Bill passes with wide support
The Maryland General Assembly passed a bill allowing some highways to increase the speed limit to 70 mph. It is possible to balance safety with speed limit .
From the fiscal note: According to the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), the eighty-fifth percentile speed is the speed at or below which 85% of motorists drive on a given road when unaffected by slower traffic or poor weather. MDOT considers the use of the eighty-fifth percentile speed a good guideline for setting the appropriate speed limit for a road. MDOT has advised that research indicates that the posted speed limit has little effect on the speeds at which most motorists drive. Thus, raising the speed limit, if done in accordance with traffic and engineering studies and in consideration of the eighty-fifth percentile guidelines, is unlikely to increase the number of crashes on a road.
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16 comments:
It will decrease the state's income..
Good.
Good so everyone can drive 80.
Auto accident deaths open up employment for others to take those places. This is good for Maryland's young graduates.
About time...hopefully this happens on the Shore. No reason to drive 55mph through a barren area.
Wait a minute.
The government ADMITS that the speed limit they put in place 40 years ago, when the world only had about 10 years of oil left (they fell for that and made YOU pony up) was artificially low? And the citizens they "represent" would not pay attention to a law limiting speed to 55MPH, when the road was ENGINEERED for 70-80 MPH?? How many of you have seen the Governor's armed convoy blow past you at 85MPH? Ahhhh...the "two sets of laws" thing again. My bad.
BUT your "representatives" knew that the money generated would be HUGE, so they "represented" you by siccing the State's armed agents on "we, the people" for the shakedown.
Now, in order to keep the cash flowing, those same armed agents are claiming that "talking to your passengers" and "tuning your radio" is borderline terrorism and MUST BE STOPPED!
Get ready for constant military style police "campaigns" against all you dangerous citizens.
I have a feeling that a few more black people are getting shot.
Your "representatives", huh?
LOL.
Keep cheering.
Awesome how about route Fifty.
Lots of positives!!
Good, because folks go that fast anyway on Riverside drive...
Maybe you should find a new place to run 12:09, the winding road with lots of blind curves and no shoulders probably isn't the best choice. Plus its really hard to see you with my Big Mac and large soda all up in my face :)
Jog in place lol.
Hammer Down! I'll get to work 90 seconds faster now.
I've gotten in the habit that whenever a marked or unmarked police car going 70, 80 plus mph with no flashing lights / or sirens passes me, I speed up, keeping up with them. I figure it must be okay if their doing it, I can too.
I'm still going 60.....I'd prefer to leave this life due to "natural" causes sometime a little later in the future. All you speeders feel free to pass me.
11:52 If you don't have any driving ability maybe you shouldn't be driving.
No one has a problem with you doing 60, you holier than thou lawbreaker (how many of the other laws do you break and then piously condemn others who break them?).
It's when you pull into the left lane in Dover and stay there until you get to Onancock without EVER looking at the traffic passing you ON THE RIGHT or wondering WHY. And try noticing the line of traffic behind your "I'm just going to do 60" ace. Of course, that would require that you look in your rear view mirror and see what a PROBLEM you are...
Ahhhh... looking in the rearview and staying to the right.
A lost art.
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