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Dole Undermines Reagan by Supporting the 55-Mile Per Hour Speed Limit
When candidate Reagan campaigned in favor of abolishing the 55-mile per hour speed limit, it was Dole who fought to maintain it. As James Bovard writes:
"As Transportation Secretary, Dole consistently sought to maximize federal power both over citizens and state governments…as Transportation Secretary Dole fought all attempts to allow states to raise speed limits. Dole was the first Secretary of Transportation to penalize state governments for failure to ticket enough speeding drivers….After Dole cut highway funding to several states, Congress moved to end the 55 mph speed limit." (3)
Dole billed herself as the "Secretary of Safety" and sided with Ralph Nader and other liberals in maintaining that lifting the 55 miles-per-hour rule would be disastrous. Dole even had DOT letterhead printed up with the "55 Speed Limit" logo on the bottom, (4) Ironically, the reality was that after Congress authorized states to raise the 55-mile-per-hour limit to 65, our highways became safer. Economists Charles Lave and Patrick Elias examined the statistics before and after the 55-mile-per-hour law and concluded:
"The fatality rate dropped by 3.4% -5.1% following the speed limit increase in states with higher speed limits." (5)
Furthermore, numerous other studies by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the California Department of Transportation and even data from Dole’s own Department of Transportation have confirmed the folly of Dole’s position on this issue. (6) Only when it became obvious that the 55 mph limits would be lifted did Dole climb on board, and even then in a limited fashion. (7) Ironically, Dole’s efforts to save us from ourselves by fighting to delay raising the speed limit likely led to hundreds of additional auto accident fatalities.
And this woman is my current 'conservative' representation in Congress. And I can't tell you how thankful I am for that every day...