Posted on 06/07/2012 5:28:32 PM PDT by bgill
The Texas Department of Transportation is considering the move on a portion of state Highway 130 that would run north-south between Austin and Seguin, a town just east of San Antonio, spokesman Mark Cross said Thursday.
The agency is looking at the toll road's topography, checking what speed most drivers are traveling on existing parts of the highway and ensuring the access points and cross-sections would still be safe with an 85 mph speed limit, Cross said.
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Of course, it's only fair that they limit drivers to those who can pass an eyesight and reaction-time test, and whose vehicles are stable at a minimum of 100 MPH.
You'd be surprised how many "road-worthy" cars go unstable above 100MPH.
And at how many licensed drivers can't see and/or have lousy reaction time.
whatever
You must ride an antique 74 inch shovel head with a kick starter and a 4 speed tranny.
I-10 had an 85 mph limit from Buckeye to the California border in the 1960s and it wasn't changed until Nixon imposed the idiot double nickle limit in 1973.
good point, but if you are getting passed on the right, maybe you need to move over to the right lane. Simple. I follow the rule of stay to the right most of the time and only use the left lane to pass. Too bad more people didn’t follow this rule. Nothing worse than mindless drivers pacing each other at 65mph backing up traffic wanting to do 80-90 when one could pass and then get the heck over to the right. It’s like these drivers are oblivious. Don’t they look in their rear view mirror?
In some states they will get a ticket for doing that.
Took me a few minutes to get to the top of the rise....and then out in front of me, there was miles and miles of highway.....and he was gone. Nowhere in sight.
That was spooky. He must have had it to the floor.
85? What is TX DPS going to do to slow them to that speed?? Last time I drove that stretch of road, I was doing 75 and 18 wheelers were blowing my doors off as per the CB speak.
Ummm...slow down themselves?
I damn near got blown off the road going from Austin to Fredericksburg in the 1970s by a TDPS cruiser that blew by me (I was doing 70 in a 55) doing I dunno...90???
Saw him a bit later pulled into a truck stop having lunch.
Gotta luv Texas highways.
I'm still alive, so are my 3 passengers and nobody I encountered on the way suffered in any way.
I 44 east of Tulsa is good road and fast.
A year ago, I had just passed a big semi doing 80 + and was doing close to 85 when a pair of Oklahoma Highway Patrolmen came up behind me with lights blazing at 100 or just over.
I’m in Tulsa from time to time and 85 is SOP on I-44 in Oklahoma...
I have been known to either split the lanes and pass between them or go around them on the shoulder or in the ditch.
Invariably, they are either too old and cranky or too recently from a country with no traffic conventions at all to be driving anyway.
I lived in Italy for 3.5 years and drove 100+ routinely on the autostrada and similar roads. It was really not that big of a deal, however all I did was drive I did nothing else. I did it with the family in the car all of the time. In fact I got grief for slowing below 100 a few times.
Correct...if you have never driven to El Paso you will pray for an 85 MPH speed limit within an hour of driving. For those of you against it it is not manidatory to drive 85, stay in the right lane and enjoy the trip.
That's what I dealt with a few weeks ago while driving back to DFW from San Antonio on I-35, it was very frustrating.
When I was in Germany fifteen years ago, the insurance policy offered less protection above 130 klicks. So you were on your own dime if you decided to travel at, say, 200. I once took a trip with a guy driving a Beamer. He was on the Autobahn going toward Trier at 180. Ok, except that he had this habit of talking with both hands.
Well, I have had a chance to see what a “street legal” (no harley tax paid, wink wink) 883 does on the interstate. Pushing that puppy up to 70 is a fair challenge. 85, forget it. It ain’t a matter of stability — it felt to me like it was sitting in a parking lot — it’s a matter of oomph. Change the bike to a racing configuration and it’s a whole different story.
You young guys, and I can tell you are young, should look at history before making statements such as the above. Back in the day, before the phony oil crisis of the 70s, Texas had no speed limit at all and I believe their accident rate was no worse than any other state.
The Trans Texas Autobahn. I LIKE IT!
I would love to see Joan Claybrook’s face if she goes to Texas and has to drive !
I deal with drivers like this every morning going to work. I can’t even blame it on tourists as they are from Florida themselves.
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