{"id":69700,"date":"2012-09-09T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69700"},"modified":"2012-09-09T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:43:10","slug":"why-texas%e2%80%99-insanely-fast-85-mph-speed-limit-isn%e2%80%99t-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69700","title":{"rendered":"Why Texas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Insanely Fast 85 MPH Speed Limit Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t A Big Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shift into fifth gear and hit 70 mph as I merge onto the State Highway 130 toll road east of Austin. The speed limit on this road is 80 mph, so that&#8217;s where I stop accelerating until a Chevy Tahoe packed with children passes me in the left lane, probably doing around 90. Then I decide to push the accelerator a bit more and let my speedometer creep up to 85.<\/p>\n<p>At this moment, I am bre\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Moreaking Texas law. That won&#8217;t be the case in November, when a new section of SH 130 opens up with an 85 mph speed limit \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the fastest in the Western Hemisphere, according to some reports.<\/p>\n<p>Is an 85 mph speed limit unbelievably awesome? Maybe, but I&#8217;m not so sure\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5941587\/why-texas-insanely-fast-85-mph-speed-limit-isnt-a-big-deal\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shift into fifth gear and hit 70 mph as I merge onto the State Highway 130 toll road east of Austin. The speed limit on this road is 80 mph, so that&#8217;s where I stop accelerating until a Chevy Tahoe packed with children passes me in the left lane, probably doing around 90. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69702,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69700\/revisions\/69702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}