[Land-speed] Faster towing!?

Glen Barrett speedtimer at beyondbb.com
Mon Feb 18 19:34:44 MST 2008


I guess we will have to slow down when we go thru Cedar City.
Glen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Van Scoy" <ed at vetteracing.com>
To: "Land-Speed List" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:17 PM
Subject: [Land-speed] Faster towing!?


> Utah Considers Joining 80 MPH Speed Limit Club
>
> 80MPH limit unveiled in Texas. Texas may lose the distinction of being the
> state with the highest legal speed limit in the US. With the blessing of 
> the
> Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), state Representative James A
> Dunnigan (R-Taylorsville) introduced legislation that would test the 
> effects
> of higher speed limits on a stretch of Interstate 15.
>
> The state House Business and Labor Committee unanimously approved 
> Dunnigan's
> bill on Wednesday.
>
> "The engineering studies that we conduct would determine what the 
> appropriate
> speed would be," a UDOT Government Affairs Director Linda Hull explained 
> on
> Wednesday. "Looking at it from the outside we think it might be eighty 
> miles
> per hour."
>
> The test would consider the 85th percentile speed -- the actual speed at 
> which
> the majority of traffic is moving in safety -- along with ten other 
> factors to
> determine whether to increase the I-15 limit from 75 MPH to 80 or more. 
> UDOT
> would report back on the safety effects of the change to legislators who 
> would
> determine whether limits could be raised elsewhere in the state.
>
> A similar bill that would have raised the speed limit to 80 MPH last year 
> was
> amended before becoming law. Instead of setting a top speed of 80, that 
> law
> mandates that all speed limits be set according to engineering studies.
> The same law also requires slower vehicles in the far left-hand lane to 
> yield
> when a faster vehicle approaches from behind. Texas officials approved an 
> 80
> MPH limit on I-10 and I-20 in 2006
>
> Ed Van Scoy
> #128 B/GT Corvette
> SCTA-BNI/Gear Grinder
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