trd420
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Jump in your car, grab your 10-gallon hat and head for Austin. Maybe.
Texas already has the ability to slap on that higher speed limit, but only on new highways. Now it is considering applying it to a 41-mile section of Highway 130 between Austin and San Antonio.
Needless to say there are two sides to this discussion.
The insurance people are none to happy about the idea of those higher limits and suggest more serious accidents are in the offing.
Texas’ rationale for the higher limit is that we are safest when vehicles travel the same speed. Posted limits aside, running 80-85 mph is the reality in many open stretches in the larger and/or less populated states. So the 85-mph limit is acknowledging the reality of what is happening currently on many roads.
Texas and Utah already have speed limits of 80 mph. Those who were driving before the 1974 National Maximum Speed Law clipped the limit to 55 mph – the dreaded double nickel remembered in Sammy Hagar’s song, “I Can’t Drive 55”- might recall Nevada and Montana having no limit other than reasonable and prudent.
Texas already has the ability to slap on that higher speed limit, but only on new highways. Now it is considering applying it to a 41-mile section of Highway 130 between Austin and San Antonio.
Needless to say there are two sides to this discussion.
The insurance people are none to happy about the idea of those higher limits and suggest more serious accidents are in the offing.
Texas’ rationale for the higher limit is that we are safest when vehicles travel the same speed. Posted limits aside, running 80-85 mph is the reality in many open stretches in the larger and/or less populated states. So the 85-mph limit is acknowledging the reality of what is happening currently on many roads.
Texas and Utah already have speed limits of 80 mph. Those who were driving before the 1974 National Maximum Speed Law clipped the limit to 55 mph – the dreaded double nickel remembered in Sammy Hagar’s song, “I Can’t Drive 55”- might recall Nevada and Montana having no limit other than reasonable and prudent.
