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Re: MD traffic code/speeding question
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Subject: Re: MD traffic code/speeding question
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From: Robert Mounce <rmounce@us.net>
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Date: 27 Oct 1995 01:32:20 GMT
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Newsgroups: dc.general, dc.driving, balt.general
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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
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>> 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.
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>I've no idea, Thomas. The table (on page 36) of the MD Handbook
>doesn't explain how to make the distinction.
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>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.
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>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