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oscar:
--- Quote from: GCrites80s on January 16, 2023, 08:54:00 PM ---WV is an aging state demographically and I wonder how many seniors it would force off the roads. WV isn't like Ohio and many other states where one can often take the U.S. or former U.S. route that parallels the interstate without adding hours and hours to the trip. 70 is manageable for many seniors but 80 is pushing it.
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It's a speed limit, not a target or minimum.
I drove across Montana on I-94 to I-90, in the "reasonable and prudent" era (no fixed daytime speed limit for cars). Little old ladies who were most comfortable with 65 mph did that, in the right lane, while I carefully passed them in the left lane. I think they're still doing that, after R&P limits were replaced with fixed limits (usually 80mph on the Interstates).
amroad17:
--- Quote from: Ted$8roadFan on January 16, 2023, 08:45:56 AM ---
--- Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on January 16, 2023, 01:09:28 AM ---https://www.lootpress.com/new-bill-would-increase-speed-limits-to-80-mph-on-interstates/
West Virginia must be crazy enough to raise the speed limits from 70 to 80 mph on interstate highways and four-lane limited access highways in the state. This is round 4! :pan:
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Can any interstate in WV handle an 80 mph speed limit?
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In reality, NO!!! The closest would be the section of I-64 from Barboursville to Hurricane and maybe the section of I-64 from the Morris Branch Road overpass in Lawn to Lewisburg. Both distances are around 20 miles--which is not even worth posting an 80 mph speed limit for that section.
70 mph is fine for the Interstates in West Virginia.
sprjus4:
^ I think 75 mph would be more reasonable in some areas.
SP Cook:
--- Quote from: GCrites80s on January 16, 2023, 08:54:00 PM ---WV is an aging state demographically and I wonder how many seniors it would force off the roads. WV isn't like Ohio and many other states where one can often take the U.S. or former U.S. route that parallels the interstate without adding hours and hours to the trip. 70 is manageable for many seniors but 80 is pushing it.
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"Things said about ending 55, then 65, but were dead wrong." ??
Actually, the only parts of the WV interstate system that should not be at least 80 are the mis-designed northern third of the Turnpike, a short urban section through Charleston and a yet shorter section through Wheeling. Corridors, which most also need a large amount of stop light removal, could almost all go to 70 or 75.
SP Cook:
https://wchstv.com/news/local/doh-closed-walkway-to-be-demolished-as-part-of-bridge-painting-project-in-charleston#
The enclosed walkways and staircases, which were built to allow foot traffic from the mostly poor neighborhood on the hillside down into the downtown which was being cut off by the interstate's construction, were rarely used for the intended purpose and became a haven for dope dealing, prostitution, and gang violence. The city, which really had no authority, just padlocked it in the mid-90s and nobody really objected.
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