The
Tennessean doesn't allow excerpting, so go here:
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/11/62358117.shtml?Element_ID=62358117
1 posted on
12/04/2004 2:53:56 PM PST by
SmithL
To: SmithL
4 posted on
12/04/2004 3:10:47 PM PST by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Dan Rather's got to go!)
To: SmithL
The speed limit on Briley is 55?
I didn't know that...;-)
5 posted on
12/04/2004 3:10:52 PM PST by
TomServo
("Pretend you’re a Picasso! Move your nose to the back of your head!")
To: SmithL
I read the Tennessean every morning on the crapper
7 posted on
12/04/2004 3:14:21 PM PST by
Old Professer
(The accidental trumps the purposeful in every endeavor attended by the incompetent.)
To: SmithL
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.
To: SmithL
''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.
13 posted on
12/04/2004 3:19:34 PM PST by
Seruzawa
(If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
To: SmithL
She should be made a national hero
17 posted on
12/04/2004 3:50:54 PM PST by
qam1
(Anyone who was born in New Jersey should not be allowed to drive at night or on hills.)
To: SmithL
"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." Nil?
Then why does the German autobahn, where there is no speed limit and people routinely drive 200 MPH+, have a much lower fatality rate than US highways?
HHHMMMMmmmmm?
24 posted on
12/04/2004 5:37:22 PM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: SmithL; TomServo; Morgan's Raider; Old_Professor; babble-on; Blood of Tyrants; KentuckyWoman; ...
I bet she is talking about the Briley Parkway extension that loops from White Bridge/40 to connect in North Nashville and back to Opryland.
And I did not know that was 55. I thought it was 65.
??
33 posted on
12/05/2004 9:53:38 AM PST by
wardaddy
To: SmithL
52 posted on
12/05/2004 7:21:00 PM PST by
Dan from Michigan
("BZZZZZT You are fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute")
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