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TxDOT Increases Speed Limit on Some Highways
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| September 1, 2011
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Posted on 08/31/2011 8:14:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:16:29 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hooray!
Now we can get to the gunshop faster!
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:18:40 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
All the more reason it was good that TX ended the “one for the road” open container custom a few years ago. DWD definitely not a good idea at those speeds.
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:19:51 PM PDT
by
lightman
(Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:22:21 PM PDT
by
Oceander
(The phrase "good enough for government work" is not meant as a compliment)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:23:00 PM PDT
by
svcw
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I am so glad they got rid of that stupid night time speed limit. Coming from La into Tx at night when you need to get to Dallas is just awful.
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:23:04 PM PDT
by
Raider Sam
(They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Did I read that right?
No speed limit for trucks.
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:23:04 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
And fuel economy will not suffer. Of course those people in the clown cars are going to have to pedal a lot harder.
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:24:27 PM PDT
by
oyez
( America is being pimped.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ever notice that everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac and everyone who drives slower than you is an idiot?!
Old joke alert!
Good for Texas. Any freeway/open highway limit below 75 is downright barbaric and uncivilized.
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:27:48 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Raider Sam
Coming from La into Tx at night when you need to get to Dallas is just awful.Never noticed it slowing me down. Going the other direction, however, I always found Mississippi to be a state-wide speed trap.
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:29:06 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
One way to stimulate the economy is a nation wide. 70 or 75 mile speed limit and do away with all the BS lane and two speeds BS. A truck and car running 70 burns more fuel, increases fuel sales and adds tax revenue. Enforce the right side for slow traffic rules to make up the traffic fines.
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:30:00 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
To: razorback-bert
I’m pretty sure that any truck doing over 75 will be fair game for tickets. :-)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When I used to drive 18’s back in the 80’s, my Petercar was set at 78 for night time speeds...bird dog on.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Nope,Ft Hancock to Kerrville on I-10 and Odessa on I-20 the speed limit is 80.(So everybody runs 85.)
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:41:41 PM PDT
by
Tornillo
To: PAR35
lol.. at 15yo, I learned how to use the CB and get in a convoy... Had to learn the HARD way not to be on the END of a convoy >.< (first ticket by a TxDPS).. lol
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:43:09 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
To: razorback-bert
In Texas (at least when I used to live there), Trucks had a lower speed limit at night.. Totally separate speed limit sign.
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:44:42 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
To: Tornillo
:O Seriously?!
I have never seen a speed limit of 80! When did that happen?
(BTW, my hometown is Odessa.. or as we called it, “Slo-Deatha”)..
;^)
OH.. it is very conservative... and the most LIBERAL town/city for 100s of miles is just 20 miles away (Midland >.<)
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posted on
08/31/2011 8:47:31 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
To: Bikkuri
A couple of years ago. It goes by county lines. It’s going to get really western when they throw all those Mexican trucks in the mix. I drive El Paso to Van Horn regularly and there are places in I-10 that are so bad they will throw you off the road if you’re not carefull.
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posted on
08/31/2011 9:00:59 PM PDT
by
Tornillo
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Well I’ll be damned. The Texas Legislature did something that didn’t threaten anyone’s life, liberty or property. And it even makes a lot of sense. Incredible.
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posted on
08/31/2011 9:07:23 PM PDT
by
DaGman
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