>>> I believe rural Montana Interstates for
>>> example, have no speed limit.
>I'm not absolutely certain, but didn't the feds
>threaten to withhold money if they didn't enact
>a limit?
There was never a time (in our lives) when Montana had "no speed limit". On
some wide-open-spaces highways, however, the speed limit was not a fixed
number but a legal term: "reasonable and prudent". A tad out of the
ordinary, but not unique - in many states, including my own, the law
requires a "reasonable and prudent" REDUCED speed when conditions require.
In any event, you could still get a ticket in Montana for unreasonable and
imprudent speed - although it's my understanding that the penalty was
minimal.
That rule worked pretty well for the Montana natives until some Bozo got a
ticket for high speed motoring and decided to challenge the law as
unconstitutionally vague. He won, the Montana legislature enacted specific
speed limits, and everyone else lost.
Jim Hill
Madison WI
PS: Just to get my $.02 in before the argument dies, if you're in the left
hand lane of a four-lane highway (2 lanes each way) and there's no one in
the right hand lane for a reasonable distance ahead - you are in the WRONG
lane . . . whether the law requires you to move over or not.
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