Washington D.Cunsurprisingly has the lowest speed limit in the USA at just 55mph, although technically it doesn’t have any rural freeways, so its fastest roads are urban freeways.Texashas the highest speed limit in the USA at a brisk 85mph. Taking all states into account, the average max...
Freeway Speed Limits and Traffic Fatalities in Washington State. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 34, 2002, pp. 13–18. Google Scholar, Crossref7. Vernon, D. D. Cook, L. J. Peterson, K. J. and Dean, J. M.. Effect of Repeal of the National Maximum Speed Limit Law on ...
so the average speed limit drops a bit lower. If you do travel highways or the Interstate, you may have wondered what the "speed margin" is. Are you legally allowed to go 10 miles an hour over the speed limit?
Some speed limits don't make a lot of sense...those are the ones that are somewhat arbitrary and you'll see vary state to state. For example, in NJ, the speed limit around school zones was 25 mph, which was plenty slow enough (and heavily enforced usually...you weren't going...
Location: Western Washington Vehicle: 2017 Prius Prime Model: Plug-in Advanced It is fast enough for me. I once took a trip from Seattle to Denver going South thru Oregon and Idaho. The speed limit was usually 80 on the freeways. Set the cruise control to 90 and just cruised. I ...
Indiana interstates and highways could soon see a new pace. Hoosier lawmakers are considering raising the state's speed limit from 70 mph to 75 mph, which will undoubtedly ignite a debate about safety and efficiency, as well as our need to be in such a hurry. ...
Still, there are some roads in our state that have become notorious for depleting the motoring public’s disposable income. While we do have an Interstate Highway system that connects most of our major cities. Quite often it’s our state highways that offer the best opportunity for an unsuspe...
In 1993, America’s northeastern Interstate Highways in the NYC-Washington Corridor permitted a 70 mph speed limit, but traffic congestion and tollway stops limited drivers to about 60 mph average speed. Amtrak Metroliner topped 110 mph but averaged below 65 mph with 4 stops between NYC and Wash...
Arguably the latter is much more worthy of national attention even if it could be hived off in an intra-state network. Roanoke-Charlottesville-NoVA is a corridor of interest mostly to college kids, to be blunt. 6) It seems like we all did this exercise (caution: linkrot on the graphics...
If Swiss planners were hired to design an intercity rail network for New York State, they might propose something that looks like this: The trip times depicted on the map are a few minutes longer than intended, especially next to a terminus station like Niagara Falls, Watertown, and Ithaca....