Cool then I will drive 90 Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ranzau, Joe" <[email protected]> To: "CaveTex" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:07 AM Subject: CaveTex: Texas to Soon Have Country's Highest Speed Limit
> http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=729A0C3B-9237-42D9- > BE1A-6C9D1056A975 > > Several hundred miles of Interstates 10 and 20 in west Texas will soon > have the highest posted speed limits in the country, 1200 WOAI news > reported today. > > A measure which takes effect next month will allow Tex-DOT to raise the > speed limit to 80 miles an hour on Interstate 10 between Kerr and > Culverson counties, and on Interstate 20 in Ward and Culberson counties. > > > "Those stretches of highway are pretty isolated and pretty long, and > they're actually designed for that speed of travel," State Rep Pete > Gallego (D-Alpine) who wrote the new law, told 1200 WOAI news. > Gallego says he expects Tex-DOT to erect the first "SPEED LIMIT 80" > signs in west Texas 'within six weeks,' and he added 'I want to be there > when that happens.' > > The speed limit in rural west Texas was raised to 70 miles per hour > after the national 55 mile an hour speed limit was lifted in December of > 1995. In 1999, the limit in west Texas and elsewhere was raised to 75 > miles an hour. > > "One of the fascinating things we've already learned from raising the > speed limit from 70 to 75 is that the accident and fatality rate has > actually gone down in those counties, because people get where they're > going faster." > > The 80 mile an hour limit would be the highest posted speed limit in the > country. Arizona law allows speed limits of 'no more than 85 miles an > hour' but no highway in Arizona has an 85 mile an hour speed limit, and > a measure to raise the speed limits from 75 to 80 on rural stretches on > Interstate 10 in that state died in the legislature. > > Gallego concedes that raising the speed limit is not the best way to > save gasoline, but he is philosophical about that. > > "Driving 80 is not a mandate. You don't have to drive 80. If you think > it will save gasoline, you can drive 55 through west Texas if you want > to. 80 is just the maximum speed you can drive." > > Gallego points out that under the ambitious 'Trans Texas Corridor' plan > proposed by Governor Perry becomes reality, all of the 'Trans Texas > Corridor' highways will have posted speed limits of 85 miles an hour. > > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to mailto:[email protected] > with the following message--unsubscribe cavetex. For help and > information go to www.cavetex.net. > List administrator: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to mailto:[email protected] with the following message--unsubscribe cavetex. For help and information go to www.cavetex.net. List administrator: mailto:[email protected]
