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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In the Seventies (with most suspensions being akin to a Conestoga wagon) Brock Yeats ran a series of coast to coast automobile races to protest the 55mph speed limit. Hundreds of underground racers made the trip at extraleagal speeds and made it NYC to Long Beach in 35 - 40 hours. There was only one major accident which totaled the car but resulted in minor injuries.
Speed does not kill. The Autobahn has far fewer accidents without limits than speed limited highways do. I contend it is the jr. Deputy in the left lane doing 55 so nobody else can get around that is a greater danger than the Charger doing an unimpeded 90 -- But if there were no limits there would be no fines and therefore no revenue generated for the police union.
Wir Farhn Farhn Farhn auf der Autobahn...
Like George Carlin said, “If you drive under the speed limit, you’re an idiot, and if you drive over the speed limit, you’re a maniac.”
No, on an open road I ride/drive in the right lane except to pass. However, I've had the opposite experience of mamelukesabre: I usually encounter the idiot in the city who thinks the left lane is for faster traffic. Truth is that left exits are common in DFW, and the left lane is used accordingly.
Actually, you should never be in the right lane in DFW unless you're exiting, because right lanes turn into exit lanes and you will get stuck in an exit lane in heavy traffic at some point.
I rarely, and I mean rarely, speed in town, and I will ride the HOV lane at the speed limit, which seems to piss the occasional jerk off. The HOV lane is to ease congestion and requires multiple passengers or a motorcycle to use. The speed limit however, is still the speed limit.
Close. He said that everyone driving slower than you was an idiot and everyone driving faster than you were was a maniac. From my experience, it's a dead on observation of human nature.
Yep, that was it.
Where were you stationed? We were at Bitburg in '81, but went to the Spang chapel. My mom could make the 10 mile stretch between Bitburg and Spang in 8 minutes...in a 70s VW van. I learned how to drive in Germany and got my first DL there.
It is an *hole thing to do regardless. The reality is that traffic moves much faster than the speed limit in many parts of the country. This is because speed limits are too low.
That was the fastest I’ve ever seen a car go on the highway, by far. I was near 80, and I think he was twice my speed. I’d been on the Autobahn and Autostrada in the early 90s, but the areas I was driving, they were about as congested as some American highways. There wasn’t room to go that fast.
Ditto that.
Georgia only recently passed the left lane law. Evidently, that person didn't get the message. Illinois has a left lane law for some time, and people still hang out in the left lane..
In most big cities I try to stay in the middle lane on 35 unless I am exiting. But it is often hard to do because the roads keep adding lanes to the right and left, so one has to change lanes constantly. Terrible confusion downtown as one approaches 30. The first time driver staying on 35 to Waco can easily get in the wrong lane. Fact is that the road was never designed to handle the present amount of traffic. 35 probably should have followed the Loop 12 route, but I understand the merchants insisted that the interchange be put east of the river to bring cars into town. Ironically, almost all that business has disappeared from downtown.
I just punch it, pass them, signal and move over in front of them. It doesn't take long for me to get back to legal speed, nor for them to return to their brain-dead oblivious state.
Staying in the left hand lane is a mall ninja mind set.
Usually these people are the lowest on the totem pole at work and this is their only way of “bossing” people.
Typically real losers and douche bags.
Truth is that left exits are common in DFW
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left exits are prohibited on eisenhower interstates and have been for 20 years. There are still a few around that are very old. Not very many though.
“You must ride an antique 74 inch shovel head with a kick starter and a 4 speed tranny.”
LOL, nope, but wish I had one :)
I was at Hahn for 2 years, and Spangdahlem for two years. My unit was responsible for the short range air defense of Hahn, Bitburg, and Spangdahlem. When I was booted to Battalion HQ at Spang, I kept my apartment in Traben-Trarbach. I didn’t know at the time I was going to extend my tour by a year and a half. Glad I did, two of the best years of my life.
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