Texas highway would be the first to allow 85 mph speed limit

[03EBZ06]

Can't drive 55? … 65? … 75? How about 85?

A stretch of Texas highway may soon be the first road in the country to have a posted 85 mph speed limit.

The Texas Department of Transportation said this week that part of a toll road being built between Austin and San Antonio will be tested to see if motorists can safely push it to 85.


"It was designed under extremely high design parameters," Darren McDaniel, the state's Speed Management Director told WOAI radio.

Texas and Utah are the only states with 80-mph limits on some roadways. But Texas turned heads when lawmakers gave the green light to go to 85 if needed.

"The higher the speed limit, the more accidents there are, the more injuries and the more deaths," Jerry Johns, president of the Southwest Insurance Information Institute, told Reuters last year.

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Man, I need to move to Texas!

 

[CashMan]

I think the higher the rate of speed, the more deadly the accidents are, not more accidents. Kinda like with Planes, there are less accidents then cars, but when there is a crash usually no one survives.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Get the bullet trains built.

 

[joseephuss]

I think the higher the rate of speed, the more deadly the accidents are, not more accidents. Kinda like with Planes, there are less accidents then cars, but when there is a crash usually no one survives.

Those toll roads are not used that often, so although the crashes would be more destructive there shouldn't be too many of them on that stretch of road.

 

[rkell87]

good!

 

[Denim Chicken]

I don't think my truck can even go that fast.

 

[StanleySpadowski]

I think the national speed limit should be dropped back to 55.

Everyone's in such a hurry to get nowhere plus it would save countless gallons of gasoline.

 

[rkell87]

I think the national speed limit should be dropped back to 55.

Everyone's in such a hurry to get nowhere plus it would save countless gallons of gasoline.

glad you aren't a decision maker

 

[WoodysGirl]

I was pleasantly surprised to see that parts of I-45 between Houston and Dallas were 75mph.....and of course, I drove 85.

I'm generally not comfortable driving anything over that, so if it was raised to 85, I'd probably drive 85.

 

[wittenacious]

I think the higher the rate of speed, the more deadly the accidents are, not more accidents. Kinda like with Planes, there are less accidents then cars, but when there is a crash usually no one survives.

Hmmm? Never thought of it like that. I have no statistics to back up why that seems to make sense but, at face value, it does. So until disproven, this will now become my way of looking at it.

 

[StevenOtero]

Hammer down

 

[trickblue]

I drive 130 quite often...

There isn't much traffic on it as it is a toll road... the speed limit is already 80... so 5 mph isn't going to matter a great deal...

 

[03EBZ06]

I would be going 100+ with my Z06

 

[YosemiteSam]

I drive 130 quite often...

There isn't much traffic on it as it is a toll road... the speed limit is already 80... so 5 mph isn't going to matter a great deal...

Someone will get to the box a little bit faster.

 

[MonsterD]

Get the bullet trains built.

Forget that, this:

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[Yeagermeister]

I already drive 85. If I drive any slower I'll get ran over.

 

[Rynie]

Everyone drives that fast anyways, so it won't be a huge change, imo.

 

[Duane]

I already drive 85. If I drive any slower I'll get ran over.

Yeah, I get on I-45 everyday and it's go 80 or get run over.

 

[viman96]

Both Nevada and Montana at one time had no limit on certain highways.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Both Nevada and Montana at one time had no limit on certain highways.

I knew about Montana, but not Nevada. Montana I believe has one now, but they don't (or didn't) enforce it. They put it in place I believe because the government said they had to have one or they would stop funding Montana highways.