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To: Dale Baker who wrote (19018)	5/19/2006 5:46:17 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543488

"That's not good news for safety," says Richard Retting, senior transportation engineer at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an industry group. "When states raise speed limits, they're trading lives for faster travel times." Thinking about our discussion of tax cuts. I'd like to see Mr. Retting provide some proof of that statement, and also some detail as to how big the factor is. "If the speed limit is raised to 80, everybody is going to be doing 85 or 90," says Hudspeth County Judge Becky Dean-Walker, the top elected official in one county facing the move to 80. "That's just human nature." I think there is a certain thought that "I can speed by just a little and get away with it", but I don't think people will speed as often or by as much if speed limits are raised to 80 or 90 miles per hour. A lot of people just think driving 70 or 80 or under some circumstances 90mph is reasonable. They think 55 is too slow esp, for flat straight interstates with little traffic. If the speed limit is 80 far fewer people will think it is too slow. The Kansas Turnpike had an 80-mph limit beginning in 1956 And that with cars that don't have as good of suspension, breaks, tires, or safety equipment of today's cars.