Needs no more discussion of the question. :-D
Well that would be 55, would it not? Only interstates are allowed to have higher speed limits than that I believe.
I've seen pics with 70 signs on a Montana highway in the middle of nowhere.
The highest is 75 mph on some highways in west Texas. Here is a picture I took in 2006 on U.S. 62/U.S. 180 just south of the New Mexico state line:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.okroads.com%2F040506%2FDSC05712.JPG&hash=9bfe012aa3fc08f7679ed88d757547f25f87e174)
I've seen some 65s on some sections of U.S. highways in Arizona and Utah.
Wyoming puts a speed limit of 65 on essentially every rural paved road with a state highway signed, even ones that are barely two lanes wide and have no shoulders and are overgrown with giant potholes
Washington does 65 on certain well designed 2 lane roads like SR 26
Idaho is slightly more liberal then Washington but mainly reserves 65 for primary 2 lane roads
Oregon is a maximum of 55 on 2 lane roads, which is miserable when you're trying to get cross state (eg Boise to Eugene/Corvallis via US-20 is a long, flat, desolate drive with a 55 MPH speed limit). If you have Oregon plates you generally won't get pulled over as long as you keep it under 70 though.
Georgia's two lane roads are all posted as a maximum of 55 m.ph., although, on some, you can travel well beyond that.
Be well,
Bryant
FM roads that parallel interstates in Texas get the same speed as the interstate.
The highest posted limit on a rural 2-lane road in Pennsylvania is 55. It makes me laugh when I can drive a piece of road with homes and businesses along it with a limit of 55, but some sections of our expressway system are below that. However, in either case, no one goes the posted speed anyway.
un1 said:
FM roads that parallel interstates in Texas get the same speed as the interstate.
Bryant5493 says:
Wow! That's awesome. I'm making a trip to W. Texas one day, just to drive 80 m.p.h. on I-10 and I-20 and not have to watch my back, front and side. :-D
Be well,
Bryant
I think the highest speed in California for a two lane road is 65 MPH. :sombrero:
55 in WI. They have a law that says "55 unless posted - which includes interstates" (meaning, if not deliberately posted to 65, the limit is 55.)
Well they're all 55 here... err except for the really rural ones with no speed limit.
Quotefrom DTP: Well they're all 55 here... err except for the really rural ones with no speed limit.
I believe that the really rural roads are also 55 according to the DMV manual.
Missouri has some two lane US Routes at 65, including US 54 west of Lake of the Ozarks, most of US 63 between US 60 and Rolla, and then some parts of US 63 north of Rolla (which seems to be a bit high in spots). I believe parts of US 60 between Van Buren and Mountain View were posted at 65 before they were widened. Before the NMSL, two lane US Routes could have been posted at 70:
http://www.cosmos-monitor.com/mo/map1958/speed-law.html (http://www.cosmos-monitor.com/mo/map1958/speed-law.html)
Nebraska posts two lane roads generally at 60 east of a north-south line between Grand Island and Kearney, and 65 west of that line, with some exceptions. Whether a road is 60 or 65 seems to be extremely arbitrary, as there doesn't seem to be any noticeable differences along US 30 between the 60 and 65 sections near Gothenburg. I think more roads were at 65 pre-NMSL.
Kansas posts two lane roads at 65.
(Edited for spelling)
Although European freeway speed limits are generally higher than in the US (most European countries have a Vmax of 75 or 80 mph), generally European 2-lane road speed limits are lower. In the Netherlands, the speed limit outside city limits is 50 mph, and occasionaly 60 mph on some roads, however, many rural roads have a speed limit of just 40 mph, quite to my annoyance.
Germany has the highest speed limits in Europe, 80 or no speed limit at all on freeways, and 60 mph outside city limits unless otherwise posted. I love driving in Germany, the freedom of driving there is so great, though I usually stick to 75 - 80 mph on Autobahns so save my fuel consumption.
Most of the European Union is now under the Schengen treaty, which means a free movement of goods, capital and people. Hence, you can drive from Estonia to Portugal without having to stop at any border. It's basically the same as travelling from North Carolina into Virginia.
Texas speed limits are determined by the population density of the county the road is in (towns have their own jurisdiction). I believe the 80mph on interstates only applies to interstates, as I've yet to see any west texas two-lane road be signed at 80mph.
