[Vision2020] 85mph Highway has Speed Bumps

[Ron Force]

America’s Fastest Toll Road Crosses a Known Pig Route
by
CHUCK MATULA
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OCT 31 2012, 9:35 AM
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Texas State Highway 130 bisects an unremarkable and scrubby stretch of the Hill Country, giving drivers a route to San Antonio that bypasses the notoriously clogged I-35. The state’s newest toll road attracted particular notice because it boasts a 85 mph-speed limit, the highest in the nation. But now, the road is garnering headlines for another reason: the presence of feral hogs.
“That is known as a pig route,” Caldwell County Constable Victor Terrel told Vianna Davila of the San Antonio Express-News.
Since opening last week, Texas 130, which connects southeast Austin to Seguin, three collisions with animals have been reported on this 41-mile stretch of toll road. And the hits will probably keep coming. As an article in the San Antonio Express-News notes, Texas has the highest population of feral hogs in the country...
more:
http://www.tmdailypost.com/article/animals/america-s-fastest-toll-road-crosses-known-pig-route
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