I Can't Drive 55 !

[392cobra]

Just like the title says it is getting harder to drive slow (70 mph) in Texas.
So adding the 5 mph standard to the speed limit as a normal speed,I like it.

So if you would like to regularly use 6th gear as it was intended,come to Texas.

We have miles and miles of miles and miles.

[mreid]

Looks like a bottleneck in Austin. A bit of environmentalist extremism I suspect. I may have to move to TX!

[Avmaviator]

But... it's Texas..... In the Western part of the state it is necesary to have 80mph to out run mexican gangs and tumbleweeds

That is nice though. 55 around all Chicago is pure madness, that is why everybody does 70-75 too, heh.

[fordracing65]

Also, Texas cops love out of state license plates, especially when its a polished Kirkham going 90mph in an 80mph.

[tcrist]

It does not matter what the speed limit is. People will drive 10-15 MPH over it anyway. In the rain, cutting in and out of traffic to boot. At least here on the left coast anyway.

[392cobra]

That 5 mph might not matter in small States where you look at trips in terms of miles but in Texas we use "how many hours".
A trip across Texas is 14 hours.That 5 mph increase knocks an hour off that trip.

That is why they increased the limit.

By the end of that trip you feel like you were born,raised and died of old age on the road.....and you haven't even crossed the damn border yet.
FWIW It's 900 miles across Texas.

[392cobra]

Someone has already driven 200 mph on Texas 130 !

Someone has already driven 200 mph on Texas 130 - Houston Chronicle

[Ron61]

Fred,

That is great but we will never see that kind of speed limits out here. For one thing this republic wants to lower them as much as possible and another thing, the highways and roads at least in Northern Calif. are so bad that you would tear your vehicle up driving that fast on many of them. I haven't been farther South than Haward for some time so don't know if the highways and roads down in that area are kept up any better or not. But we have overpasses here on I-5 which is our main North/South freeway that they are having to close regularly to patch in order to make are they don't collapse when one of the big rigs goes over them. They have made some headway for about 50 miles South but the whole highway system in this state needs to be replaced. They did build a new bridge in Redding to replace an old one that was starting to sag as it was on one of the most heavily traveled streets around. And I doubt if my Taurus would do 80 MPH anyway.

Ron

[Bill Bess]

Here in Lake Havasu City, AZ we have many speed limits and road hazards. While the main roads and highways are 65 to 75 mph which is really 80+ , we do enjoy good roads and few cops. The biggest problem around town is the Burro Crossings, the little guys go down to the lake to drink and then back out into the desert, unfortunately for us and the donkeys..they cross the road. The other day one took out two motorcycles at one time. The riders went to the hospital, the borro just ran off limping.