Texas to open fastest US highway with 85 mph limit
 

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas will soon open a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the country. The Texas Transportation Commission has approved the 85 mph speed limit for a 41-mile-long toll road near the increasingly crowded Interstate 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio. The road runs several miles east of the interstate between two of the state's largest metropolitan areas. ...

There still will be a Prius on the far left camping out.....

I thought Montana had "Reasonable and Prudent" ?

Sounds faster than 85 ;)

whooohoooo!

Anyone who has ever driven across the I-10 corridor from San Antonio through West TX will sincerely appreciate this. I made the journey from Baton Rouge, LA to Bisbee, AZ two years ago to help a friend drag a '65 Dodge TownWagon Powerwagon home. It's an absolutely miserable drive West of San Antonio. Anything that shaves an hour or two off of this is a good start, IMHO.

God bless Texas. That could be easily done with a LOT of midwestern Interstates. Pretty much every one in KS is straight and flat, only moderately traveled, and with minimal exits. Even 75 feels slow.

No, they got rid of that many years ago.

This is a new road and will be designed for 85. About 30-40 miles west of San Antonio, I-10 is already 80 mph. I'm just glad they upped the limit from Houston to San Antonio to 75.

HA! :D

Yeah, if it's on any of the road in or out of Austin, you can count on it.

yea and we all wear cowboy hats and own horses..... :rolleyes:

That's not true? Because everybody in KS lives on a farm, owns cattle, and sees tornadoes regularly.:cool:

Montanabahn is gone, but they still leave you alone up to 83-84... beyond that my luck runs out.

Yes, the hipsters of Austin going for ironic. :cool:

Man, I was excited when the OH Turnpike raised the limit to 70mph... Another 15mph would be nice!

Even the locals can't figure out what the hipsters are trying to do here!!!

really? I was being good through the whole state this summer and set cruise at 75.

Thats why we put big bumpers on our pickup trucks... to punt these POS's out of the way.

Only from 1995 to 1999 then it was ramped back.

80 seems to be the ''new'' average speed in a lot of areas out East...

that makes sense, a girl I was dating back in '96 was out there and took a picture of the sign... I wish I could find it.

Ba... ba... but how are they going to get the Texans to slow down to 85?

I have relatives there.

NV375 had a sign when you got on it off US6 headed east "Speed limit ends".

Getting through Texas fast seems like a no brainer. ;)

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Thats what they do in Germany. You are under a limit unless you see this sign, then you are not limited.

Joe

Why have a speed limit at all. "Socialist" Germany does not.

PO..if you don't know..
STFU...
and quit typing ..

Rika

The Montana prudent laws have been gone for at least 20 years. I don't dare go more than 74 in a 70 or there WILL be a ticket. I did get one at night a few years ago.... 77 in a 65. That one cost me $20.

Care to explain?

There are speed limits on most highways in Germany and on all smaller roads. And they are reasonable and rigidly enforced.

No speed limits on most freeways.

Whatever you say.

Looks like this will be the closest highway to the Circuit of the Americas for the USGP in November.

Plus, it will make for a quicker route from Austin to Lockhart for a Kreuz Market brisket run.

Double bonus.



Tim

Wish you would listen. Both Rick and I have lived there for many years and there are speed limits on the Autobahn's. Yes there are some sections that are "unlimited" but if you are caught going over 130 klicks they watch you closely and if you have an accident going over this speed, you will get a ticket.

Its not like it was 20 years ago.

Now, two of us have chimed in on this thread who lived in Germany and know the truth. I assume that you will disregard and keep blindly posting that there is no speed limit there...

Even on the roads where there's normally no speed limit, there's either construction or traffic to slow you down. And don't forget the ubiquitous cameras and changing speed limits according to time of day. It's pretty rare to see cars really letting loose for more than a few kms at a stretch. Many times, even recently, while I was doing 160 km/h I've been passed by cars so fast, it was like I was stopped. But that doesn't go on for more than a very short distance before the Stau starts and brake and hazzard lights come on. The best roads are in eastern Germany because they're relatively new and uncrowded. In the rest of Germany, you can forget it. It ain't like it used to be at all.

This 85 MPH road is going to be a toll road as I believe, no?

Haben sie schon einmal in Deutschland?? Sie sollten STFU als erste empfohlen.

Some spoilsport got a ticket for doing 100mph in a downpour, and argued he was still being reasonable and prudent and shouldn't have been ticketed (the troopers worked with the understanding that if the conditions called for headlights, you dropped down to the night-time limits). Courts came back and said if the state didn't post a day-time limit they couldn't ticket someone for being an idiot, so they re-instated the posted limits.

Ahh, believe that this had little to do with the reversion back to the old speed limit. I lived in Helena Montana while this was going on and remember it well.

The Montana supreme court ruled the speed increase illegal and reverted it back to where it was. This was backed up by the Fed cutting off hiway funds in 1995. The combination of the two doomed the speed increase in Montana.

It's not that bad Rick. Actually every car guy in Germany has a half-dozen favourite stretches of autobahn near their house where they regularly go to play with their toys. Many in west Germany too. I regularly do the run from Hamburg to Berlin with my foot to the floor. Very fast road. Stuttgart to Basel also is a hell of a fast stretch except in peak hours. Etc etc. There are still many fast roads.

Sundays are great days for exploring the autobahns as there is no lorry traffic.

Hamburg to Berlin is plenty of former DDR territory. And those roads were always well maintained anyway. Yes, Sundays are good for fast driving. The fastest I ever went (as a passenger) was about 330 km/h in a Ruf RGT and it was on a back country road. Geezus.