Bills to Raise Virginia Speed Limits Pass

February 4, 2010

  • February 4, 2010 at 1:19 am
    nobody important says:
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    I have never noticed anyone on I95 or I85 paying the slightest attention to any sort of speed limit. Pedal to the metal.

  • February 4, 2010 at 2:58 am
    I CAN drive 55! says:
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    Slow down. Drive 55. Save lives. Save Gas. Glad to see taxpayers $$ are being put to good use in VA.

  • February 4, 2010 at 3:20 am
    Cairne says:
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    Speed doesn’t kill, losing control and hitting and object kills….. Also driving 10 mphs under the speed limit or 15 in VA now is just as dangerous.

  • February 4, 2010 at 4:45 am
    Just like falls says:
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    Falling doesn’t kill, it’s the sudden stop at the end.

  • February 4, 2010 at 5:35 am
    Baxtor says:
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    Okay if things were going good right now, then I’d be okay with this. But doesn’t VA like the rest of the USA need money right now? If so, wouldn’t you want to keep the lower speed limit for revenue? Pull them over and write a ticket vs giving them a free ticket on the freeway? Plus, now they have to pay highway workers to change the speed limit signs. Figures, take in less money, but pay more expenses to change signs. VA either has no funding problems or they are the result of public education…sorry I mean Harvard education (Have no clue on how the real world works).

  • February 5, 2010 at 7:03 am
    Mark Br. says:
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    OK, I’m ready: “I speed all the time and I’ve never killed anybody, so speeding must be safe.” “The government shouldn’t be so intrusive.” Blah, blah, blah. Please shut up and slow down.

  • February 5, 2010 at 9:09 am
    Paul Masley says:
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    It is about time that the Communist State of Virginia got in line with the rest of the states on the eastern coast and raised the limit to 70. The interstates were designed for traffic in most places to support an 80 mph speed limit. I-81 is a different animal in certain places and 60 is just too fast, but overall, for the rest, 70 to 75 is ample for the road conditions.

    What we need in enforcement is for the Police to enforce the left lane laws and if they catch someone playing wannabe traffic cop traveling in the passing lane at 10 below the limit, stop them and write them a ticket for reckless endangerment. They are a danger to everyone else.

    If you want to drive 55, get on the country two lanes. The interstate system is for moving commerce, not a pictorial joyride.

    When you get on an interstate you need to have full concentration on what you are doing. Not putting on makeup, fussing with your hair, swatting kids in the backseat, texting or gabbing on your phone.

    I have driven up on vehicles in the left lane running 70 and they are doing 40.

    Are they crazy?

    Do they have a death wish?

    Oh, wait a minute, you hit them in the rear, you are at fault. Big Insurance Payout. That’s it!

    My F-250 truck weights almost 4 tons empty. Cruising at 70, it takes well over 170 feet to stop it. When you pull out in front of me in your Prius, putting at 40 on an interstate with your head stuck up your ***, you are just dying for some action.

    (HINT) I do carry a crowbar just to pry these little deathtraps out of my grille.

  • February 5, 2010 at 9:16 am
    Lieutenant Morris says:
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    I’ll be waiting for you, Paul.

  • February 5, 2010 at 9:33 am
    Joker says:
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    Well said Paul. If I see another idiotic prius or corolla driver dogging it in the left lane, I’ll lose my mind.

    News flash: See all those cars in your rearview mirror Mr/Mrs Prius driver? That’s called traffic and you’re the cause. MOVE YOUR ELECTRIC TISSUE BOX OVER!

  • February 5, 2010 at 9:36 am
    Paul Masley says:
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    Morris, why will you see me soon?

    I will not do anything to attract your attention. Your attention should be on the idiots on your highway that causes the crashes by their incompetence.

    If you are a cop, you know yourself that 95% of the truck crashes involving 4-wheelers are caused by the idiot driving the car. I investigate these crashes in your state and in mine. And yes, they are crashes, not accidents.

    And usually in a “multiple car crash scenario” the usual cause is someone changing lanes traveling at the speed limit to pass that damn idiot in the left lane running 40 and came up on that idiot too fast to slow down to avoid hitting them in the ***. I have seen it happen.

    I drove through the medium once to avoid an idiot that caused a crash by pulling out of the slow lane into the fast lane running well below the limit. I missed her, but the car behind me did not. The idiot was lucky that she did not die in her little Honda. She was hit by a Silverado.

    So, before you threaten to wait for me, do your job and take the idiots off the road before one of those underinsured fools takes out your own family for their own stupidity.



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