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Under Texas Transportation Code section 545.365, the following vehicles are exempt from speed limits during emergency situations: An authorized emergency vehicle responding to a call. A police patrol.
As of May 15, 2017, 41 states have maximum speed limits of 70 mph (113 km/h) or higher. 18 of those states have 75 miles per hour (121 km/h) speed limits or higher, while 7 states of that same portion have 80 mph (129 km/h) speed limits, with Texas even having an 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) speed limit on one of its toll roads.
Most roads, such as rural two-lane roads, rural divided expressways and interstates, and urban interstates are posted at 75 mph (121 km/h), but some rural freeways and interstates have 80 mph (130 km/h) speed limits, and one toll road, Texas State Highway 130, has an 85 mph (137 km/h) speed limit, the highest in the United States.
The maximum speed limit on rural two-lane roads ranges from 50 mph (80 km/h) in parts of the northeast to 75 mph (120 km/h) in parts of Texas. On rural Interstate Highways and other freeways, the speed limit ranges from 60 mph (96 km/h) in Hawaii to 85 mph (136 km/h) in parts of Texas. All roads in the United States have a speed limit, but it ...
Areas where the speed limit changes from higher to lower Does Texas law enforcement set traffic ticket quotas? Texas Transportation Code section 720.002 , prohibits municipalities from setting or ...
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In roughly a 50-mile (80 km) radius of the Houston–Galveston and Dallas–Ft. Worth regions, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality convinced [198] the Texas Department of Transportation to reduce the speed limit on all roads with 70 or 65 mph (113 or 105 km/h) speed limits by 5 mph. [199] This was instituted as part of a plan to ...
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