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To: Fiji Hill

Partially correct:

“the April 2, 1987, Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act, Congress permitted states to raise speed limits to 65 mph (105 km/h) on rural Interstate highways”


32 posted on 01/07/2014 9:32:44 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: nascarnation
the April 2, 1987, Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act, Congress permitted states to raise speed limits to 65 mph (105 km/h) on rural Interstate highways

Reagan vetoed that bill because it contained a boatload of pork, but his veto was overridden.

35 posted on 01/07/2014 9:36:12 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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