On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:49:17 -0400, Larry Harvilla
wrote:
>What both of you have just commented on here is the inherent non-safety
>of split car/truck speed limits. If trucks were allowed to go 70, or
>frankly even 65, you wouldn't have such a huge range between minimum and
>maximum actual speeds; trucks wouldn't take so long to complete passes,
>meaning you would have more freedom to pass in the left lane; and it is
>possible Caltrans could get away with delaying any kind of widening
>project for another few years. You would be surprised how big the effect
>of the split speed limits really is.
Trucks and cars can both go 75mph on Arizona freeways, and on
two-lane freeways that can be pretty scarey, too, especially when
the trucks seem to out-number the cars (on I-10).
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