Although, in Texas, all commercial vehicles are restricted to a maximum of 70mph, regardless of the posted signage, and all vehicles are restricted to 65mph (unless posted lower) at night.
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74/171 & froggie:
I've heard that too... and know it's fact now, I just wonder now why they put a sign saying "End Speed Limit" instead of Speed Limit 55... and I assume that on some that are paved but might as well be gravel 55 would not be an appropriate speed on. ;-)
Two-lane U.S. highways in Nevada are generally signed at 70mph, except through small towns and where the terrain does not allow for it. Most of the major state highways that are two-lanes in rural areas (especially those in the central and eastern parts of the state) also are signed at 70mph--most other state routes are are signed at 65mph.
Georgia's proposed "Super Speeder" Law:
http://www.wsbtv.com/traffic/19017186/detail.html (http://www.wsbtv.com/traffic/19017186/detail.html)
Be well,
Bryant
Around 65 is the highest that I think I've seen.
US 90 in West Texas between Del Rio and the Big Bend is a 75-MPH stretch. That's is the highest I have seen.
on just about every 2-lane U.S highway in texas the speed limit is 70 mph
In NJ the highest you ever get on a 2-lane road is 55 mph and that's very rare. A couple in the Pinelands (70, 206, maybe a county route or two) and I think one other stretch of 206. Everything else is 50 or less.
As I've seen in many posts about other states, the state speed limit in NY is 55 unless otherwise posted. There is a speed limit of 65 on Interstates and other freeways, such as the Camillus Bypass (NY 5 near Syracuse). I don't know about western NY and Downstate though.
Some surface roads are hard to do only 55 on though. Around Auburn and Seneca Falls, there's NY 38, NY 34, NY 414 (south of I-90), NY 31, NY 38A, NY 5, and US 20. On NY 31, there's an area known locally as the Montezuma Flats, and people like to race through them. Here's (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.018015,-76.722078&spn=0,359.931335&z=14&layer=c&cbll=43.02055,-76.73037&panoid=K4wcw_XmNi62PhjxBZoa_g&cbp=12,287.2205189299375,,0,12.425000000000004) a Google Street View of the Montezuma Flats.
In Ontario the speed limit for most 2 lane roads in Southern Ontario is 80 (km/per hour). Where in Northern Ontario they are 90 (km per hour). Secondary highways are all at 80 except for one which really should be a primary (speed is 90).
Freeways are generally at 100 (in urban areas or dangerous areas the speed limit is lower).
WA: 45 mph
Recently in the news:
GRANDMA IN SALEM, OR GOES 103 MPH ON 2-LANE ROAD TO TEACH GRANDSON A LESSON
QuoteGRANDMA IN SALEM, OR GOES 103 MPH ON 2-LANE ROAD TO TEACH GRANDSON A LESSON
CG, do you have a link for that?
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090401/NEWS/904010466/1001 (http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090401/NEWS/904010466/1001) - StatesmanJournal
Highest I have seen is 55. Yes, I live in the northeast. 55 is rare around where I live.
Alaska allows 65 mph on its paper Interstates, including the ones that come nowhere near Interstate standards, so some of its better two-lanes roads get the 65mph limit.
Hawaii recently approved 60mph limits for part of two-lane HI 200 on the Big Island, which has in the past few years been improved from one of the state's most dangerous roads to one of the best. Hawaii, alas, won't post anything over 60mph even on its Interstates in the Honolulu area.
Texas has a lot of 75mph two-lanes, most prevalent in west Texas but I've seen them in south Texas as well.
Highest in Delaware is 55. Our highways however vary from 50-65.
Missouri uses a maximum speed of 60 on major state highways, on Missouri's secondary highways, the maximum is 55, except for M highway.
In Arkansas, All 2 lane rural highways are signed at 55 mph. "5 lane expressways" (rural sections) have a 60 mph limit. 4 lane rural divided highways are signed at 65 mph. Rural controlled access highways are signed at 70 mph (whether US, State, or Interstate).
I wish AHTD would bump their limits up some. I say, take a page from TXDOT.
2 lane highways: 60-65-70. 60 for curvy roads with limited ROW. 65 for wider open ROW. 70 for straighter 2 lane roads (commonly found in the eastern part of the state.)
