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Re: MD traffic code/speeding question



charles.day@gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Day) wrote:
>> >                           Business     Outlying    Open
>> >                           sections     sections    country
>> >
>> > On ordinary highways       30 mph       30 mph      50 mph
>> > On divided highways        30 mph       35 mph      55 mph
>> > On interstate highways       ---          ---       55 mph  
>> 
>> How are you supposed to tell whether you're in a business section 
>> or an outlying section, or whether you're in an outlying section
>> or open country? I bet a lot of folks get screwed--er, I mean 
>> taxed--for making that distinction improperly.
>
>
>I've no idea, Thomas. The table (on page 36) of the MD Handbook 
>doesn't explain how to make the distinction. 
>
>Certainly you can't use obvious things like the presence of schools,
>churches and houses close to an undivided highway. This is exactly 
>the situation on MD 410 (Riverdale Rd / East-West Hway) between the 
>BW Parkway and MD 201 (Kenilworth Ave). Yet here the speed limit is
>40 MPH. On the same road, between MD 201 and US 1, where the highway
>becomes divided and the houses are set back from the road, the speed
>limit DROPS to 35 MPH.
>
>Charles

Although irrelevant to this particular discussion, but 
interesting in the trivia department:

I just returned last year from 3 years in England where they 
have a 3 tier speed limit also:  30 mph in built-up areas,
60 mph on country roads, and 70 mph on divided highways.
The definition of a "built up area" from their highway
code is any area where there are street lights.  So if you
see street lights - 30 mph; no street lights - 60 mph.  
Maybe Maryland has something similar on the books.

Robert