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Texas (80mph!), Iowa (70), Indiana(70) Raise Maximum Speed Limit
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| 6/20/05
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Posted on 06/27/2005 8:37:42 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
The death rates in those states will go up proportionally, especially if semi-trucks are given the same limits and unlimited lane usage.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:39:04 PM PDT
by
MHT
To: Diddle E. Squat
Now, for a problem with Indiana roads. Due to budgetary constraints, on Interstate highways leading INTO the state, they no longer maintain the roadway until they get to the first intersection with an Indiana state road.
That means that if you think you can cross over from Ohio to Indiana on I70 and immediately go 70MPH, you are probably going to leave a lot of your suspension in the chuckholes.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:40:15 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(q)
To: Diddle E. Squat
I like to go fast like everyone else, but going fast also does one other thing... Waste gas... with oil over $60 a barrel not sure if this makes sense.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:43:04 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: Diddle E. Squat
It's been 75 around here for yrs
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:43:05 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: MHT
Last time I drove though down town Indianapolis, I had a truck on my left, a truck on my right, one in front and one behind me......All traveling 80+ mph......Really frightening
Maybe by raising the limit they will start enforcing it.
To: MHT
The death rates in those states will go up proportionally, especially if semi-trucks are given the same limits and unlimited lane usage. The few more dead people could help save social security...(sarcasm...)
Iowa will also double fines...and they say they're going to enforce the new limit strictly.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:44:26 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Life's a beach - and Liberals are like the sand that gets in your swimsuit...)
To: Diddle E. Squat
Looks like me and Harley need to go for a road trip to Texas.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:44:35 PM PDT
by
vetvetdoug
(Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Brices Crossroads, Harrisburg, Britton Lane, Holly Springs, Hatchie Bridge,)
To: Diddle E. Squat
This means that people will spend less time getting to where they want to go - thus saving gas! ;o)
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:46:27 PM PDT
by
Socratic
(Honor the Liberator - He toils for you.)
To: Echo Talon
If people want to waste their gas, I see no reason for the nanny state to intervene and stop them.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:46:34 PM PDT
by
RWR8189
(I Will Sit on My Hands in 2008 Instead of Voting for McCain)(No Money for the NRSC)
To: MHT
The death rates in those states will go up proportionally, especially if semi-trucks are given the same limits and unlimited lane usage.I seem to recall the crash and fatality rates went down when Montana recently had no daytime speed limit, and back up again when they imposed one. Ah, here's the document I was thinking of:
http://www.motorists.com/pressreleases/montana.html
In 1999, after 4 years of no numerical or posted daytime speed limit on these classifications of highways, outside of urban areas, Montana recorded its lowest fatality rate. For the last 5 months of no daytime limits in Montana, the period after its Supreme Court had ruled that the Reasonable and Prudent law was unconstitutional, reported fatal accident rate declined to a record low. Fixed speed limits were reinstated on Memorial Day weekend 1999. Since then, fatal accidents have begun to rise again.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:47:00 PM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: hoosiermama
Maybe by raising the limit they will start enforcing it More like they will ticket only for >100 mph now. Raising the limit just raised the threshold.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:47:13 PM PDT
by
gg188
To: Diddle E. Squat
Thank goodness. 65mph makes driving through Iowa painfully slow.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:47:21 PM PDT
by
xrp
(Fox News Channel should rename itself the Missing Persons Network)
To: Diddle E. Squat
The MA State Police actually admitted in public that traffic safety INCREASED when they raised the speed limit on the MA Turnpike. Why they're cutting into their own shakedown revenue in these states I don't understand.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:47:45 PM PDT
by
agitator
(...And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark)
To: MHT
People have been claiming that higher speed limits would increase the death rate since 1995, when Newt Gingrich's minions raised the limit. There's been no increase in deaths.
I've never been to Texas, but 80 seems like a high speed limit. But I guess in rural areas it makes sense. Fastest I've ever been in a car is on the autobahn in Germany. 190 kph and it was raining. And people were passing us. And no, I wasn't driving.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:49:03 PM PDT
by
Koblenz
(Holland: a very tolerant country. Until someone shoots you on a public street in broad daylight...)
To: MHT
Explain how the autobahn is one of the safest roads in the world despite no speed limit at all?
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:50:00 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
To: Diddle E. Squat
Hell, here in Indy on I-465 I do 70 all the time. 55 is posted, and have had troopers/sheriff's pass me. Everyone on 465 does 70. Not a rural road.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:50:00 PM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(your mileage may vary)
To: Echo Talon
"Waste gas... " is your *opinion*, not fact. My time is valuable, it's your opinion whether my time is worth my increased gasoline usage.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:50:01 PM PDT
by
agitator
(...And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark)
To: Diddle E. Squat
Will they also increase the NIGHT speed limits in Texas?
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:51:20 PM PDT
by
Buck W.
(Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
To: Diddle E. Squat
How about Iowa? It's 65 on the interstate.
Driving through Iowa is like being in reverse hyper-space. It takes an immeasurably long period of time to travel immeasuarbly short distances.
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posted on
06/27/2005 8:52:13 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(God has blessed Republicans with really stupid enemies.)
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