Last week an Oklahoma DOT spokesman said the agency did not want to comply with a new law raising the speed limit. Here’s the background. Under current law the maximum allowable speed limit is 65 on two lane roads and 70 on divided highways. The Turnpike is 75. Remember “Convoy”? “We rolled up Interstate 44 […]
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Washington DOT refuses to raise speed limit
Last week the Washington state Secretary of Transportation said he did not want to comply with a new law raising the speed limit to 75. There was a press release with quotable quotes and fabricated figures, but in the end it was just a matter of opinion. Or should I say, from the beginning it […]
Visions of speed traps
Boston city councilors unanimously approved a request to allow police to ticket anybody who drives a car on a city street. Formally it’s a request to lower the speed limit to 20 everywhere, except where the city reduces it further. This requires legislative approval. The legislature previously gave Boston permission to post 20 mph speed […]
Crooked cops in Connecticut
Weston, Connecticut has a dirty police chief. Not the kind you see in Hollywood thrillers with drugs and dark alleys. His addiction is one of everyday life. He’s addicted to his illegal speed trap on Old Mill Road. It’s lined with 15 mph signs. A resident of a nearby town told me, “I have always […]
An implausible dream
To support the latest plea for a speed limit reduction, Somerville, Massachusetts politicians resurrected a ludicrous claim, a “health impact assessment” predicting that reducing the unposted speed limit from 30 to 25 will cause a huge reduction in death. Here’s where it goes off the rails: “Though this bill reduces the default speed limit on […]
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