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From: cater@mcc-hi.UUCP (J Cater)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: 65 MPH?
Message-ID: <113@mcc-hi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 11:55:52 EST
Article-I.D.: mcc-hi.113
Posted: Mon Mar  3 11:55:52 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Mar-86 06:16:34 EST
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
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Summary: New Mexico Speed Limits

References: <152@ttidcc.UUCP> <567@mhuxl.UUCP> <315@ptsfb.UUCP> <107@daemen.uucp>

In article <107@daemen.uucp>, wersan@daemen.uucp (John Slasher Wersan III) writes:
> In article <3289@hplabsb.UUCP>, piety@hplabsb.UUCP (Bob Piety) writes:
> > 
> > I wonder how many of the 55 MPH supporters were licenced to drive when the
> > limts were 70 MPH?....In fact, how many were even walking?
> > 
> > Bob
> 
> I was about 8 when my folks left Arizona for NYC by car, the speed limit
> then was 65. I remember vividly a stretch of roadway in New Mexico, we 
> were doing ~70 and had not seen a car going in either direction
> for about 3+ hours (We did see a lot of sand though :-}).
> 
> 	The point that I am trying to make is that the speed limits
> should be dependent on the road conditions, and the location of said 
> roadway. If you have ever driven on Long Island, you would know that
> it is almost impossible to do 55, let alone drive above the speed limit!
> (If you don't know, the LIE could pass as the largest parking lot on
> the east coast :-})
> 

Just last month ~Feb 15, a driving trip through the New Mexico salt
flats around Los Alamos and Socorro shows that the drivers are still
doing 70+ out there.  Almost every car I encountered (passed!) was
going 70-75 mph.  Some passed me at probably 80-85 mph.  I don't
really think anyone in the New Mexico flatlands and West Texas prairies
observes that 55 after leaving major city limits.  Remember New Mexico
only has a TOTAL state population of somewhere around 1.5 to 2 Million
residents.  Considering the difference in areas between New York and New
Mexico and the BIG Difference in population, 55 in both places is really
rather idiotic.

John