4 lane divided highways: 65 to 70 depending on road density.
Rural controlled access highways: 75; 70 for hilly / curvy sections. 65 for urban sections.
5 lane highways: 70; 65 in curvy-hilly areas.
I drove a 75 MPH 2-lane road in Texas in 2015 and honestly I felt it was unnerving and don't really want to do so again, or at least not at night.
The UK has some with 70mph limits that aren't long enough to hold 70mph for more than a second or two as the motorway speed limit doesn't specify standards.
Isle of Man has no top speed limit, though there are lower speed limits (20mph, 30mph, 40mph, 50mph). I would say that the islands roads aren't overly suitable for going flat out due to the island's rural areas being fairly hilly and the roads curvy, but I gather average joes regularly drive at high speeds - and not just the 200mph-topping TT racers.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on April 22, 2017, 03:59:21 PM
I drove a 75 MPH 2-lane road in Texas in 2015 and honestly I felt it was unnerving and don't really want to do so again, or at least not at night.
It depends on the situation in Pa where part of the Highway is 70Mph it goes through mountains & a woods but around the curves where you're "supposed to go 60" it can be pretty scary next to a semi truck that is going 80 around a curve at night.
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At some point in the past, there were apparently two-lane roads in Australia's Northern Territory with no speed limit. They now have speed limits, but I believe there may be at least one posted at 130 km/h (81 mph).
The highest I've seen is 100 kph on Autoroute 955. Being from the northeast, the only place I've seen limits above 55 on non-freeways are certain sections of Québec autoroutes and Corridor L.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on April 22, 2017, 03:59:21 PM
I drove a 75 MPH 2-lane road in Texas in 2015 and honestly I felt it was unnerving and don't really want to do so again, or at least not at night.
U.S. 62/180 east of El Paso is kind of a wild ride any time of the day but especially at night. The lanes are kind of wide along with the shoulders, surprisingly I thought the design was decent. U.S. 90 east of Van Horn is similar with 75 MPH speed limits.
Highest I've ever physically driven on is 55mph, in NY (NY 22) and MA (US 7 and MA 8). CT can, by statute, also go up to 55 on non-limited-access roads but chooses not to do it. There are stretches of US 6 in Tolland/Windham Counties that could probably go there but don't probably because of local opposition, for example.
I'm surprised TheHighwayMan394 hasn't mentioned the multitude of 2-lane highways MnDOT has, in the last ~two years or so, raised the speed limit to 60 (from 55) on in rural Minnesota.
US 95 in Oregon, which I believe is a 2-lane road, had its speed limit increased to 70 mph from 55 mph I believe. The increase happened last year in March. Oregon's default statutory limit for rural roads is 55 mph (65 mph on interstate highways).
QuoteI'm surprised TheHighwayMan394 hasn't mentioned the multitude of 2-lane highways MnDOT has, in the last ~two years or so, raised the speed limit to 60 (from 55) on in rural Minnesota.
Probably because this thread was necro'd so far back everyone forgot about it, until the new kid came along...
Quote from: froggie on April 23, 2017, 02:14:58 PM
QuoteI'm surprised TheHighwayMan394 hasn't mentioned the multitude of 2-lane highways MnDOT has, in the last ~two years or so, raised the speed limit to 60 (from 55) on in rural Minnesota.
Probably because this thread was necro'd so far back everyone forgot about it, until the new kid came along...
2 New kids thank you.
Quote from: ColossalBlocks on April 22, 2017, 01:10:47 PM
Missouri uses a maximum speed of 60 on major state highways, on Missouri's secondary highways, the maximum is 55, except for M highway.
False. Missouri posts up to 65 mph on its state highways.
Case in point. (https://goo.gl/maps/4GjvV37yihH2)
Quote from: Ace10 on April 23, 2017, 05:02:34 AM
US 95 in Oregon, which I believe is a 2-lane road, had its speed limit increased to 70 mph from 55 mph I believe. The increase happened last year in March. Oregon's default statutory limit for rural roads is 55 mph (65 mph on interstate highways).
