55 mph speed limit's slayer turns eye to Briley Parkway

Nashville Tennessean ^ | 12/4/4 | YVETTE CRAIG

[SmithL]

A great story about the woman that defeated the idiotic 55mph national speed limit.

[SmithL]

The Tennessean doesn't allow excerpting, so go here:

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/11/62358117.shtml?Element_ID=62358117

[Sidebar Moderator]

Don't do that again.

[Paleo Conservative]

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/11/62358117.shtml?Element_ID=62358117

[TomServo]

The speed limit on Briley is 55?

I didn't know that...;-)

[SmithL]

Some of us remember before Briley was built, and we had to take the ferry at McGavock. That was considerably slower than 55.

[Old Professer]

I read the Tennessean every morning on the crapper

[Old Professer]

Only on the 200 feet that isn't under construction past Opry Mills.

[Old Professer]

The ferry died

[Reaganwuzthebest]

There's no reason to force drivers in the straight, open-ended highways of the Southwest to do 55. Even on the NYS Thruway that's a snail's pace. Sixty-five seems reasonable to me, though on some of those roads 70 or 75 appears slow at times.

[SmithL]

But the Ferry ramp on the East Nashville side used to be a great place to park.

Or so I've been told.

[Morgan's Raider]

I read the Tennessean every morning on the crapper

Whasamatter? Too damn cheap to buy toilet paper? :-)

I refuse to pay for Pravda on the Cumberland. I'll read it if somebody else bought it or it was stolen.

[Seruzawa]

''Now that the speed limit is 65 and 70, people are now going 70, 75 and 80 miles per hour,'' Gillian said. ''Speed is still a major killer on our highways. … You can change the speed law, but you can't change the law of physics. When you are traveling those speeds, your chances of survival are nil.''

That has to be one of the stupidest statements I've ever seen. First off this "expert" doesn't even know that the limit on western Interstates is 75MPH. I travel at 80 much of the time and I've survived quite well..... doofy woman.

Why stop a 55? Make it 50! 45! 40!

I'd like to see this idiot drive from Iowa to Los Angeles and then tell me how wonderful the 55 MPH speed limit is. Ever driven on I-80 through Wyoming? I-15 from Salt Lake to Las Vegas? The biggest problem on those drives is fatigue, not speed.

The biggest killer on our highways is incomptence.

[TomServo]

"Some of us remember before Briley was built"

I remember when I-65N stopped at Harding..

[CedarDave]

Posted speed limit on some rural west Texas TWO-lane highways is 75 mph day/65 mph night. Gas prices now down to $1.699 unleaded regular.

[festus]

Why stop a 55? Make it 50! 45! 40!

Just ban cars and the problems solved. Wait they are trying that....

This woman who got this 55 ban lifted should be made a saint I tell ya.

[qam1]

She should be made a national hero

[Paleo Conservative]

Why stop a 55? Make it 50! 45! 40!

Just ban cars and the problems solved. Wait they are trying that....

Why stop there? Make them people drive backwards.

[qam1]

There's no reason to force drivers in the straight, open-ended highways of the Southwest to do 55. Even on the NYS Thruway that's a snail's pace

Not to the people who live in the Catskills, Apparently they haven't got word of the change of the speed limit and continue to blissfully plod along at 55 mph, even in the left lane with nobody in front of them.

[Coldwater Creek]

All Tennessee drivers are incompetent!