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Re: Writing a Speech for raising 55mph to 65mph..



Robert G. Plantz (bob@cs.sonoma.edu) wrote:

: I don't like the 55 MPH speed limit, but let's look at some numbers. I
: think the average mileage is about 15,000 per year. Let's assume that
: 10,000 of those are at the prevailing speed limit. At 55 MPH that would
: take 181.8 hours, and at 65 MPH it would take 153.8 hours, for a savings
: of 28 hours per year. I'm a little hesitant to call an average savings
: of 4.6 minutes a day "an enormous amount of peoples (sic) time."

My time is valuable enough that I don't need to waste a day and a half of 
it per year.

You shouldn't be arguing 55 vs. 65, you should be arguing for 80-90 mph 
that our nation's freeways were designed for.

	-- Scott Larson


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