Would You Pay To Drive Fast?
Would you pay to drive fast? How about really fast? That's what folks are apparently willing to do in Texas, where a toll road with an 85 mph speed limit- yes you heard me right!- opens this month. 85 mph is the highest speed limit in the country.
And the price to use this racetrack- I mean corridor- is only about $6 for personal vehicles!
The San Antonio Express News has the story.
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
2 comments:
Well Texas is a big state so probably long drives with a faster speed limit would help, but even without the toll I think it would cost more, both in gas and car wrecks.
I thought they'd jack the price up for a couple of reasons- 1.) to pay for the facility faster (or even to go toward other transportation projects) and 2.) to keep the number of people using it somewhat low. The more people driving 85 mph, the more wrecks you're going to have, like you said.
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