Speed Limit Increase

• dlazz

  Surprised nobody made a thread about this, but the speed limit jumped on Ohio highways from 65 -> 70mph. The change was definintely felt on I-70 between Dayton/Columbus.
  
  http://www.dot.state.oh.us/news/Documents/70-MPH-Map.pdf
  
  
  Hope this helps
• Ironman92

  

  For whatever reason down here the speed limit is 55 in a lot of places on our four lane highways? Some places it's 60 and the only area it's 65 mph is in Gallia County on Rt 35???
• dlazz

  Ironman92;1468498 wrote:For whatever reason down here the speed limit is 55 in a lot of places on our four lane highways? Some places it's 60 and the only area it's 65 mph is in Gallia County on Rt 35???

  I think it only applies to interstates, and it only is applicable to interstates in the middle of nowhere.
  
  Pretty sure it went into effect on July 1st.
• Pick6

  

  Ironman92;1468498 wrote:For whatever reason down here the speed limit is 55 in a lot of places on our four lane highways? Some places it's 60 and the only area it's 65 mph is in Gallia County on Rt 35???

  not an interstate.
• Ironman92

  

  Sorry.....we consider highways as anything that's a state route and 4 lane.
  
  Those roads 70/75/71/77 seem not to have an enforced speed limit anyway
• Pick6

  

  Ironman92;1468501 wrote:Sorry.....we consider highways as anything that's a state route and 4 lane.
  
  Those roads 70/75/71/77 seem not to have an enforced speed limit anyway

  Then you have apparently never been pulled over on them.
• Ironman92

  

  How about some educating of the roads....
  
  Why isn't Route 35 an interstate?
• Ironman92

  

  Pick6;1468502 wrote:Then you have apparently never been pulled over on them.

  
  Nope......been on all of them a bit and 70/71 a good bit.....
  
  On 70 and 71 it just seems like there is always someone flying by you at 85 mph+ and you can just trail them and just never get bothered.
• Pick6

  

  Ironman92;1468503 wrote:How about some educating of the roads....
  
  Why isn't Route 35 an interstate?

  because the whole route isnt 4 lanes? because there are stop lights along it?
• GOONx19

  

  Awesome. I take 71 to 76 home from school. Should be a little quicker.
• Ironman92

  

  Pick6;1468506 wrote:because the whole route isnt 4 lanes? because there are stop lights along it?

  
  Because it wasn't paid for by the federal government.
  
  Route 35 is 4 lane from Dayton to about 10 miles into West Virginia. I don't think that stretch has any red lights either. It did used to go 2 lane-4 lane-2 lane-4 lane....but it's all 4 lane except from past Dayton to Eaton and for about 15 miles in West Virginia before you get to Charleston.
• Pick6

  

  I usually drive 75-80 on the interstate. So, it doesnt affect me really, just lowers my chance to get a ticket.
• redstreak one

  

  Ironman, another distinction is the fact that Interstates don't have intersections, only on ramps. US 35 has intersections and the fear is going 70 with cars going across a highway is a recipe for disaster. I was in Myrtle and on the way home future interstate 73, which was speculated as going through SE ohio is built in North Carolina, however, it was meant to run from Michigan to Myrtle, but South Carolina, West Virginia, Michigan and Ohio refuse to build it, and in this economy who can blame them.
• Ironman92

  

  redstreak one;1468538 wrote:Ironman, another distinction is the fact that Interstates don't have intersections, only on ramps. US 35 has intersections and the fear is going 70 with cars going across a highway is a recipe for disaster. I was in Myrtle and on the way home future interstate 73, which was speculated as going through SE ohio is built in North Carolina, however, it was meant to run from Michigan to Myrtle, but South Carolina, West Virginia, Michigan and Ohio refuse to build it, and in this economy who can blame them.

  
  Thanks.....was 73 the one that was going to go thru Zahn's Corner?
  
