Why aren't there two speed limits on highways ( day/night) ?

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In particular more rural highways ( like 2 lanes each way, that lack lighting, and are less traveled). Route 9 in CT as an example, but few would know this road, but every state has roads like it.

Route 9 is posted at 65 mph, it's freshly repaved, lightly travelled, unlit, kind of in deer country.

This road should be like 90 MPH during the day, and 65 at night ! It's way worse at night, I once hit a shovel at night on this highway, came close to hitting a Christmas tree the other day, that fell off of somebody's truck, ( that would have fucked up a Honda)....of course every cop just drives by it, without tossing it out of the way ( was nearly in the travel lane ) . If I stopped as a good Sam to toss it over the guardrail, I'd probably get accused of losing the load. general road debris. Deer are a hazard too, but that's all at night.

Day and night driving conditions are not equal, speed limits shouldn't be either !

If anything make if 55 at night and 90 during the day !
 

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I know in Texas and here in Florida that many state and U.S highways have SpeedLimit signs that designate a lower pace for night hours.

I agree with you that in many places it's a very sensible policy.
 

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The posted speed limit is only for ideal conditions. Just as you can be given a citation for driving the posted speed limit in a snow storm, the speed limit is lower when visibility is reduced
 

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Like Barman stated above,I have seen this too in some areas of the country like in Texas.
 

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Didn't Montana ( I think it was) once have no daytime speed limit ?

Speed limits are way too low in general. I don't think I've ever seen a road where I thought the speed limit was too high !

We aren't driving 1975 Chrysler's anymore, most highways were built more like in the 50's.

Speed limits are more of a revenue source ( tax) than a safety issue. Within city borders, they are more reasonable, but 90 is pretty reasonable on a lot of rural highways during daylight.


Even 120 mph in some places is reasonable, with a proper car.
 

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Texas has it and if I have explain why you should slow down at night you shouldn't have a DL in the 1st place.
 

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Speed limits are more of a revenue source ( tax) than a safety issue

People here love to bring up this issue every few weeks. I say great. It's a tax you don't have to pay with virtually zero hardship. Imagine if income tax was subject to the same opt-out possibility. For me it would be like an 18% raise. If local governments didn't have this revenue source what would gas tax have to be to make up for it?

Funny thing is that driving 90 instead of 75 saves a few seconds on a trip. Mostly all of us would have to work longer than that to make up for the money lost in wasted (and if that isn't true your income tax is closer to 40%)
 

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I re-read that recently in an old ( years old) Playboy magazine that got re-assigned for toilet side reading, before being tossed. They put a few of these towns out of business ( disbanded their gov't ).
 

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Any references for that 90% figure?


Not the precise link I had in mind, but it gives you the idea of running your BS town on almost just speeding tickets....

http://money.cnn.com/2002/05/22/news/q_speed_cost/

Indeed, for many towns, traffic tickets provide a substantial source of their revenue. The town of Waldo, Fla., for example, home of a notorious speeding trap on Route 301 between Tampa and Jacksonville, gets nearly 33.5 percent of its income from traffic tickets, according to Shir Lee Cox, a division manager for the American Automobile Association in Miami. The town of Lawtey, Fla., earns nearly 68.2 percent through traffic fines. As a result, AAA recommends its members use other routes.

Summersville, W.Va., is another danger zone for leadfoots. The town, with a population of 3,200, gave out 18,000 speeding tickets last year. Each year, it gets thousands of visitors to Summersville Lake, the largest in the state, as well as tractor-trailers and other traffic heading north or south on Route 19, which slices through town.
 

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