Texas House approves nation's fastest speed limit at 85 mph

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"The House of Representatives in Texas has approved a new transportation bill, and it includes legislation that would allow the Texas Department of Transportation to raise speed limits to 85 miles per hour. "

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/04/07/texas-house-approves-nations-fastest-speed-limit-at-85-mph/


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[02BlueGT]

IN

 

[radioguy6]

Texas is awesome. Just watch out for those silver Priuses doing 63 MPH in the left lane.

 

[SuperDaveGSE]

Time to move to Tehas!

 

[Theautoguy]

WE'RE ALL GOING TO TEXAS!!!

 

[Euro]

Damn

 

[KAR]

What states have the few highways that don't have a speed limit on certian stretches of the road? But either way Chicago needs this! Everyone does 80mph anyways.

 

[Turk]

Montana used to have the no speed limit, I think they got rid of that though.

 

[Angus]

Montana used to have the no speed limit, I think they got rid of that though.

I had a coworker that many years ago go went flying by a Montana State Trooper well over 120 in a TA and the trooper pulled him over and wrote him a $5 ticket for wasting natural resources or something like that.

 

[radioguy6]

Montana and Nevada used to have some stretches of highway with no posted speed limits...but today they are posted now.

Either way open roads like that with nobody around for miles upon miles you can pretty much do whatever you want.

 

[Phan10m]

I haven't been on this forum for about 3-4 years. I kept getting the damn we miss you emails and finally bit the bullet. lol I've sinced moved to Texas. Got rid of my Srt4. I now have a 04 Sportster 1200C and a 07 Yoda Tundra. Oh how things change. And Texas drivers Suck. 80 mph is pointless. Because people already go 80mph. I can't express enough through text how much they can not drive for sh1t. Making it to my destination on my sickle is a miracle every time.

 

[NitemareZX]

I haven't been on this forum for about 3-4 years. I kept getting the damn we miss you emails and finally bit the bullet. lol I've sinced moved to Texas. Got rid of my Srt4. I now have a 04 Sportster 1200C and a 07 Yoda Tundra. Oh how things change. And Texas drivers Suck. 80 mph is pointless. Because people already go 80mph. I can't express enough through text how much they can not drive for sh1t. Making it to my destination on my sickle is a miracle every time.

spelled cycle wrong

 

[Phan10m]

nah look it up scrub. sickle. I know how to spell m-o-t-o-r-c-y-c-l-e

 

[b00ya]

I haven't been on this forum for about 3-4 years. I kept getting the damn we miss you emails and finally bit the bullet. lol I've sinced moved to Texas. Got rid of my Srt4. I now have a 04 Sportster 1200C and a 07 Yoda Tundra. Oh how things change. And Texas drivers Suck. 80 mph is pointless. Because people already go 80mph. I can't express enough through text how much they can not drive for sh1t. Making it to my destination on my sickle is a miracle every time.

this man speaks the truth, only place ive been that has worse drivers then texas is floriduh.

 

[ChrisRac]

Montana's new posted limit is 75. At least it was back in 06 when i drove it

 

[Phan10m]

What I don't get is how you have 4 lanes on each side of the expressway w/ the speed limit 70mph and bumper to bumper traffic? Merging isn't even in Texas vocabulary. Mirrors? No one uses them. I can go on and on...

 

[b00ya]

What I don't get is how you have 4 lanes on each side of the expressway w/ the speed limit 70mph and bumper to bumper traffic? Merging isn't even in Texas vocabulary. Mirrors? No one uses them. I can go on and on...

merging in Texas means STOPPING at the end of the on ramp until an opening is there, along with the assholes that think there's only the right lane and they dont need to move over to let an oncoming car in.

 

[Phan10m]

Do you live in Texas now? Or just from there? ^^^^ I just moved to Euless from Carrollton. Anna isn't to far from C-Town

 

[NitemareZX]

Dave you know AZ drivers are right up there with tx....how many times did you almost crash my car here last year? ha

 

[Phan10m]

Uhhhhh I plead the 5th. But once I got on the highway while you were at class...that was fun

 

[b00ya]

Do you live in Texas now? Or just from there? ^^^^ I just moved to Euless from Carrollton. Anna isn't to far from C-Town

I live in Anna now, carrollton is about 45min away.

 

[Dan00Hawk]

I'm under the impression that Montana was essentially forced to adopt a speed limit or otherwise face losing federal funding for their highway system. And that's also what keeps other states from having higher speed limits. I may be entirely wrong, or perhaps Texas is just sticking their giant 10 gallon middle finger at the feds... I prefer to think that Texas is cool enough to say they don't care about any federal subsidies.

 

[NitemareZX]

Uhhhhh I plead the 5th. But once I got on the highway while you were at class...that was fun

You mean when you got on the on ramp and forgot what happens when u punch it sideways with rwd.