Nevada did not have a limit for many years; 'don't know 'bout now.
Wilton
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From: "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Let's raise the speed limit to 85 in MT!
I thought Montana or somewhere like that did not have a speed limit but
then had to have one because they got sued or something
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On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:05 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
The thing that scares me about this is the fact that many folks do not
maintain their cars well. If one is going to run that fast, then it is
important to have a vehicle with decent tires and to maintain the brakes,
suspension etc.
It is amazing how often one sees vehicles on the streets that have
suffered broken ball joints etc. Some people will literally drive until
the wheels fall off.
Having said that, however, I will admit to travelling pretty fast
sometimes. We went to Grand Forks ND a week ago Saturday and on the way
back were sometimes running 90 mph. The road is so straight and smooth
and there is so little traffic that one must either set the cruise
control of pay pretty strict attention to the speedo. After a while, it
feels like one is just crawling along and then one discovers that one has
increased the speed from 75 mph to 90 mph.
I think I could pretty readily run that road at 100 mph when the pavement
was bare and this is in a pickup truck. Imagine what I could do with a
fast car
Randy
On 01/12/2014 2:42 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
If you cruise at 70 better watch your rear view mirror...
HELENA – Four state lawmakers are drafting bills for next year’s
legislative session that would raise the daytime speed limit on Montana
interstate highways from 75 to 80 and possibly as high as 85 mph.
State Rep. Mike Miller, R-Helmville, and state Rep.-elect Art Wittich,
R-Bozeman, both said Utah, Wyoming and Idaho all have raised their speed
limits above 75 and they haven’t seen any problem s as a result.
“I just think our roads are engineered well and technology is such we
can
drive those roads safely,” Wittich said.
Montanans want to be able to drive faster, he said, and should have the
freedom to do so.
Sens. Scott Sales, R-Bozeman, and Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, also
are
backing speed-limit bills.
Montana Highway Patrol Col. Tom Butler declined to comment on the bills
until he has a chance to see them, but he told the Missoulian that
driving
faster reduces reaction time and makes stopping more difficult.
“Our overall goal is to keep everyone in one piece and get them home
safe,”
Butler said. “Most crashes are a whole lot of little things that come
together and become one big thing.”
Windy Boy said he travels around the country to dance at Native American
powwows and has driven in states with 80 mph speed limits.
“As big a state as Montana is, for the most part, the traffic is pretty
sparse,” he said. “Once in a while it helps to get from Point A to Point
B
a little quicker.”
Sales said he spent seven months working in the Bakken oil patch,
driving
back and forth to Bozeman regularly.
“If I could drive 85 mph on the interstate, it would save an hour,”
Sales
said.
He said the speed limit in his bill is negotiable. “Eighty-five would be
fine with me,” he said.
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