Comments on: House Gives Green Light To Higher Speed Limits In Sunshine State

By: Lady

Lady — Tue, 06 May 2014 01:42:15 +0000

Increasing the speed limits is going to cost more lives because like someone said earlier they will push not stop at 75 but will be driving 80 or 90 miles per hour and the drivers maintaining the legal limit will be the ones they hit while they are texting or talking on phone. Someone very close to me was hit by someone we believe was texting because he saw the young man coming toward him where he was parked and the fellow was not even looking at the road so he rammed him totaling all vehicles and now this person after 5 plus months is in bad condition with his neck and the condition is moving further down his backbone. We don’t know what is going to happen but not paying full attention in a vehicle and high speed added to this you can say we are in a war. I sincerely hope this increase in speed is killed . Think about saving lives and outlawing higher speed limits and OUTLAWING. TEXTING A VEHICLE!

By: Duke Ganote

Duke Ganote — Fri, 02 May 2014 20:18:29 +0000

75 FOR SAFETY! Rural interstates are the roads with potential 75-mph limits, accounting for about 1% of Florida’s traffic deaths in 2012 — despite carrying 5% of traffic. IF the goal is safety, drivers should be educated — and law enforcement should be focused — on risky locations and behaviors than minor offenses on superhighways.

I tell my teenage daughters “You may not get caught by the police on a local road doing stupid maneuvers, but you can easily wrap your car around a tree, head-on into opposing traffic, or T-bone another vehicle at an intersection. But you’ll certainly get a ticket on the interstate, ’cause that’s where the cops are.” Local and back roads are where most teenage traffic deaths occur.

Supporting 75 is support for rational speed limits, and enforcement focused on risky behaviors and dangerous locations. And that should save lives of teenagers and other drivers..

By: SHO-NUFF

SHO-NUFF — Fri, 02 May 2014 02:25:05 +0000

First they should bring vehicle inspections back.
There are plenty of automobiles on the road that are not safe to drive at 55 MPH, more less 75 MPH.

By: mick

mick — Fri, 02 May 2014 00:34:57 +0000

Higher speed limits mean higher over the speed limit drivers…what will law enforcement allow over the speed limit before they start issuing citations …lawmakers should again reconsider a stiffer fine for this texting/reading texts while driving, so now what you will have are drivers texting while driving at a higher rate of speed. It’s amazing the stupidity that is exhibited by these supposedly educated people in positions of public trust. We should get rid of them all and start over again.

By: Susan Garrison

Susan Garrison — Thu, 01 May 2014 13:56:23 +0000

So exactly what’s the advantage to our communities as a whole of raising the speed limit? Is it going to save gas? Save lives? Reduce insurance costs? Save money? No, just the opposite of all those things. It’s certainly not to save a speeding ticket. In Arizona on vacation where the speed limit is 75. Was anyone going 75? No, they’re going 80 or 85. Whatever the limit is, people are going to push it. There’s only one possible advantage and that’s to get somewhere just a little bit quicker. Is getting there a little bit quicker worth the cost of lives lost? Absolutely NOT! Folks you better get your head out of the sand and start calling the governor’s office and quickly.