Looks like Texas isn't satisfied with bigger -- it wants faster, too:
As lead singer of Van Halen, Sammy Hagar once crooned, "I can't drive 55." To show how far things have come, now some Texans aren't happy about only driving 80 miles per hour. The Legislature is considering raising the maximum speed limit to 85 mph, highest in the country.
Local conditions, local rules. It can take an awfully long time to drive somewhere in Texas, and it has a lot of straight-shot, multi-laned roads it doesn't make sense to go slowly on. In the days before the 55-limit, certain stretches of Ohio roads had signs that said, "Resume safe speed" or words to that effect. Now, there was an invitation for recklessess.
Love that Hagar song, by the way, even if time has passed it by. Of course, I like bel
