowtrail since crowchild looked a little backed up. I accelerated a bit to pull back onto bow, and as I did, got Lasered doing 70 in the 50 there (its 60 on Bow trail, up until after the exit from the greyhound area). A blue charger ghoster was sitting in the pulloff lane there, with a camera set up in the front.

I'm not living in Calgary, and the roads are not the most familiar to me. My Gal didn't see the 50 signs either. I was ticked I got pulled over, and went back around to look at how the signage was. From my perspective, the signs were poorly placed and somewhat hidden on the left side. There was a big sign about 20-30 yards in front of the posted limit, and a sign above the speed limit.

My ticket was $124. I have a clean drivers abstract otherwise. It should have been double, considering it was a construction zone.

Are there any tips you guys have for fighting the ticket? I'm willing to go through a third-party representative. So basically, any advice would be helpful.

06-26-2012, 10:46 PM	#1
krynski First Line Centre Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Behind Enemy Lines Exp:	Speeding Ticket (want to contest) I was in calgary last weekend driving down bow trail westbound. I was going to go up to crowchild, but decided last minute to go down bowtrail since crowchild looked a little backed up. I accelerated a bit to pull back onto bow, and as I did, got Lasered doing 70 in the 50 there (its 60 on Bow trail, up until after the exit from the greyhound area). A blue charger ghoster was sitting in the pulloff lane there, with a camera set up in the front. I'm not living in Calgary, and the roads are not the most familiar to me. My Gal didn't see the 50 signs either. I was ticked I got pulled over, and went back around to look at how the signage was. From my perspective, the signs were poorly placed and somewhat hidden on the left side. There was a big sign about 20-30 yards in front of the posted limit, and a sign above the speed limit. My ticket was $124. I have a clean drivers abstract otherwise. It should have been double, considering it was a construction zone. Are there any tips you guys have for fighting the ticket? I'm willing to go through a third-party representative. So basically, any advice would be helpful.