Texas - 85-mph speed limit - Page 2

Twiztog43 · 2011-04-10 12:52:53

Speed doesn't kill people. Sudden stops kill people. ^ we need to control the federal government not the other way around. QFT Way I look at it is, I have a motorcycle, I am not required to wear a helmet in RI, I can ride my turbo cbr1000rr with no helmet but I can't drive my audi a6 wagon without a seat belt. I try and wear my seat belt but if for some reason I choose not to I should not get pulled over for it. Anyway cool thing on the 85mph.... I95 though RI is 55 =/At speed, a helmet only makes a difference between an open or closed casket funeral. Yes, I do have a cycle.

04-17-2011, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by lordagrabah

I think the cops just give speeding tickets in order to raise revenue for the state. I was watching "Speeders" and they gave a guy a ticket for going 50 in a 35. You mean to tell me that the extra 15 miles an hour made him a reckless driver? It's all a scam. We have people getting shot up in Dorchester and there is no one to help; why? because all the cops are busy camping out like Call of Duty snipers. It's a bunch of......never mind.
Good job Texas

That kind of thinking is a bit too extreme. Many speed limits may not be accurately set for the area, but the idea of speed limits definitely has legitimacy. I'm not going to pretend that I've never crossed the speed limit, but there are clearly some areas where you should not be going over the speed limit or by any significant amount. I know of a few 35 mph zones that I would not even think about going over the speed limit. I also always make sure to adhere to the speed limit in residential areas. I even find myself staying below the speed limit in a lot of residential areas. It really depends a lot on traffic flow, traffic entering/exiting the road as well as any possibility of other things (such as animals or pedestrians) being present in the road. Even if you're an amazing driver, you can't always expect/react to the actions of some of those things.

Another thing to keep in mind is that these laws can't be made to accommodate the better portion of drivers. It may be unfortunate for those that are truly good drivers, but I'd rather have laws that better manage the terrible drivers out there.

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Originally Posted by tjbourgoyne

Won't happen. First, they have to spend a lot of money to conduct test on that stretch of highway. Second, even if it did change to 85 all it would take is a senator's daughter to get in an accident and then they would pass a bill to change it back, or, the Federal government could say hey, we don't like it, change it back or we cut highway repair funds.

I don't really think you made a strong point... they didn't have any issues increasing it to 80 a few years back and 80 is already an extremely rare speed limit. I don't really see there being a huge difference in the process of changing it to 85.

I'm making a pretty big assumption here, but I'm willing to bet it's fairly reasonable. The proposed areas are relatively remote locations and on a very small distance of highway (when compared to the total distance of highways in the US). Even assuming for up to 10 immediate relatives of each senator, that's only 1000 people. The chances of any randomly selected 1000 people to be involved on those specific sections of road are fairly low. That's accounting for all the senators. It's probably safe to say that most of the senators wont have immediate relatives that will even drive that stretch of road. Admittedly, I took your comment exactly as stated. There are probably quite a few other political positions that have enough influence to push for it to be reduced if a family member was hurt on one of those stretches of road. I still think the chances of there being a significant incident that would cause it to revert back are fairly low. I think it would take a significantly increased accident (or fatality) rate to really force it back to 80.

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