Texas raises speed limit.

pawarrant · 06-25-2006, 09:55 AM

Texas raises spped limit to 80 m.p.h. on over 500 miles of highway.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197072,00.html

In a related story, last month Hillary Clinton endorses a return to the 55 m.p.h. national speed limit.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/11/1148.asp

Which direction do you want to go?

Greeney · 06-25-2006, 10:00 AM

Cars are safer than ever, saying that drivers a shitier than ususal lately. But I say 80mph all the way!

Hunter399 · 06-25-2006, 10:29 AM

GO TEXAS!!!1

too bad all the 80 mph streets are in the middle of no where....

BMW0 · 06-25-2006, 01:39 PM

Good for Texas, soon they might have an autobahn like Germany!

Asiann · 06-25-2006, 02:06 PM

I love Texas! That will mae my trip across it so much better!

monolith · 06-25-2006, 02:06 PM

Hitlery doesn't have a chance in 08. She's going to get crushed in the South and Midwest. Lower the speed limit over my dead body.

SiR · 06-25-2006, 07:13 PM

Yea, was suprise that the I-10 from west of San Antonio (don't know about the rest of the state) was at 80mph limit. Very nice!

pawarrant · 06-25-2006, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monolith

Hitlery doesn't have a chance in 08. She's going to get crushed in the South and Midwest. Lower the speed limit over my dead body.

Hitlery

whippersnapper · 06-25-2006, 08:26 PM

I'd like to see a return to someone walking in front of my car with a red flag. That way I'd feel safer and other motorists would be alerted to my presence on the road.

ase2dais · 06-25-2006, 08:29 PM

ok good

Now what about Kansas?

NaTuReB0Y · 06-25-2006, 09:22 PM

80 mph is normal driving for me...........

does it really matter what the speed limit is?

people don't drive the speed limit anyway.......55, 65, 80mph.....

Hunter399 · 06-25-2006, 11:56 PM

If the limit is 80, you can go 100 without it being a felony!

bavarian19 · 06-26-2006, 05:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hunter399

If the limit is 80, you can go 100 without it being a felony!

Im sure there is a much more stringent penalty for speeding in those areas...

N1 · 08-21-2006, 02:00 AM

The rise in population and in number of drivers that they simply dont know how to drive, will become the pretext to put speed limits under 70 and in the future we cannot drive. The car will be submitted to a central computer which controls everybody. They are going to destroy the pleasure of driving if they can. Against hitlery there and here ...

John · 08-21-2006, 07:44 AM

damn you hunter. lucky bastard. send over some of those law makers to ny plz.

vladinecko · 08-21-2006, 08:40 AM

hillary sounds awfully conservative for a democrat. i agree she has a very little chance in the next election just because she's already managed most young people to hate her and already possesses nicknames like "uptight bitch" or "ice queen" before the campaign even officially started.

Robin_NL · 08-21-2006, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pawarrant

Hitlery

+1

NFS · 08-21-2006, 10:23 AM

Sounds sensible to me.

80mph is a perfectly acceptable speed these days ... 55mph on the other hand is just dangerous - you'll be nodding off if you try to drive a couple of hundred miles on an empty road at 55mph.

Ryan@Motorwerks · 08-21-2006, 09:21 PM

Seriously guys, who does Hilary think she's gonna win over by lowering speed limits to 55?

pawarrant · 08-21-2006, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by 335e90

Seriously guys, who does Hilary think she's gonna win over by lowering speed limits to 55?

The same people she tries to scare by saying the Republicans are gonna take away their social security.

DPritchett · 08-22-2006, 10:21 AM

I lived in El Paso in the early 80's when the national speed limit was 55 -- I fondly remember the Director of the Department of Public Safety (the state police) being interviewed on a news show saying that his officers had better things to do than bother people who were going 10 or 15 mph over the speed limit.

No matter what the speed limit is, no one is going to drive 55 across a perfectly flat road in the middle of the desert in broad daylight!

longtran · 08-22-2006, 11:10 AM

we need to up the speed limit from LA to vegas...

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SiR Private First Class 1 Rep 145 Posts Drives: E34 525i, E92 335i Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL iTrader: (1)	Yea, was suprise that the I-10 from west of San Antonio (don't know about the rest of the state) was at 80mph limit. Very nice!
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NFS Major General 275 Rep 9,218 Posts Drives: M340i Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: UK iTrader: (0)	Sounds sensible to me. 80mph is a perfectly acceptable speed these days ... 55mph on the other hand is just dangerous - you'll be nodding off if you try to drive a couple of hundred miles on an empty road at 55mph.
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Ryan@Motorwerks Captain 48 Rep 963 Posts Drives: X3M Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Houston, TX iTrader: (0)	Seriously guys, who does Hilary think she's gonna win over by lowering speed limits to 55?
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longtran Lieutenant General 1431 Rep 16,628 Posts Drives: E90 M3 Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: CA iTrader: (105) Garage List 2006 325i [0.00]	we need to up the speed limit from LA to vegas...
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