{"id":1213,"date":"2019-02-22T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2019\/02\/22\/lege-trend-state-legislation-to-remove-speed-limits-on-highways\/"},"modified":"2019-02-22T02:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T02:10:00","slug":"lege-trend-state-legislation-to-remove-speed-limits-on-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-state-legislation-to-remove-speed-limits-on-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. State legislation to remove speed limits on highways."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State: California<\/p>\n<p>The bill: <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB319\">SB 319 (CA | 2019)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0\u00a0Moorlach, R-Costa Mesa<\/p>\n<p>Parameters of the bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limited to 2\u00a0lanes each to the north- and south-bound lanes of I-5 &amp;\u00a0Highway 99<\/li>\n<li>there will be a lower speed limit<br \/>\n\t\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supporters say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u201ctraffic congestion increases the emissions of greenhouse gases as it causes automobiles to idle longer while on roadways.\u201c<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a02008 Purdue University report found that &#8220;raising the speed limit on an interstate highway in Indiana had not increased the probability of fatalities or serious injuries&#8221;\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article226582279.html\">Sacramento Bee |\u00a0<strong style=\"font-weight:bold;\">No speed limit? That could become a reality for two California highways<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State: California<\/p>\n<p>The bill: <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB319\">SB 319 (CA | 2019)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0\u00a0Moorlach, R-Costa Mesa<\/p>\n<p>Parameters of the bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limited to 2\u00a0lanes each to the north- and south-bound lanes of I-5 &amp;\u00a0Highway 99<\/li>\n<li>there will be a lower speed limit<br \/>\n\t\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supporters say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u201ctraffic congestion increases the emissions of greenhouse gases as it causes automobiles to idle longer while on roadways.\u201c<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a02008 Purdue University report found that &#8220;raising the speed limit on an interstate highway in Indiana had not increased the\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}