  Ramps make sense.....but not to be able to go 70 mph on Rt 32 is just ridiculous.....it's straight and it's flat but I swear every other day in Pike Co someone pulls right in front of me at an intersection where you can see for a 1/2 mile.
• said_aouita

  

  dlazz;1468496 wrote:Surprised nobody made a thread about this

  Because nobody gives a fuck.
• GoChiefs

  

  said_aouita;1468570 wrote:Because nobody gives a fuck.

  
  Nobody gives a fuck about a speed limit increase? Bullshit.
• said_aouita

  

  GoChiefs;1468574 wrote:Nobody gives a fuck about a speed limit increase? Bullshit.

  Obviously nobody cared enough to make a thread about it until now.
  
  I guess they were too busy watching the video of a cop shooting a dog.
• Sonofanump

  redstreak one;1468538 wrote:another distinction is the fact that Interstates don't have intersections

  This.
• Sonofanump

  I usually am on 80-90, so I did not realize that 75, 71, 70 did not increase to 70 yet like the turnpike did two years ago.
• Jughead

  

  redstreak one;1468538 wrote:Ironman, another distinction is the fact that Interstates don't have intersections, only on ramps.

  Nor does US 35 between the west side of Xenia and Richmondale, roughly a 75 mile stretch. In between these towns, I see no reason why the speed couldn't be 70 with the exception of the Chillicothe ramps between 104 and 159. Too much merging traffic there to have such high speeds. Another lane each direction would be necessary.
  
  

  redstreak one;1468538 wrote:I was in Myrtle and on the way home future interstate 73, which was speculated as going through SE ohio is built in North Carolina, however, it was meant to run from Michigan to Myrtle, but South Carolina, West Virginia, Michigan and Ohio refuse to build it, and in this economy who can blame them.

  I 73 is a different animal. South of Columbus, the section of current US 23 between SR 207 and SR 104 (on both ends of Chillicothe) is the only section built as limited access. A lot of money would be needed to remove driveways and at-grade intersections from crossing the highway, but the path is there.
• ts1227

  

  I got to drive 70 yesterday in I-71 between route 83 and I-76.
  
  Hope this helps.
  

  redstreak one;1468538 wrote:Ironman, another distinction is the fact that Interstates don't have intersections, only on ramps. US 35 has intersections and the fear is going 70 with cars going across a highway is a recipe for disaster. I was in Myrtle and on the way home future interstate 73, which was speculated as going through SE ohio is built in North Carolina, however, it was meant to run from Michigan to Myrtle, but South Carolina, West Virginia, Michigan and Ohio refuse to build it, and in this economy who can blame them.

  WV is still considering it, but we'll all be dead before OH or MI do it. Even NC, who was gung ho about it, is running low on money.
• thavoice

  Not that huge of a deal.
  
  But I did notice when I travel that on roads that aare 70 the traffic flows better.
  A certain amount of the pop will travel the speed limit.
  Certain percentage will travel at a speed they feel comfy at.
  Certain % will speed 10+ no matter what.
  
  I think in states that are 70 that you have those who drive teh limit, and I think many of those who drive at a speed they are comfortable at, 70, merge together and get a better flow
• Laley23

  

  This is great.
  
  I am constantly driving all over the state for work. This will make the long trips 20-30 minutes shorter (just by going 5 MPH faster form what I go now). Huge.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Just returned from Georgia, and the 70 MPH is definitely nice. Dayton is still a bitch, and 65 MPH b/t Dayton/Cincy is retarded. There are 3-4 lanes the entire way. Why not make it 70? Or why not put up digital speed signs, so you can change the speed when necessary?
• dlazz

  ernest_t_bass;1469261 wrote: Dayton is still a bitch, and 65 MPH b/t Dayton/Cincy is retarded. There are 3-4 lanes the entire way. Why not make it 70?

  1. Dayton isn't that bad.
  2. They likely made it 65 because that area is growing and won't be "rural" for too long.