Newsgroups: ont.general
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Message-ID: <1989May10.153912.28675@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <852@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu> <9556@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <13665@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1989May9.152855.27968@utzoo.uucp> <295@moegate.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10 May 89 15:39:12 GMT

In article <295@moegate.UUCP> soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes:
>>Before the great 55 Mania hit the US, there were several states whose
>>daytime speed limit was "a reasonable and safe speed".  Literally; no
>>numeric limit at all.
>
>I was under the impression that the only state with a system like that was
>Nevada, hardly qualifies as "several states". 

Conceivably it changed while I wasn't looking, but Montana was another
"reasonable and safe" state when I was a kid -- we vacationed there at
one time, and my father liked the speed limit :-) -- and I seem to recall
seeing a table with three or four such states in it.
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