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From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile)
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Subject: Re: Re: 65 MPH? (Northway)
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 01:50:18 EST
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> 
> >As to highest POSTED speed: the Adirondack Northway used to be posted at
> >90 MPH. I remember riding up that way with Dad a few times.  And the station
> >wagon (with about a 32 gallon gas tank) had no trouble holding that speed.
> 
> When was this?  I used to live 2 miles from the Northway since I was a kid
> and the speed limit there was always 65 - that was the maximum speed allowed
> in New York State.
> 
> -Mike Moroney
> ..decwrl!rhea!jon!moroney

I don't recall the exact section.  I am pretty sure of the speed.  I also
seem to remember stretches of the Thruway at 80, but I might be wrong about
that.  Anyhow, it would have been around '63 or '64, I guess.  The road
was two lanes each way, not much hard shoulder but lots of grass median, and
some tandem semis.

And I remember reading that the Thruway and the Northway were exempted from
the maximum speed limit laws, each being operated by an authority that was
responsible for building and maintaining a road that would be safe at that
speed.

The Thruway was around long before the Interstate system.  So was the Northway.
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