[Vision2020] Is Texas ready for 85-mph speed limit?

Sam Scripter moscowsam at charter.net
Fri Oct 26 21:21:03 PDT 2012


Well, my reminiscing likely was inaccurate, based on my web research this evening.

I was on the Kansas Turnpike, not the Eisenhower. 80 mph, not 85, is probably what I saw posted, and tried, briefly.

So the new 85 mph in Texas on a 40 mile or so section of new toll highway is 5 mph higher. Texas is "bigger" again, isn't it?

My experience was in 1969, on my way from SFValley State Coll to Ohio State for a summer institute.

S





Sent from Galaxy Note GT-N7000Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:SamIam reminisces:

"I remember legally driving that posted speed limit 43-plus years ago in a '68 Mustang with a 289 V-8 on the Eisenhower expressway across Kansas."

Come on, Sam.  You are talkin' forty years ago (before speed limits were of any concern) in Kansas, the state that invented checkerboard farming, roads/highways are straighter than a rifle shot, and the closest thing to a hill is a speed bump at the local general store.

Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)




On Oct 26, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Sam Scripter <moscowsam at charter.net> wrote:

> I remember legally driving that posted speed limit 43-plus years ago in a '68 Mustang with a 289 V-8 on the Eisenhower expressway across Kansas.
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