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Title: 60mph speed limits on parts of HI 200 on Big Island
Post by: oscar on February 28, 2017, 09:43:10 PM

http://hidot.hawaii.gov/blog/2017/02/06/speed-limit-to-increase-from-55-mph-to-60-mph-on-portions-of-daniel-k-inouye-highway-saddle-road/

AFAIK, rhis is the first 60mph speed limit on a non-Interstate in Hawaii. It reflects how much safer the cross-island highway has become after most of it was rebuilt.

Title: Re: 60mph speed limits on parts of HI 200 on Big Island
Post by: Rothman on March 01, 2017, 08:40:09 AM

Quote from: oscar on February 28, 2017, 09:43:10 PM
http://hidot.hawaii.gov/blog/2017/02/06/speed-limit-to-increase-from-55-mph-to-60-mph-on-portions-of-daniel-k-inouye-highway-saddle-road/

AFAIK, rhis is the first 60mph speed limit on a non-Interstate in Hawaii. It reflects how much safer the cross-island highway has become after most of it was rebuilt.

Wasn't too long ago that some rental companies forbade you from driving Saddle Road.

Title: Re: 60mph speed limits on parts of HI 200 on Big Island
Post by: Alps on March 10, 2017, 05:53:11 PM

Wasn't too long ago that Hawaii was the last state stuck at 55 mph.

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