Variable speed limits are coming to Texas highways. Here's how they work.

Digital signs flashing different speed limits are starting to pop up on Texas highways. They're part of a new initiative in ...

Variable speed limits are popping up across America – here's how the system works

While the rest of the world utilizes a different system for determining its roads' speed limits, America continues using ...
Fast Company

States rethink setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel

Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools, and a busy park that hosts numerous youth ...
MassLive

Months after 25 mph switch, police to review speed limits on Westfield streets

WESTFIELD — To address the confusion many city residents have expressed since nearly every 30 mph speed limit sign in the city was swapped to 25 mph three months ago, the Police Department has ...
Star Tribune

Minnesota cities have lowered their speed limits. Has it slowed drivers down?

Brightly colored banners on Richfield streetlights remind drivers there’s a new speed limit in town: “Slower is scenic. Richfield Drives 25.″ The 5 mph decrease in speed limits on residential streets ...
USA Today

Are speed limits on the rise? As states OK 80 mph on highways, cities say '20 is plenty'

Observant motorists may notice a curious trend on U.S. roads: Driving on highways is getting faster while city speeds are getting slower. In denser, more residential areas, an increasing number of ...
The Indianapolis Star

The speed limit on parts of I-465 increases on July 1. Here's what you need to know

Central Indiana drivers will see new speed limits on most of Interstate 465 starting on July 1. State lawmakers approved a bill earlier this year that raises the speed limit on I-465 from 55 to 65 ...
Visalia Times-Delta

Tulare County supervisors change speed limits on multiple area roads; here's where

The Tulare County Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance at its Jan. 7 meeting to change the speed limits in many locations in the county. “Within 30 days of the ordinance taking place, we're ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Lowering city speed limit to 25 mph gets committee OK — but final Council vote slowed down

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Detroit Free Press

Everyone speeds on Detroit's Lodge Freeway. But there’s a reason for the 55-mph limit.

While the posted speed limit on the Lodge Freeway is officially 55 mph, traffic usually moves much faster. Authorities at the Michigan Department of Transportation say they know drivers tend to speed, ...
Wane

States rethink a long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel

(AP) — Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools and a busy park that hosts numerous ...