# Yet ANOTHER Legal Question (and one for the "Street Cop")

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 10, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-legal-question-and-one-for-the-street-cop/113267 "2002-06-10T16:35:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-legal-question-and-one-for-the-street-cop/113267/1 "2002-06-10T16:35:08Z")

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Saturday I was driving to my ex’s to pick up my daughter…and I noticed something very off on a stretch of highway I travel. This is Washington Street, which passes through a town (Canton) and is rather thickly settled. South of my enry into Washington St., there is a traffic sign…“30 MPH speed Limit”, this is in effect until the intersection with a state highway (Rt. 27). Howver, the SAME stretch of road (Northbound) has a 20 MPH speed limit! Is this legal? Suppose I was stopped by a policeman (nortbound) going 27 MPH-7 MPH over the speed limit…could I argue that the southbound speed limit should apply as well?  
Or is the town able to impose two different speed limits on the same stretch of roadway?😕