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Why does everyone drive faster than the speed limit?
The simple answer is that because everyone else is doing it. It ends up being safer to be going at similar speeds as everyone else. If everyone is driving 75 mph when the speed limit is 55 mph, one person going almost 30\% difference in speed than everyone else is dangerous.
Why does everyone speed in Michigan?
With the exceptions of our larger urban areas in Michigan, we have a lot of lighter traveled paved roads. In areas like mine, it’s a long way between everything, thus most people speed up to get there faster. The average over seems to be 5–8 miles an hour over the limit.
Where is the speed limit 75 in Michigan?
The law, Public Act 445 of 2016, tasked the Michigan Department of Transportation and Michigan State Police with raising speed limits to 75 mph on at least 600 miles of rural freeways and to 65 on at least 900 miles of other highways.
How did the Interstate Highway System affect cities?
But those highways also gutted many cities, with whole neighborhoods torn down or isolated by huge interchanges and wide ribbons of asphalt. Wealthier residents fled to the suburbs, using the highways to commute back in by car. That drained the cities’ tax bases and hastened their decline.
How many miles of Interstate highways were there in 1950s?
The 48,000 miles of interstate highway that would be paved across the country during the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s were a godsend for many rural communities. But those highways also gutted many cities, with whole neighborhoods torn down or isolated by huge interchanges and wide ribbons of asphalt.
Are US Highways really free to run through cities?
The new bill essentially gave states highways for free — provided they consented to the paths created in the yellow book, which had highways running through every city center in the US: The yellow book called for I-80 and 280 to connect near the Golden Gate Bridge. (Public Roads Administration — Federal Works Agency)
Why do highways cut directly through the core of cities?
As a result, the official plans dictated that highways cut directly through the core of virtually every major city in order to bring commuters from newly growing suburbs in and out: The yellow book planned for several highways to cut across Manhattan. ( Public Roads Administration — Federal Works Agency)