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In article <7a0oqi$eji@nnrp2.farm.idt.net>,
Douglas A. Willinger <dougwill@idt.net> wrote:
>

>This is consistent with my long held observations, and those of others who
>remember how the 55 mph speed limit subverted safety upon our highways.
>
>Douglas A. Willinger
>Takoma Park Highway Design Studio
>
>

  Doug, I use the data on auto fatalities from 1973-1974 to
teach statistics...you need some data base and it was also
obvious that govenment propaganda was largly a lie.  They
claimed 9,000 lives per year were 'saved' due to the
lowering of the national speed limit to 55.  Some states,
such as MD, showed the same predicted drop in fatalities
even though they always had a 55 mph speed limit.  Given the
regression trend line, which was downward every year, at
best maybe 1,000 lives were saved.  When the 55 mph limit
was repealed, the same trend line showed that, at best,
there were an additional 700 lives lost, not the 10,000 or
more predicted by 'experts'.
  However, higher speeds do increase the capacity of the
road without putting down more pavement.  I-81 in VA all the
way to Bristol is now dominated by heavy trucks.