Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5f.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!jrt From: jrt@hou5f.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re:Re:55 and Type A Behavior Message-ID: <330@hou5f.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jul-83 11:42:42 EDT Article-I.D.: hou5f.330 Posted: Thu Jul 14 11:42:42 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jul-83 13:28:46 EDT Organization: American Bell ED&D, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 34 Copy of reply to... >To: ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-visi!alberta!auvax!madrid >Subject: Re: 55 and Type A Behavior >References: <158@auvax.UUCP> You don't understand why any sane person would want to drive 70mph????.. Look back through previous articles, and you will find at least one good reason.... As a service engineer I used to travel from Norfolk, Va and Washington D.C. several times a week. At 70 mph, the 210 mile distance was 3hrs long. Add 2hrs of work, and another 3hrs back... presented me with an 8 hour day. A not-intolerable time. Change the speed limit to 55, and the time now is 4hrs (almost)..presenting me with a 10hr day. The last two hours I was on the road, I was tired...VERY tired. ..It makes driving DANGEROUS!.. Truckers, tourists and the like have an even larger problem. Their 2100 mile trips become 40hrs long instead of 30hrs. If you limit travel to 10hrs a day (for obvious safety reasons) the three day trip becomes a four day trip. Expressways were originally designed for 70mph, as were automobiles. I am very much in favor of keeping the 55mph limit, within urban areas where there are large numbers of cars on the road with multiple on/off exits. Out in the country, between cities, on limited access expressways, I am very much FOR changing the limit back to 70mph. (** FRODO **) alias hou5f!jrt