Oregon

[stevashe]

It is in tons of cities have road sign with those speed limits Oklahoma and Dallas. It works just fine. It's completely acceptable.

Just because something exists, doesn't mean it's acceptable (!)

To be clear, there's two options here. Either properly design the road to support 45 to 55 mph by removing or eliminating driveways and coordinating the traffic signals so you actually gain time savings from the increased speed (example: St Rose parkway in Las Vegas), or design the road for a slower speed with a matching speed limit.

There are way too many roads in America that are poorly/lazily designed with the same cut and paste layout and no access control and that is a big reason why we have more serious crashes than some other countries.

[Bickendan]

As a local, I absolutely do not think McGloughlin between SE Park and I-205 should be 45. At most, it should be 40, and I'm happy with 35.

Most of this is pure ODOT -- this portion of McGloughlin is largely unincorporated Clackamas County, with it being the cities of Gladstone and Oregon City south of Gloucester.