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This Week:
If you're like most Iowans, you probably hit one of our Interstate highways or four-lane freeways at least once every couple of weeks, if not more often. And for those of us who spend a lot of time on the rural freeways, there's nothing more frustrating than dragging along at 65 miles an hour when just across the state line almost anywhere -- Nebraska, Minnesota, or Missouri included -- the limits are at least 5 miles an hour higher.
Tonight we'll talk about bringing Iowa's speed limits up to par with the rest of the Midwest. Think you
Links:
2002 Iowa DOT Report on Iowa Speed Limits
National Motorists Association, a group that favors higher speed limits
Institute of Transportation Engineers
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, a group opposing higher speed limits
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