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No Speed Limits? California Considering “Unlimited” Lanes on Two Highways
If passed, the lanes would be added to I-5 and California Route 99.
By: Erik Johnson February 19, 2019 AUTOMOBILE
California state senator John Moorlach (R-Orange County) has introduced a bill to that state’s legislature that would add lanes to both north- and southbound Interstate 5 and State Route 99 that would have no posted speed limit.
SB319 does not itself state the specific stretches of road where the lanes would be added, but local reports indicate the lanes would run from Stockton to Bakersfield, a distance of approximately 240 miles via I-5 or 230 miles via CA-99.
The lanes would not have any speed limits, and the bill would suspend in those lanes the current California statute governing speeds above 100 mph, where a first violation for exceeding that speed results in a fine of $500, a second within three years a fine of $750, and a third within five years a fine of $1000 and the suspension of that driver’s license.
Rural highways in Texas have speed limits that can be as high as 80 mph, as well as one 41-mile section posted at 85 mph.
According to the bill, money for construction of two new lanes on each side of I-5 and CA-99 would be drawn from California’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Moorlach doesn’t give an estimated cost for the project, but says the state already owns the right of way necessary for the lanes. The bill is being pitched as a way to cut idling in traffic and therefore reduce greenhouse gases, as well as a quicker and more easily implemented solution to easing gridlock than a long-distance high-speed rail line such as one that was recently canceled.
Moorlach also defends his proposal as safer. “If you look at what’s happening in Germany, the freeway accidents on the autobahn are a lot less than what’s happening on our roads.” Neither the bill nor Moorlach have so far addressed driver training that may be necessary for drivers unaccustomed to traveling at such speeds; Germany’s more rigorous driver-education system makes acquiring a license more difficult and costly than is typical in the United States. Additionally, there is no detail as to whether there would be a minimum speed limit for the lanes. According to Moorlach, the lanes would be kept separate from other lanes, where the speed limit would remain 65 mph.
The highest posted speed limit in the United States is currently 85 mph, on a 41-mile section of State Highway 130 in Texas. Montana had no daytime speed limit until 1974, when the federal 55-mph limit was passed, and again from that law’s repeal in December 1995 until the enactment of a 75-mph limit in May 1999.
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