Things are bigger in Texas, maybe even the speed limit (El Paso: legal, areas)

[PanTerra]

http://gorvtexas.com/speed.htm

There's a lot of wide open spaces out there in Texas, and a lot of really great distances between the cities and towns that populate the 254 counties of the Lone Star State.

Perhaps that what Legislators were thinking recently when they approved a speed limit increase on certain Texas highways that will allow daytime motorists to cruise 80 MPH in order to get from one point to the next, the fastest legal speed limit in the entire United States.


Or maybe it's because Texans just like to go really fast - regardless the speed limit. That's how one lawmaker put it during the legislative debate, citing Texas motorists disregard for posted speed limits as they travel down highways across the state.

The speed limit change actually affects only two stretches of rural highway in remote areas of the state. Speed signs are being changed in 10 mostly rural counties of West Texas: a 432-mile stretch of Interstate 10 between El Paso and Kerrville, and 89 miles of Interstate 20 between Monahans and the I-10 interchange at the cusp of the Jeff Davis Mountains.

[Lucidus]

The article is behind a subscriber wall, could you summarize it for us?

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by Lucidus

The article is behind a subscriber wall, could you summarize it for us?

Sorry about that. I edited it with another link.

[theother]

Hopefully other states follow..85 isn't bad I sometimes go that and the max around here is 70-75.

[catman]

I heard on the news in passing (no pun intended) that raising the limit to 85 mph is being considered. It wasn't stated on which stretches, but probably the current 80-mph ones.

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by catman

I heard on the news in passing (no pun intended) that raising the limit to 85 mph is being considered. It wasn't stated on which stretches, but probably the current 80-mph ones.

I posted a quote on the op giving the proposed highways. It's not like I'll be driving there.

[Lucidus]

That's how one lawmaker put it during the legislative debate, citing Texas motorists disregard for posted speed limits as they travel down highways across the state.

LOL, who would do such a thing? Surely not Texans, there must be some mistake. It's probably New Mexican drivers doing that.

[annie_himself]

I wish other states would do this, I don't like having low speed limits in rural counties/parishes.

[Trae713]

You might as well not even had a speed limit. The signs should just say "Go!".

[Fillmont]

Originally Posted by Scarface713

You might as well not even had a speed limit. The signs should just say "Go!".

Or "Andale!"