Posted on 09/30/2011 11:13:15 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
AUGUSTA, Maine — If you drive along Interstate 95 in the nation's far northeastern corner, "it's trees, trees, trees" for mile after mile, says one motorist. So why not set the cruise control on 75 mph?
That's what a lot of drivers have been doing for years, but now it's legal on one lonesome stretch, making Maine the only state east of the Mississippi River where drivers aren't breaking the law by driving 75 mph.
The new law authorizing the higher limit went on the books Wednesday, though it actually takes effect when new signs replace the old 65 mph ones next Tuesday.
Keep your grubby hands off my automobile, mothertruckers!
Eight over and the SP won’t pay attention!
People are leaving Illinois faster than that!!!!!
Is that 10% rule most jurisdictions nationwide, or just Maine?
Pretty much nationwide...YMMV.
“And there’s a tombstone every mile...”
Up in the northern Maine woods, yep. LONG stretches of boring road through the pines.
‘Cept at night. Moose you know.
Hard on the grillwork. (and the windshield, the roof, the face, the spine...)
I had 75 mph limits all through Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska on my trip from Seattle to Georgia in June. It was wonderful.
Heheheh...85MPH posted limit west of Junction, TX on IH10. Same heading out to Big Bend.
I love Texas.
Colonel, USAFR
The law of survival requires you drive 75 on the Washington Beltway.
Any slower than that and you are impeding traffic and asking to get killed.
Just be sure your speedo is calibrated. I tend to put along at the limit or +5. I happen to drive on a popular route for getting to the local Indian casinos, and see johnny law pretty often.
Interstate 10 from mile marker 61 to 494 is 85 in Texas..
One word: MOOSE.....
One of the loneliest sections of interstate in the country; but if you hit a moose at that speed; your remains will be sopped up with blotter paper...
—Is that 10% rule most jurisdictions nationwide, or just Maine?—
In some states you can get away with ten over, even in 35mph zones. In others, one over will get you a ticket. In Indiana, a ticket for 15 over is exactly the same as a ticket for one over. And I passed a radar cop in North Dakota while doing ten over and he did nothing. On the exact same stretch of I-95 a year later I got stopped for doing six over.
My impression is that the southeastern “good ol’ boy” areas are notorious for ticketing at 66 in a 65.
A moose once bit my sister at 75mph. High speed moose bites are especially nasty.
We have 75mph on many of the Colorado interstates, !-25 for instance both north and south of Denver...it’s pretty nice except for all the ‘medicinal marijuana’ users...LOL
When they have an accident it’s not nice...
Don’t you mean I-94?
—Don’t you mean I-94?—
Yes I do. 8-p
For anyone who has not seen this video of a Maine State Trooper ticketing a speeding Mainer - you need to. Its so darned funny you'll fall out of your chair.
And for all the FReepers from the South, Midwest and anywhere else but New England - unless you've been to Maine you have never heard an accent like this one. Its about as spot on Maine as it gets.
Jeysum Crow!
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