New The Decades Long Battle Is Won, The Damn Speed Limits Are Going Upwards Inwards The Upwards Of Michigan! No To A Greater Extent Than 55! (Well, Inwards Nearly Places)
I was born together with raised inwards the Upper Penninsula (UP or yoop every bit nosotros ever telephone scream upwards it) together with I tin tell y'all that a dyad hours of driving at 55 mph sucks.
It sucks fifty-fifty to a greater extent than on the Seney Stretch (the most irksome route inwards the state) http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-seney-stretch as that is most 25 miles of perfectly engineered conduct route to no where, together with in that location ain't zilch unopen to exactly swamp together with trees.
Not fifty-fifty an intersecting road. But it has plenty of cops looking to ticket anyone going over the speed limit. 25 miles, at 55 mph. Boring!
Serious temptation for cruise command together with allow the steering grip it self piece RV drivers role the bathroom, or instruct hang out at the tabular array inwards dorsum for java time. You know it's happened, it was inwards the news.
Anyway, based on the actual speeds people crusade when non beingness stalked yesteryear the country highway police, together with the full lack of whatever argue to crusade then damn tardily when in that location is zilch unopen to for miles, the Michigan govt lastly had to heed to the onetime people that were immature together with getting their drivers licenses during the Vietnam War together with bring been pissed ever since most the 55 limit. Well they lastly got onetime plenty to instruct elected, together with the speed bound is going up
In places where at to the lowest degree 85% of the drivers were at 65mph, together with the engineers had ZERO argue to demand slower speeds (sharp curves, steep hills) that double nickle is OUTTA HERE!
900 miles of highway are getting a boost to 65, together with the interstate North of Saginaw is at i time 75 mph
Raised limits are happening "where speeds could increase based on 85th-percentile speeds (the speed at or below which 85 per centum of traffic is moving) together with the results of applied scientific discipline together with security studies."
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOT_MSP_Speed_Limit_Increases_559944_7.pdf
New speed limits volition live posted on those 3 routes yesteryear mid-May. MDOT likewise volition laid out installing sign overlays reflecting the novel 65 mph speed bound for trucks together with schoolhouse buses on country roadways amongst posted speed limits of 65 mph or greater. The novel maximum speed bound for trucks together with schoolhouse buses was some other alter prompted yesteryear Public Act 445.
http://pathsunwritten.com/2011/05/a-crossroads-in-seney/