Safety is the main reason why 85 MPH is appropriate.
Traffic that is slugging along behind a rolling roadblock is never safe.
It makes sense. Long roads, and there are many in Texas can take far too much time to feel any progress being made when you are stuck at 65 like many states or 55 even. I pity such states as they are usually Democratically controlled.
Notice how the Democrat controlled states just steal your freedoms in any way they can. Its all about the power.
Good start. Standard US speed limits are a joke. In Germany you won’t feel comfortable at far right lane at 85 mph on freeway. (Older sunday drivers will hit your rear).
Gee, that’s swell.
Whats the cost per mile?
Something says I’ll be stuck on I35.
Oklahoma’s I-44 has been 85 for years (unofficially.)
The kicker is that they lowered the speed on U.S. 183[non toll] from 65 to 55. Surprise, the toll road company helped ‘decide’ that was for safety and not to spur people onto the toll road. Lol.
My memory is not to be trusted these days, but a few years ago I came crossed Texas on I-10, and sure seem to remember a long stretch of it being 85 mph. I was towing, and couldn’t go over 60.
There are some remote freeway stretches here in CA that you’ll get run over at 85mph.
Then get out of the way, SLOW traffic on the right, please. Better yet take the service road or shoulder.
Never got busted, suprisingly enough.
/johnny
Seems to me I have some of this road up here by the people I see driving.
It seems to me a better idea would be to use some math, as far as distances and speeds, and set up a vehicle only high speed rail line.
Imagine the two story car carrier trucks used by car dealerships, but as trains with thin, streamlining walls and roof. Cars drive into position and are secured. It takes the train several miles to accelerate to maybe 180mph, and even more miles to brake when approaching the end. So the route would be worth it if it was 200-300 miles. And the further they went without halting, the better the deal.
I heard some roads in Montana basically have no speed limit......it’s just whatever is “reasonable” for the current conditions.
That speed limit will only last until the traffic gets heavy. And it will
That bypass is great. The wife and I took it several years ago. Just about nobody on it. There’s one around Denver that’s great as well. Those bypass toll roads are well worth the money.
There are many stretches in California that are safe at 85, and the traffic moves at that speed. Posted limit is 70 or 75.
Just to avoid a citation, I stay with the flow, but not the fastest vehicle. Let somebody else volunteer for the citation, if a patrolman decides to teach the pack by citing the fastest.
This is partly in response to the frightful traffic situation on I-35 through Austin, among the worst in the nation.
Texas 130 was built in part to give through traffic, especially truckers travelling to/from south Texas (to whom time is money) a way of avoiding Austin. But the tolls are substantial.
Increasing the speed means decreasing the time, and thus the additional time saved will (in theory) make it a financial win for more truckers to use Tx-130.
Travel along at 85 MPH on I-95 in Florida and you better be in the right hand lane!