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To: MHT

People said the same thing when we (Texas) raised the limit to 70. The death rates did not increase. However, DPS officers did step-up enforcement of driving regulations and were more prone to issue citations and tickets for moving violations.


94 posted on 06/27/2005 9:58:07 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
The greater problem we have in MO in I-70 is not the cars speeding, it's the semi's. The speed limit is 70, but trucks casually go 85, box-in cars and will not let them pass or get out of the way. Almost without exception, any major accident on I-70 involves a semi. The drivers intimidate kids and there have been many tragedies involving teens trying to get out of the way. I have never seen a MO HP pull over a truck for speeding. The weight stations are closed at night so the truckers pay the lowest gas tax in the country, speed to their hearts content, do road damage and never pay up.

I wish we would either limit the speed a semi could do or have a special lane for them. If so, the roads in the midwest would be alot safer.

118 posted on 06/28/2005 12:03:37 AM PDT by MHT
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