I’m not responsible for the ignorance of that grand jury. As for “defacto” speed limits, come to CA and do 80 in a 55 and see if the CA HWY Patrol doesn’t introduce themselves to you. With regards to the “essence” of transportation, it is not “speed” that creates a good transportation system. Just ask those in the trucking industry. They don’t make any more money getting there quicker than they do getting there safer. And speed limits are not imposed as simple revenue rasing tactics. Try stopping your vehicle at 80 mph to avoid debris or some other incident in the roadway, and then try stopping at that posted 55 mph and see which one is safer.
By your measure, we’d be safer still at 25 mph. Why not that?
This is Maryland. Speed limits are not particularly correlated with safety-related factors, but rather with revenue-generation opportunities.
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Sure, there’s some truth in that.
What about situations (I saw them in my old state of Ohio) where just by virtue of statute, that a state route, with a speed limit of 55 on one side of the street, has a speed limit of 35 on the other side of the street simply because that side of the street is in the city limits of a municipality?
You can’t tell me that one side of the street is safe at 55 but the other side of the same street is only safe at 35...