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From: jj@nrcvax.UUCP (Utah)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: 65 MPH?
Message-ID: <507@nrcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 13:20:37 EST
Article-I.D.: nrcvax.507
Posted: Thu Feb 20 13:20:37 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 06:44:56 EST
References: <152@ttidcc.UUCP> <274@hropus.UUCP>
Reply-To: jj@nrcvax.UUCP (Jeff Jennings - NRC-Utah)
Organization: Network Research Research Corp.  Oxnard,CA
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In article <274@hropus.UUCP> ma@hropus.UUCP (Miguel Abdo) writes:
>> The California Highway Patrol and Caltrans (California Department of
>> Transportation) recommended ... that the 55-mph speed limit be boosted
>> to 65 mph along hundreds of miles of the state freeway system outside
>> metropolitan areas.
>> 
>
>Well, now, if the speed limit were to increase to 65 MPH, then people would
>go between 70 and 75 MPH.  Then what?  I suppose someone would suggest
>upping the speed limit to 75!
>
>I'm not trying to say I don't occasionally speed; we all do once in a
>while.  

Once in a while?  In Utah (and most other western states) the average
speed is around 65 (my guess).  I think that 55 might be acceptable in
most parts of New Jersey but just doesn't make any sense driving across
the Bonneville salt flats.

>But just because people don't like it doesn't mean the law should
>be changed.

Gee, I thought that that was what democracy was all about.  Shouldn't
the laws reflect the will of the majority of the people?

>After all, the original purpose of 55 was to save energy.


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