True. Several other highways (including large sections of US-20, US-395, US-97) had their limits increased from 55 to 65 as well. Over in Idaho, some state highways have been increased from 65 to 70 now too very recently. US-95 north of Coeur D Alene is one (though that stretch is 4 lane freeway). I believe parts of US-20, including both a 2 lane stretch and a 4 lane freeway stretch, have been increased from 65 to 70 in Idaho, though I have not confirmed it myself. These states were mentioned (with different numbers) by Corco earlier in the thread, but, uh, it's not 2009 anymore!
But for a short amount of time, the highest 2 lane speed limit in Oregon was higher than the highest 2 lane speed limit in Idaho. That's crazy and backwards :P
As far as back roads go, a lot on Maryland's Eastern Shore are posted at 40.
Quote from: kphoger on April 24, 2017, 01:29:20 PM
Quote from: ColossalBlocks on April 22, 2017, 01:10:47 PM
Missouri uses a maximum speed of 60 on major state highways, on Missouri's secondary highways, the maximum is 55, except for M highway.
False. Missouri posts up to 65 mph on its state highways. Case in point. (https://goo.gl/maps/4GjvV37yihH2)
There's also at least a stretch at 65 for US60 in Neosho.
Quote from: intelati49 on April 27, 2017, 03:08:47 PM
Quote from: kphoger on April 24, 2017, 01:29:20 PM
Quote from: ColossalBlocks on April 22, 2017, 01:10:47 PM
Missouri uses a maximum speed of 60 on major state highways, on Missouri's secondary highways, the maximum is 55, except for M highway.
False. Missouri posts up to 65 mph on its state highways. Case in point. (https://goo.gl/maps/4GjvV37yihH2)
There's also at least a stretch at 65 for US60 in Neosho.
Oh, it's certainly not the only two-lane highway in Missouri with a 65-mph limit. I've also seen it posted on US-54 east of MO-73. But I only mentioned MO-96 in case the phrase "state highways" was meant to exclude US highways.
Come to think of it, though, that wouldn't make sense anyway, because MO-13 is posted at 65 mph between Springfield and Clinton, while MO-7 is even posted at 70 mph between there and Harrisonville. I realize those two highways are four lanes divided, but so is the M Highway I'm assuming he was referring to (the Jefferson County one). It's just plain wrong, no matter how you read it.
I'm pretty sure that the maximum in NJ is 50, though Speed Limit signs on the 2-mile stretch of NJ 73 south of the Atlantic City Expressway (where it narrows from 4 lanes to 2) to Folsom are conspicuously absent. Going south there is no indication of a decrease in speed from that last Speed Limit 55 sign, while going north the last sign is Speed Limit 40, which Folsom is peppered with.
Minnesota has apparently been studying the possibility of increasing some of its highways from 55 mph, and two in particular have already been raised to 60 mph. However, I should note that the 2-lane freeway portion of US-12 (https://goo.gl/maps/JF4YQkH898G2) west of Wayzata has been 60 mph ever since it was built.
The Mackenzie Highway in northern Alberta has some 110 km sections, 68 mph for the SI challenged.
Quote from: kkt on April 27, 2017, 07:33:04 PM
The Mackenzie Highway in northern Alberta has some 110 km sections, 68 mph for the SI challenged.
But some equally boring roads in the territories top out at 90km/h or in NT 100 km/h.
The James Bay highway in northern Quebec is largely at 100km/h, which might be the only two-lane non-Autoroute in Quebec with that limit. It might help that it's locally- rather than provincially-maintained, and the locals know how long it takes to travel between the few communities in their region.
A whole slew of Michigan two-laners will get boosted to 65 (from 55) in the next few months. Most of those were 65 prior to NMSL
Quote from: bzakharin on April 27, 2017, 05:16:41 PM
I'm pretty sure that the maximum in NJ is 50, though Speed Limit signs on the 2-mile stretch of NJ 73 south of the Atlantic City Expressway (where it narrows from 4 lanes to 2) to Folsom are conspicuously absent. Going south there is no indication of a decrease in speed from that last Speed Limit 55 sign, while going north the last sign is Speed Limit 40, which Folsom is peppered with.
NJ is 50 mph maximum on 2 lane roadsgenerally but a few have 55mph. I know route 72 in Burlington and Ocean Counties is posted at 55. And CR 539 in Ocean County has 55mph posted
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Wyoming raised a lot of 2-lane roads to 70 mph recently; other Mountain West states have 70 mph 2-lanes.