Posted on 10/20/2010 5:57:35 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A Virginia highway official is recommending the state raise the speed limit on most interstates to 70 mph by year’s end.
That would include nearly all of Interstate 81 in Virginia, except for major urban areas including the stretch between Christiansburg and Roanoke, and parts of I-64, I-66, I-85 and I-95.
Connie Sorrell, chief of system operations at the Virginia Department of Transportation, said this afternoon that she will brief the Commonwealth Transportation Board on her recommendation Wednesday.
Sorrell said she recommends the higher limit for “areas that we felt could be operated safety at 70 miles per hour.”
Sorrell said Virginia State Police representatives were consulted and “were comfortable with the recommendations.”
HAHAHAHA! I thought the speed limit was 85 there already. At least that seems to be the ambient speed.
We’ve long had them here, they’re jokingly called “dewey-sickles” (DWI-cycles). No license required, so people who have lost theirs due to a drunk driving conviction drive them. That doesn’t prevent another DWI, though. You can get one on a bicycle if you’re on a public roadway.
... or Covenant, or the worst which would be Shelba D. Johnson. You may not know them, they’re local and somwhat specialized. Very, very slow and cautious.
J.B. Hunt is famous for newbie drivers getting lost and blocking the road trying to turn a semi around, above and beyond poking down the road.
That explains why I havn’t seen them.
Where I am, you must license a moped. in fact, technically you must license a bicycle with electric helper motor if the motor is rated over a certain watts. “dewey sickles” are just bicycles where I am. And there are lots of them but they stay on the sidewalks.
But, I have noticed a lot of really fat people driving really tiny beater cars, like geo metros and such...and driving very slow.
Good news...this will help oppressed conservatives fleeing the northeast get to the south and west a bit faster...
We forgot Schneider - you know, the big orange trucks that come on to the interstate at 35mph and head straight for the center lane? Love them and the 45mph trash haulers, too.
I drive I-81 from Harrisonburg to Allentown 4 days a week. Gotta love it...
JB
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