Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: speed limits - (nf) Message-ID: <1065@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 01:17:20 EDT Article-I.D.: zehntel.1065 Posted: Thu Jun 16 01:17:20 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jun-83 16:34:12 EDT Lines: 19 #R:hou5e:-55600:zinfandel:3200029:004:742 zinfandel!berry Jun 14 09:35:00 1983 The current issue of Car and Driver has an article on the 55 MPH speed limit. It is anti, of course, but well worth reading whatever your personal view. It includes a petition you can cut out, sign and send to President Reagan if you like. Why has no one mentioned that freeways are actually safer than surface streets? Note that everyone goes the same direction at about the same speed, and there is no cross traffic. This makes head-on and "T-bone" collisions much rarer on freeways. It seems to me that I have seen statistics to support this somewhere. Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (decvax!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900 (But note Disraeli: "There are three types of falsehoods: lies, damn lies and statistics.")