Speed limit increase? (Jackson, Madison, Bruce: 2014, crime, home)

[madison2013]

Speed limit increase push for Miss. interstates | Local News - WAPT Home

Might as well. Not very many people do 70mph usually it's higer.

[golden eagles fan]

I don't really have a problem with it. It's especially doable in rural areas.

[GrandviewGloria]

We all have heard the old saying:
"There's the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. Occasionally, they get together to do something that is both stupid and evil. That is called BIPARTISANSHIP."

Lawmakers in favor of such a change in the law are, at the very least, selfish and irresponsible individuals. And it is highly likely that they are, quasi-legally or secretly, taking 'monies' from 'trucking interests'. The presence of organized crime in the Trucking Industry is rather pervasive.

As for grown adults who feel the need to habitually drive fast, I regard them as having a criminal mentality. And then there are the losers, who feel that if they can just drive fast enough, they will catch up and become winners. Doesn't work that way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOoIPDGS11E

As the responsible gentleman in the baseball cap said, things are already bad enough at seventy miles per hour. http://www.wlox.com/story/15916158/3...-held-together

And as my husband says, "The Laws of Physics are not matters of consensus." Speed kills. Lawmakers who vote for increased speeds are MURDERERS.

[jdg92]

I hope it passes. I usually drive 75-80 mph when I travel home to Nola. Hopefully Louisiana will also increase the speed limit in rural parts of I-55. I think most modern cars can safely handle 75-85 mph. Mississippi needs to pass a law that requires drivers to be in the right lane unless passing. Louisiana has signs posted along the interstate that say "Keep Right Except to Pass." I think Mississippi's say something like "Slower Traffic Keep Right" which means to stay in the right lane if you are traveling under the speed limit. Left lane cruisers is what really makes it dangerous. It is not safe to be passing in the right lane.

[golden eagles fan]

You'll get run over in Louisiana if you're not doing 80!

[GrandviewGloria]

Yeah, those cars can "safely handle" high speeds, until something, ANYTHING, happens.

WJTV News Channel 12 - JPD Officer Bruce Jacob killed in I-55 crash

Four dead, one critically injured in Holmes Co. wreck

And those three nice boys from Broadmoor Baptist, to whose death I linked in my first post, were hurrying to get to church services at college. Not drunk. Not drugging. Just driving fast - maybe no faster than the rather high Speed Limit...


Have they fixed the interstates in Louisiana? I've refused to go there, except by plane, several times, during trips back to Mississippi. As I remember it, the right lanes are torn up in many places, forcing one to:
A) Drive extremely slowly, in the right-hand lane - as in 30 or 40 mph, which is dangerous
B) Drive in the less-torn-up left-hand lane, which is problematic for obvious reasons
C) Not go to Louisiana, anymore

We began opting for 'C'. I understand that many large employers refused to locate in Louisiana, because of the deplorable condition of the roads. Are people really expected to drive at these potentially deadly speeds, on bad roads? Or have those roads been fixed?

We love Lafayette. Poupart's and Red's, alone, were enough to have made us want to move there, when we'd finally had enough of Mississippi. But the thought of having to drive at reckless speeds, on roads where a prudent person would creep, was enough to keep us from moving there.

[zblanton1]

Speed limits on interstates in Texas are 80MPH, so I don't see why the interstates in Mississippi can't be 80. And like a previous poster said above, not many people do 70 or even 60, which is the set speed limit on I-55 North between Madison & Jackson. Most of us do anywhere between 80 and 100MPH. But I do mostly 80 during my commute to work.

[sammyreynolds1977]

I hope it passes. It's about time.