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Pittsburgh to CMU Frosh: Drop Dead!

It's freshman move-in day at CMU! What a great opportunity for Pittsburgh to show itself off to the thousands of parents and new students who are visiting the city (perhaps for the first time). If Pittsburgh makes a good first impression, perhaps it'll start these talented youngins on the road to loving Pittsburgh. Perhaps they'll even decide to stay in town after graduation. Who knows? Maybe first impressions are as important as everybody says they are.

Pittsburgh, how will you respond? By putting up a speed trap right outside campus, of course. On the long downhill of Forbes, right before Margaret Morrison street. Coincidentally (I'm sure all of this is one big coincidence and not, say, some CMU official's failure to pay the yearly bribe to the city), this is the road that CMU's own directions to campus suggest that visitors take to get here. Pittsburgh, you've done it again.

Comments

Maybe they were trying to slow people down so they wouldn't race through that area and smoosh an incoming student.

It's possible that's the intention, but then wouldn't they use one of their radar-based "your speed is" boxes that tell drivers how fast they're going?