The Indy Star has an article entitled Bill would raise state speed limit. It comments on SB 217 which would raise the speed limit on Interstates from 65-70 and from 60 to 65 for trucks. My prior post on the subject.
The article suggests that the bill has more momentum than in years past. Apparently it passed the House in 2002 51-46 but didn’t get a hearing in the Senate. This year it will get a hearing in the Senate. Apparently police and insurance interests are the main opponents. Lots of ordinary citizens, yours truly included, would like to drive faster on the open highway.
I’m a little confused by this sentence in the article: “The bill doesn’t specify what types of vehicles or which locations would be affected.” Actually, it does. The bill states:
A person may not drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed in excess of the following maximum limits:
(1) Thirty (30) miles per hour in an urban district.
(2) Fifty-five (55) miles per hour, except as provided in subdivisions (1), (3), and (4).
(3) Seventy (70) miles per hour on a highway on the national system of interstate and defense highways located outside of an urbanized area (as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty thousand (50,000), except as provided in subdivision (4).
(4) Sixty-five (65) miles per hour for a vehicle (other than a bus) having a declared gross weight greater than twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds on a highway on the national system of interstate and defense highways located outside an urbanized area (as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least fifty thousand (50,000).
(5) Fifteen (15) miles per hour in an alley.
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