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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
They will lose Federal highway money. The Feds have set the cap for what is allowed for the state highways if you want to received Fed funds. So it will be interesting to see if they give up the money.
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The Federal mandated speed limit was first raised to 65MPH back in the mid-1990s and then later totally repealed. States can set speed limits to whatever they want - Montana, for a time, had no set maximum speed limit on some highways.
Speed limits of 70 and 75 are common on many interstates, so 80 and 85 isn't much of a stretch.
However, if any state tries widely implementing a 90 MPH limit, there will very likely be much public pushback. Even many lead-foots will likely question the safety of that speed; pushes the engineering envelope, since interstate highways, even the best ones with gradual curves, wide lanes, and excellent sight-lines, won't safely handle 90 MPH traffic.
Texas 85 MPH limit likely marks the end of increases, since 85 MPH is probably the highest
posted speed limits will go anywhere in the U.S.
Ron