Speed limit 60?

[fwydriver405]

Speaking of 100 km/h... here's this posted example on I-87 South in Champlain, NY after the Exit 43 SB on-ramp, not sure if this is still posted as of the writing of this post (GSV is from Nov 2021).

I think this used to be posted at 105 km/h. It was co-signed with the 65 MPH limit, which 87 still is after US Customs. Not sure when these were replaced with 100 km/h signs.

[epzik8]

Speaking of 100 km/h... here's this posted example on I-87 South in Champlain, NY after the Exit 43 SB on-ramp, not sure if this is still posted as of the writing of this post (GSV is from Nov 2021).

I think this used to be posted at 105 km/h. It was co-signed with the 65 MPH limit, which 87 still is after US Customs. Not sure when these were replaced with 100 km/h signs.

Nice of us to let Canada post a pair of their highway signs there

[vdeane]

Speaking of 100 km/h... here's this posted example on I-87 South in Champlain, NY after the Exit 43 SB on-ramp, not sure if this is still posted as of the writing of this post (GSV is from Nov 2021).

I think this used to be posted at 105 km/h. It was co-signed with the 65 MPH limit, which 87 still is after US Customs. Not sure when these were replaced with 100 km/h signs.

Nice of us to let Canada post a pair of their highway signs there

Canadian speed limit signs say "maximum" instead and don't have that circle.  Those signs are 2003 MUTCD metric speed limit signs.

[1995hoo]

100 km/h (which is 62 mph) is the default speed limit for freeways in Québec. On the other hand, 60 km/h is a rare speed limit, or at least I see way less roads limited at 60 km/h compared to 50 or 70 km/h.

You don't say...!

In Québec, 60 km/h is a fairly uncommon speed limit, as the limit will usually be 50 or 70 km/h. As for 60 mph (100 km/h), only freeways go that fast, and some urban freeways go even lower.

God dammit. I knew I had to have said it at one point.

Heh, I'm certain I've done the same thing at some point in some other thread. Very easy to do that when a thread gets bumped after several years of inactivity (as here).

That's why I used the smiley.

[JCinSummerfield]

60 is a very common speed limit in Missouri, at least in the St Louis area, where pretty much all the freeways through the suburbs use it.

In Ohio, they're mostly on rural 4 lanes in the southern part of the state, with OH 32 as a prime example using it as a speed limit.

In Toledo, I-280 is 60 mph on the northern end, over the Glass City Skyway & coming into I-75.

[bzakharin]

Relatively shortly after the NMSL was repealed, and the speed limits in my home state of NJ went up to 65, I traveled to Seattle (by air) and the speed limits there seemed to all be 60 (I don't know if I'm misremembering, but I am pretty sure that was as high as it went). That was the first and only 60 speed limit I encountered for quite a while. I think more recently I saw them in Ohio and/or Indiana.

[cl94]

Ah yes, the elusive 60 MPH speed limit.

In my experience, most of California's state highway examples are in Inyo and Mono Counties, where 60 is used within Death Valley and on a handful of other state routes. District 9 is far more willing to post speed limits above 55 than other Caltrans districts. But yeah, random local roads in Fresno County also come to mind.

Nevada, 60 is rare, but again, not unheard of. 55 and 65 are far more common, with 65-70 being the standard rural limit. West shore of Walker Lake, part of US 95A, and US 50 west of Fallon immediately come to mind as locations posted at 60. Of note is that limits of 60+ have a 5-10 MPH "slap on the wrist" tolerance, where within that threshold is a token fine and no points. No such official tolerance exists for limits of 55 and below, which may explain some of the reluctance to post 60. With the exception of CC 215, I have never seen a county or local road posted at above 55 MPH in Nevada, so the speed limit map covers just about everything with a 60+ limit apart from freeways (which are all 65+).

[michiganguy123]

I'm sure this is one of the only 60mph speed limits in the entire state of Michigan
Surprised they didn't just do 55mph for this very small community of Wolf Lake, Michigan on M-37 (down from 65mph)
Still plenty of roads to be increased to 65mph, will probably never happen again

[freebrickproductions]

ALDOT occasionally posts a speed limit of 60 I've noticed, usually in a spot where 65 or 70 wouldn't work (such as AL 20 between I-65 and US 31 or the east end of I-565).

[triplemultiplex]

I see 60 mph in construction zones where the SL is normally 70.
Typically it's in places where they've shifted and narrowed the lanes in some manner such that concrete barriers separate traffic from the workers.

All the work zones during the 6 lane expansion on I-39/90, for example.

[fwydriver405]

In Massachusetts, MA 3 south of Boston has a 60 mph speed limit.

The only one in MA is the aforementioned MA 3.

There is actually a second 60 MPH zone in Massachusetts on MA Route 24 northbound for a short stretch from a very short, left merge from Highland Ave and MA Route 79 ramps to just after the Exit 8 northbound on-ramp. It looks like this limit was put in place between 2018 and 2021, based on GSV history.