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Virginia assembly approves 70 mph speed limit

By: William C. Flook, Examiner Staff Writer, February 3, 2010

The Virginia House and Senate moved Tuesday to raise the maximum interstate speed limit from 65 to 70 miles per hour, passing a measure backed by Gov. Bob McDonnell to speed traffic on wide-open stretches of highway.

The identical bills passed by wide margins in both chambers. Proponents argued the change would result in shorter travel times for motorists, with many roads already designed to safely handle greater speeds. Officials expect the higher limit — part of McDonnell's transportation plan — to apply to rural sections of interstates and not in the traffic-choked corridors of Northern Virginia. Each proposed increase would require a Virginia Department of Transportation engineering study before being put in place.

Critics said the change would hurt gas mileage, make roads more dangerous and do nothing to address Virginia's transportation funding crisis. Others took a wait-and-see approach. AAA Mid-Atlantic is "of two minds" on the legislation, said spokesman Lon Anderson. "We know people want to speed, speeding is popular, nobody wants to do 60, 65 if they can do 70," Anderson said. "That said, we have so many people on the road, and we have so many distractions on the road, the question becomes, Will higher speed limits translate into more fatalities and make the roads more dangerous?"

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Gov McDonnell is making changes already!  Let's hope this helps commuters and reduce some of the gridlock traffic; I doubt it.

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Well, if it doesn't work out, they can change it back. However, if you can go 65, most will go 70. Now that it's 70, will they go 75?

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Kb, I was thinking the same thing. In my experience, most tend to drive just a tad under +10 and if I drive slower, I get seriously honked at and sped-up-from-behind-and-cut-in-front-of, LOL, which happens often enough already!!

Virginia, especially the DC bedroom corridor suffers the worst traffic jams. If faster moving traffic results in people reaching workplace sooner and returning home sooner and avoiding some traffic jam, I am all for it. May be it will give a bit more incentive for people to leave 10 minutes sooner from home and return 10 minutes sooner from work.

-- Edited by Sanders on Wednesday 3rd of February 2010 05:29:02 PM

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