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- Subject: Re: If you dump Bush, dump Congress too, (at least.)
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 04:13:47 -0600
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- I drove through Nevada several times before the national speed limit when
- Nevada had NO speed limit. Most people drove around 75. You'd see
- high-performance vehicles zip past, and you'd pass clunkers in the right
- lane going 50. No mass carnage. People for the most part driving quite
- sensibly. And from the traffic comparisons I remember reading back when
- raising the national limit to 65 was debated, Nevada actually had lower
- than average accident and fatality rates than the national average (and
- they were adjusted for population densities).
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- Closer to home, I noted a reduction in average speed since the limit was
- raised to 65. The 55 limit was so absurd there was, in effect, NO speed
- limit on the highways. I had to drive 80 just to keep being passed by
- trucks (which I hate). The 65 limit was, at least, closer to what people
- feel comfortable driving and now I only get passed by trucks when I'm under
- 70.
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- Speed limits have a place, but a limited one. It should be up to the
- states and local authorities to put a limit on speed based on road
- condition, population density, and other LOCAL factors. The national limit
- is absurd.
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