Texas "Autobahn" toll road to get 85 mph (137 km/h) speed limit?
Posted Jun 7th 2012 4:30PM
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Oh, Montana, how we miss your speed-limitless ways of the mid-1990s. We were carefree and young then, driving a 10-year-old Chevrolet that in no way, shape, or form was designed to travel at its top speed for hours on end. But that didn't stop us, we the "reasonable and prudent," and neither did it stop our digital dashboard from just flashing "85" mph (137 km/h) over and over and over again. We'll never know how fast we were really going, but suffice it to say, we were traveling at the speed of youth.
Today, the search for fast, legal roads pretty much starts and ends in Germany, with the American State of Texas a distant second. But the one-time Republic may have just cut the distance between it and the Autobahn-wielding Germans by eight kilometers per hour. A new toll road, part of State Highway 130, is under construction near Austin, TX the state's notoriously traffic-clogged capitol, and it may have its speed set at 85 (137 km/h) when it opens. The Texas Department of Transportation made the decision, according to the Fox News report, in the wake of the legislature passing a law in 2011 to raise the maximum limit from 80 (128 km/h) to 85 mph (137 km/h) on approved highways.
