After driving to work this morning, my view of the TMU has changed completely! Well for the moment at least
So it goes like this..
Im driving to work this morning, running a little bit late, so as I approach the chapel/commercial intersection(coming down commercial road) I notice that its 9 o clock, so I put my foot and go through the intersection a bit fast.
Next instant I hear a siren and see disco lights behind me as a TMU car pulls onto commercial from chapel, so I stop immediately. The cop gets out of his car and then asks me why I was speeding. I apologize, and tell him I was speeding because I was late to work. He tells me that its dangerous to speed through that intersection, and that many pedestrians have been killed there due to negligent drivers.
He then tells me that if I want to speed, I should do it further up the road where there are less pedestrians. Im serious
Next thing he takes my license back to his car, runs the necessary checks, and then comes back. As usual, the copper checks that Im wearing 'corrective lenses' and then comes the big punch.
The copper tells me I have 2 options: I can either take the fine/loss of points for speeding, and will have to take the car in for a roadworthy, or he can give me a $105 fine for 'failing to stay in marked lanes' with no loss of points, guess which option I took
So I got off pretty lightly, and by a TMU cop as well!!! Maybe they arent as bad as they are made out to be, or maybe this was just a nice cop....
Either way, I thought Id share this story with you guys, not to endorse speeding, but to show that even TMU cops arent always bastards