Or.... At least the sppeding tickets won't be so bad ;-)
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Barrett [mailto:speedtimer@beyondbb.com]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 07:34 PM
To: 'Ed Van Scoy', 'Land-Speed List'
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Faster towing!?
I guess we will have to slow down when we go thru Cedar City.Glen-----
Original Message ----- From: "Ed Van Scoy" To: "Land-Speed List" Sent: Monday,
February 18, 2008 7:17 PMSubject: [Land-speed] Faster towing!?> Utah Considers
Joining 80 MPH Speed Limit Club>> 80MPH limit unveiled in Texas. Texas may
lose the distinction of being the> state with the highest legal speed limit in
the US. With the blessing of > the> Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT),
state Representative James A> Dunnigan (R-Taylorsville) introduced legislation
that would test the > effects> of higher speed limits on a stretch of
Interstate 15.>> The state House Business and Labor Committee unanimously
approved > Dunnigan's> bill on Wednesday.>> "The engineering studies that we
conduct would determine what the > appropriate> speed would be," a UDOT
Government Affairs Director Linda Hull explained > on> Wednesday. "Looking at
it from the outside we think it might be eighty > miles> per hour.">> The test
would consider the 85th percentile speed -- the actual speed at > which> the
majority of traffic is moving in safety -- along with ten other > factors to>
determine whether to increase the I-15 limit from 75 MPH to 80 or more. >
UDOT> would report back on the safety effects of the change to legislators who
> would> determine whether limits could be raised elsewhere in the state.>> A
similar bill that would have raised the speed limit to 80 MPH last year > was>
amended before becoming law. Instead of setting a top speed of 80, that > law>
mandates that all speed limits be set according to engineering studies.> The
same law also requires slower vehicles in the far left-hand lane to > yield>
when a faster vehicle approaches from behind. Texas officials approved an >
80> MPH limit on I-10 and I-20 in 2006>> Ed Van Scoy> #128 B/GT Corvette>
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