11/11/2012: 85 MPH OK'd on SH130 from Austin--->Seguin.

[tacticool]

Difference between fast and slow don't matter if people stay in the right lane when theyre not passing.

That would be ticketed more often if traffic enforcement was for highway safety instead of generating revenue.

[MegaWatt]

Difference between fast and slow don't matter if people stay in the right lane when theyre not passing.

That would be ticketed more often if traffic enforcement was for highway safety instead of generating revenue.

A couple legislative sessions ago I wrote to several state legislators trying to get the fine for driving in the passing lane raised to the same amount as going 15 MPH over the limit. I know the priority is generating revenue so I thought if the fine was the same maybe it would be incentive to start enforcing the law. All I got back was form letters.

[Rex B]

Read how they came up with speed limits for this project. Interesting

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/abo ... e=rss_news" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[surprise_i'm_armed]

Wow, that's an eye-opener as to how they set the speed limit, both with the lone TexDOT driver,
and the 125 driver version.

I had read previously that when traffic engineers are trying to set a speed limit on an established roadway
that already has traffic on it they:

* set up hidden radar guns tuned to a frequency which is outside of a radar detector's normal cop frequencies
(so as not to skew the results from drivers with detectors)

* they set the speed limit to what the 85th percentile of drivers observes.

But if the average speed was say, 64 MPH, they might round down to 60, instead of up to 65.

Roadways have "design" limits that indicate what the speed limit should be, but other factors count too.

SIA