[David]

I was discussing this with a coworker today. Near a school by his house out in the country, they lowered the speed limit from 50 mph to 35 mph because a challenged kid wearing all black riding his bike school at 5am was hit and killed. My coworker got pulled over for new lower speed. After a short conversation with the cop, the cop let him go with not ticket. Doesn't sound like the cop was fan of the new speed either.

This next part I really should type in ALL CAPS but I'll refrain: They have started putting medians on Houston streets that don't have medians now and really don't have room for medians because they say it's safer for pedestrians! How about the car wrecks now from people making U-turns since there are no longer proper turn lanes at every business! Not to mention narrower lane and no escape route if someone enters your lane.

I have an ongoing public record request with Texas DOT to determine if they actually called out lane widths on their drawings. I doubt they did since many lanes are barely 9.5' wide now.