75mph signs start going up in KS
 

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Starting tomorrow, drivers on some highways will be able to go 75 miles per hour.
The Kansas Department of Transportation has been placing the new speed limit signs along highways Thursday in preparation for the change on Friday.
According to a news release from the Kansas Department of Transportation, the following location will see the speed limit change:

• I-135 from a half-mile north of the 85th Street interchange in Harvey County to I-70 near Salina.
• I-70 from the Colorado state line to just west of Topeka in Shawnee County.
• I-35 from U.S. 50 just east of Emporia to a mile east of the Sunflower/Edgerton Interchange in Johnson County.
• U.S. 81 from I-70 near Salina north to K-106.
• U.S. 69 from just six-tenths of a mile north of the north junction of U.S. 54 in Bourbon County to the 199th Street Interchange in Johnson County.
• The Kansas Turnpike from the Oklahoma state line to K-7 in Wyandotte County.

A total of 807 miles of Kansas roads will be 75 miles per hour.

KDOT hopes to have all the signs changed in time for the 4th of July holiday weekend.

**** yeah! Soon, crank it up to 80!

Max: 85
Recommended: 75
Minimum: 55

I thought it already was 75 on I-70 past Topeka


Of course making that boring ass trip can cause brain damage

I guess instead of having people race side by side down the HWY at 72 MPH taking up both lanes, now they can race side by side at 77 taking up both damn lanes!

That's only in Missouri.

We don't have enough people to occupy TWO whole lanes at once!

this just lets all us Kansans get a real head of steam going so we can run multiple murons over once we hit the state line.

LOL. Of course I currently have no car that I would feel safe going 75 mph in at the moment.

I drive a 1990 Plymouth Turismo and I am 320 pounds, I also have roughly 44 pounds of egg mcmuffin with sausage wrappers in my car. No way am I getting upto 75 mpg

That means you're safe from a ticket up to 82mph :)

75 MILES PER HOUR??!! How does that work? Don't you get the bends or something if you slow down too quickly?

The state knows people want to get the **** outta that state, quick.

Congratulations on taking a daring leap into the 21st century.

I don't want to be anywhere near people who are driving at 75 and leaping too.

I've been traveling 80mph on Kansas highways for years now, so this only means I'll now be able to go 85. :evil: