In California especially on highway 5 where it's all flat, typical speeds are 90-100 mph. When you are stopped you pretend you are a Canadian, and didn't realize it wasn't 100kph
A cop pulls a car over for going 20 mph on the highway
The driver is a little old lady, and there are two old ladies in the back seat.
The cop asks, "Why were you driving just 20 miles per hour?"
The old lady responds, "I was just going the posted speed limit!" and points to a sign up ahead.
The cop smiles and says, "That's not the speed limit sign, that's the sign for this highway ā Route 20!"
One of the old ladies in the back gasps out, "We tried to tell you, Eugenia!"
The cop takes another look at the old women in the back and sees that they are wide-eyed and disheveled. One of them is tightly gripping the door handle.
"What's the matter?" the cop asks.
She responds, "We just came off of Interstate 190."
Go with the flow of traffic.
The speed limits are laughable here and nobody pays attention to it.
I was just driving on Route 2 where the speed limit is 45, I was going 64 in the right lane and several cars went zooming past me.
Fun story: I was hauling some lumber on the roof rack of my sedan once to a friend out in Central MA, and so obviously I selected "avoid highways" on the maps so I could just do backroads-only like a sane person doing stupid shit in their car. And every map app kept routing me along Rt 2 because, I assume, it's supposedly not highway speeds
Actually trying to travel Rt 2 at 45mph is *fucking terrifying* even with hazards on
I've been shocked and touched by the tolerance of MA drivers for me doing some pretty ballsy hauls in small cars (SUVs are for wimps).
I always do backroads & use my hazards, but people have been really great about seeing me, slowing down for me, and just generally having patience.
If itās bold but sane, Iāll slow down and give you space because I know it helps.
If itās not so sane, Iāll give you even more space because I donāt want a sheet of plywood between my teeth.
I pulled up to Home Depot to pick up 20 bags of sand in my 2 door sports coupe and the guy bringing them out to my car gave me a "Are you sure about this?"
In my experience MA drivers have no patience for people who aren't paying attention and thus holding things up, or don't understand when their supposed to go etc. But if you are legit doing what you have to do people respect that.
Backroads are very very different than highway merges in the city. True narcissists are a minority, but on the 93 NB on-ramp leaving southie after 1pm, everyoneās a narcissist.
So, *that* time was on a weekend, so traffic was fast but relatively sparse
There was another time I had to do that mile or so through Concord at ~50mph due to car issues on a weekday and it was fucking packed *and* fast and that one, I was legit afraid someone would slam into me, even with hazards on
That's what I was doing. Car set to cruise and riding along in the right lane with the flow of traffic faster than the speed limit, but, no front plate because I'm Canadian and a state trooper nailed me for speeding. Pretty lame.
If they decide they want any to stop *you, in particular,* they'll find a retroactive reason. 56mph in a 55 zone will do it. So will one of your two rear license plate bulbs being out (yes, that's right, one isn't good enough even if the plate is perfectly lit), tinted windows, a rubber parking protector, an air freshener hanging on your rear view mirror, etc.
Some folks drive at or near the speed limit because they don't want to interact with cops at all. For whatever reason (but of course typically because they're wasted and/or getting wasted while they drive, let's be honest.)
I had to learn to drive by going on Rt 2 everyday, and my on-ramp didnāt have a merge lane. Imagine being 16 years old, driving for the first time (with a standard transmission), and waiting for a gap in traffic thatās long enough for you to go 0-70 asap.
Itās terrifying if you live in the apartments on route 2 and need to almost stop to turn in (letās say an Uber driver parked awfully or a kid is riding around on a bike in the driveway) while someone is going 80 right behind you. Iām talking about route 2 east heading towards the lights or the exit to Alewife station. Itās so incredibly scary. I donāt know how there hasnāt been major accidents on that stretch of road because for some reason people think 80 mph with less than 1/4 mile before a red light is reasonable.
I feel like most people jam on their brakes there. Youāre flying going 60+ for like 10 miles from the last light in Lincoln then hit the Alewife split and it surprises people that donāt know.
It used to be a 60mph limit but it got changed when the federal 55mph limit went into effect in the 1970s, but then never got changed back because the staties lobbied against it. Even though the road has been straightened since then and designed for higher speeds, and cars have improved significantly since the 70s, but it 55mph persists because no one wanted to piss off the police union.
I moved to PA where people drive so much slower (and poorer) than Mass. When I drive back up there, the minute I cross into New England, everybody suddenly starts going 20 mph faster. The first time my gf (PA native) and I drove up to Boston, we were on 95, and people were flying past us. She asked me how fast I was going. 85 lol. The entire time we were there she refused to drive. The first time she did drive in Boston, the Columbia Rd rotary freaked her out so bad she ended up having to go around it a few times before she felt comfortable to exit.
Maybe not in mass but certainly in rural areas like the stretch of 89 in Connecticut after the mass border is a well known speed trap. I guess property taxes aren't enough to keep the lights on at the police departments in those areas. Ditto for NH.
Edit 84.
Don't have to guess I already know š
I was bombing 80 on 16 in NH one time and I see a statie in the median. Guy pulls over the MA car I passed like a minute ago instead of me hahaha
If they start putting up speed cams w $50 bills around city and on highways, I need a gang of delinquents to fuck them up. Not tryna get charged to drive how I should be able to
We need higher speed limits on highways to reflect what the authorities actually deem is an unsafe speed. And we need better enforcement of speed limits on city streets.
Itās frankly absurd that going 80 (25 over) on the interstate is as illegal as going 50 (25 over) on a residential street with a playground. One should be legal, the other should involve a license suspension, and yet we treat them the sameāand by that I mean the cops turn a blind eye to both.
Mass DOT employee back in like 2006 came out and said higher limits on the highway would never happen. Speed limits are kept low to generate revenue and as a side effect make policing more convenient. If everyone is traveling over the speed limit you have a valid reason to stop any car.
I used to work with some traffic engineers and they would routinely be frustrated with administrators for one reason or another. But one that came up in conversation was speed limits and how they relate to design.
Say you're putting in a new road, the engineers will design the road with an agreed upon project spec of, as an example, 45mph. Width, visibility, grade, curvature, density, etc, etc will all factor into making the road safe at that speed limit at design time.
But the municipality ultimately sets the speed limits for their town/city. And they will often look at that shiny new 45mph road and set it to 35mph. Why? Because they all know that as humans we're subject to our perception and people will perceive it as a 45mph road and they can stake a cop out there to nail people doing 45.
It's a fucking scam.
This. The unwritten rule is that everybody speeds and police can pull over anyone they like with probable cause. A few of us also will be sacrificed to the gods of revenue.
What, you don't think this whole "the unspoken speed limit is different from the legal speed limit" thing is clear and practical?
I agree, highway speeding should legally be different from city speeding.
Iāve been going 80 on route 3 and had a state cop just tailgate me because he wanted to pass and go 90 multiple times..as long youāre driving safe then going 75-80 in the left lane is fine.
Isn't' double the limit a bigger offense, like driving to endanger, hich is a criminal offense not a civil offense. (may vary state to state, but I though it MA that was a thing)
None of the interstate highway speed limit signs are serious when they're below 65. Those aren't interstate speeds and everybody knows.
Old grannies can drive through Boston with cruise control locked on 75, why can't you?
If anything IMO these ridiculously low speed limits on highways are actually a source of distraction for drivers. I'm pretty sure a large section of people don't find these limits reasonable, and drive in the 65-70 range on average, but coz that is at least 10 over the limit, some of these drivers have to be on a constant lookout for cops.
I forgot the exact term, but in law there's a term for when lawmakers put a law to a level where most people are in violation of the law. This leads to what's known as Selective Enforcement, which is basically that the police get to decide from just about everyone who they want to punish. which means it's actually a form of injustice, at the end of the day.
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Eh keeping an eye on the road is good. Looking for cops is one part of it. If looking ahead and seeing brake lights means avoiding cops, thatās a win win cause it also means stopping sooner and less accidents.
But Iāve learned: if you see a cop, BE ON ALERT. They are liable to do the most unpredictable things out of any of the vehicles in the road.
Limit? ... pfft, that's a minimum limit and you better not do it in the left lane ... the left is reserverd for those in 'get the fuck out of my way' mode. The rules are simple, please follow them and we'll all get along quite fine.
Coming back from Vermont for the eclipse, cops were EVERYWHERE, so I slowed down to a nice 70mph on I-95. Other cars were being total assholes, and I thought: "why aren't cops pulling these guys over?" Then I saw two different high-speed chases with cops flying to catch cars running others off the road - one ended in a crash, the other ended in a semi-truck sprialing off an exit.
65 and most likely you won't get a ticket. If 75 is your speed, then they say that you are driving to endanger and the courthouse is your next stop.... But if you are my friend, then double it and add 10. It pretty much goes for any speed limit, but I'm not sure where he came up with that. Oh ya, I don't dive in my friends car anymore....
Could be 80ā¦or 40ā¦.or any speed in betweenā¦in the same car. Like Iām in the left lane doing 80 and a car comes up fast so I pull over. Then they never pass. Iām not your escort dude!
That straight stretch of 95 that goes through the Newbury wetlands is basically the Autobahn. No cops ever sit there because you could see them from literally a mile away with the gradient of the road and how open it is.
Reading this thread I get the impression that some of you might be breaking the law. But that canāt possibly be true because we all know itās the cyclists that are always breaking the law.
There are many laws that are consistently broken in MA. Hope you never did the dirty unmarried - no lie, āWhoever commits fornication shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three months or by a fine of not more than thirty dollars.ā
Haha weāre all criminals out here just living life and vibing.
This is the speeder's thread. I like the whole "you go with the flow of traffic" logic. I've seen groups of people try to line up to board an airplane and can't get their shit together, so I doubt a group of people driving whatever speed they want should be determining how fast everyone else should drive.
I donāt mind going with the flow of traffic, but then any ticket is for 25 over the limit if you *do* get unlucky, and that just sucks extra/feels extra unfair. I always try not to be the first in a āpackā of cars, so that Iām not the first one radarāed.
Remember during Covid? Those read 90. And youād fly by a statie, your heart would stop then you remember , theyāre not getting out if their carā¦.
Just got a ticket last night from a cop clearly just trying to earn money. He said we were going 82, and we definitely were driving mid to low 70s...but the thing is that because everyone drives in the 70s it means he can pull over anyone he wants and issue speeding tickets, and the only thing we could do is argue that the number was wrong. I think the cops like the speed limit being low.
I got a speeding ticket in my early twenty's on 95 in Waltham, cop says, you know what the speed limit is, I said yeah 65. He says "first thing you were going 78, second it's 55." Yeah that was a big ticket.
Iām sure that there a bunch more people who read it as 45 mph based on how often I have to switch lanes just to be able to continue driving at 55 mph.
When I was a kid in the mid 80's my dad drove faster than most, between 70-75 on the highway. That's similar to what I drive today, and I'm usually in the far right lane.
Get your eyes checked, old man. It says 80.
I read 88.
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Back to 1955. And in this pic, we have 1 sign on 95 that says 55. See? It's all lining up!
State trooper once told me: āyou go 83, you want to meet meā. I donāt go over 82 nowā¦
Can confirm.
Def 88.
At those speeds, we're gonna see some serious shit!
In California especially on highway 5 where it's all flat, typical speeds are 90-100 mph. When you are stopped you pretend you are a Canadian, and didn't realize it wasn't 100kph
Sorry but if youāre not going 117 Iām going to have to tail gate you from 3 inches away
14?
Also, pretty sure that's 128
āItās I-95 so *I* can go *95* on itā - Guy who passes you on the right while youāre doing 80
Does that mean your Ma can go 128 on it?
A cop pulls a car over for going 20 mph on the highway The driver is a little old lady, and there are two old ladies in the back seat. The cop asks, "Why were you driving just 20 miles per hour?" The old lady responds, "I was just going the posted speed limit!" and points to a sign up ahead. The cop smiles and says, "That's not the speed limit sign, that's the sign for this highway ā Route 20!" One of the old ladies in the back gasps out, "We tried to tell you, Eugenia!" The cop takes another look at the old women in the back and sees that they are wide-eyed and disheveled. One of them is tightly gripping the door handle. "What's the matter?" the cop asks. She responds, "We just came off of Interstate 190."
Grandma must have a wicked car
My momās on the older side, so I think MA-9 is more her speed.
It clearly says 80 not sure what's wrong here
I see 80 for sure. 90 to pass
Please explain this to the Statie who gave me a ticket on 128 for 82 in a 55.
Because you went 2mph over the limit!
You need to blend in.
Stay with the flow of traffic.
That would make more sense with the going rates, I'm usually poking along in the far right lane doing 70mph
Allegedly
It was a sick ostrich
And thisāll get people on ur ass in either of the 2 left lanes
Just move over
Speed limit means maximum speed in many locations, but in Massachusetts it actually is a minimum speed limit.
More of a sally recommendation than a limit. ;)
The speed limit on 128 is 5 MPH faster than they guy in front of you.
Go with the flow of traffic. The speed limits are laughable here and nobody pays attention to it. I was just driving on Route 2 where the speed limit is 45, I was going 64 in the right lane and several cars went zooming past me.
Fun story: I was hauling some lumber on the roof rack of my sedan once to a friend out in Central MA, and so obviously I selected "avoid highways" on the maps so I could just do backroads-only like a sane person doing stupid shit in their car. And every map app kept routing me along Rt 2 because, I assume, it's supposedly not highway speeds Actually trying to travel Rt 2 at 45mph is *fucking terrifying* even with hazards on
Although that sounds absolutely miserable; thank you for being careful and considerate. Thatās a rarity here.
I've been shocked and touched by the tolerance of MA drivers for me doing some pretty ballsy hauls in small cars (SUVs are for wimps). I always do backroads & use my hazards, but people have been really great about seeing me, slowing down for me, and just generally having patience.
If itās bold but sane, Iāll slow down and give you space because I know it helps. If itās not so sane, Iāll give you even more space because I donāt want a sheet of plywood between my teeth.
I pulled up to Home Depot to pick up 20 bags of sand in my 2 door sports coupe and the guy bringing them out to my car gave me a "Are you sure about this?"
Pool start up?
Nah, walkway layer between the crushed stone and the pavers.
In my experience MA drivers have no patience for people who aren't paying attention and thus holding things up, or don't understand when their supposed to go etc. But if you are legit doing what you have to do people respect that.
Backroads are very very different than highway merges in the city. True narcissists are a minority, but on the 93 NB on-ramp leaving southie after 1pm, everyoneās a narcissist.
I remember the Gauntlet of rt 2 when it was a double yellow line through concord Sudbury
Were you white knuckling the steering wheel?
So, *that* time was on a weekend, so traffic was fast but relatively sparse There was another time I had to do that mile or so through Concord at ~50mph due to car issues on a weekday and it was fucking packed *and* fast and that one, I was legit afraid someone would slam into me, even with hazards on
Yeah donāt do that.
That's what I was doing. Car set to cruise and riding along in the right lane with the flow of traffic faster than the speed limit, but, no front plate because I'm Canadian and a state trooper nailed me for speeding. Pretty lame.
If they decide they want any to stop *you, in particular,* they'll find a retroactive reason. 56mph in a 55 zone will do it. So will one of your two rear license plate bulbs being out (yes, that's right, one isn't good enough even if the plate is perfectly lit), tinted windows, a rubber parking protector, an air freshener hanging on your rear view mirror, etc. Some folks drive at or near the speed limit because they don't want to interact with cops at all. For whatever reason (but of course typically because they're wasted and/or getting wasted while they drive, let's be honest.)
Thatās until you get pulled over and get a citation for 400 dollars because the trooper picked you out of all the other cars
Or if you're in NH running the risk of them seizing your license depending on how over the limit you were.
Happened to me in upstate NY :(
I had to learn to drive by going on Rt 2 everyday, and my on-ramp didnāt have a merge lane. Imagine being 16 years old, driving for the first time (with a standard transmission), and waiting for a gap in traffic thatās long enough for you to go 0-70 asap.
Itās terrifying if you live in the apartments on route 2 and need to almost stop to turn in (letās say an Uber driver parked awfully or a kid is riding around on a bike in the driveway) while someone is going 80 right behind you. Iām talking about route 2 east heading towards the lights or the exit to Alewife station. Itās so incredibly scary. I donāt know how there hasnāt been major accidents on that stretch of road because for some reason people think 80 mph with less than 1/4 mile before a red light is reasonable.
I feel like most people jam on their brakes there. Youāre flying going 60+ for like 10 miles from the last light in Lincoln then hit the Alewife split and it surprises people that donāt know.
at the same time its kind of insane to have an apartment complex gates directly onto a highway
Exactly! I totally agree with you. The guy who owns the discovery park business development would disagree, though. Heās not a good guy.
That's because the staties do 75-80 without lights on there.
Or Rt3 between 95 and the NH border. Such a straight road should be 65 anyways, and everyone drives 80 for a reason
It used to be a 60mph limit but it got changed when the federal 55mph limit went into effect in the 1970s, but then never got changed back because the staties lobbied against it. Even though the road has been straightened since then and designed for higher speeds, and cars have improved significantly since the 70s, but it 55mph persists because no one wanted to piss off the police union.
I moved to PA where people drive so much slower (and poorer) than Mass. When I drive back up there, the minute I cross into New England, everybody suddenly starts going 20 mph faster. The first time my gf (PA native) and I drove up to Boston, we were on 95, and people were flying past us. She asked me how fast I was going. 85 lol. The entire time we were there she refused to drive. The first time she did drive in Boston, the Columbia Rd rotary freaked her out so bad she ended up having to go around it a few times before she felt comfortable to exit.
And since 2020 no cops enforce anything anyway, so be doubly confident.
Depends. Is there a speed trap nearby?
It's been a *while* since I've seen cops do any traffic enforcement
Maybe not in mass but certainly in rural areas like the stretch of 89 in Connecticut after the mass border is a well known speed trap. I guess property taxes aren't enough to keep the lights on at the police departments in those areas. Ditto for NH. Edit 84.
NH cops just pull MA drivers over fwiw lol
My girlfriend and I were driving up 93. Both doing the same speed mind you. I have nh plates she has ma. Take a wild guess at who got pulled over
Don't have to guess I already know š I was bombing 80 on 16 in NH one time and I see a statie in the median. Guy pulls over the MA car I passed like a minute ago instead of me hahaha
89 doesn't go to Connecticut?
Probably means 84
I've seen a cop pull over left lane campers to let traffic flow at 80. It was awesome to witness.
Drive around south shore for a day. Speed traps on top of speed traps
128 loop is littered with staties, both directions, every day. Even weekends
Drove from 495 to 128 on 90 this morning and saw 4 cars pulled over by staties. I never see them on 128 or 93 tho.
If they start putting up speed cams w $50 bills around city and on highways, I need a gang of delinquents to fuck them up. Not tryna get charged to drive how I should be able to
We need higher speed limits on highways to reflect what the authorities actually deem is an unsafe speed. And we need better enforcement of speed limits on city streets. Itās frankly absurd that going 80 (25 over) on the interstate is as illegal as going 50 (25 over) on a residential street with a playground. One should be legal, the other should involve a license suspension, and yet we treat them the sameāand by that I mean the cops turn a blind eye to both.
Mass DOT employee back in like 2006 came out and said higher limits on the highway would never happen. Speed limits are kept low to generate revenue and as a side effect make policing more convenient. If everyone is traveling over the speed limit you have a valid reason to stop any car.
I used to work with some traffic engineers and they would routinely be frustrated with administrators for one reason or another. But one that came up in conversation was speed limits and how they relate to design. Say you're putting in a new road, the engineers will design the road with an agreed upon project spec of, as an example, 45mph. Width, visibility, grade, curvature, density, etc, etc will all factor into making the road safe at that speed limit at design time. But the municipality ultimately sets the speed limits for their town/city. And they will often look at that shiny new 45mph road and set it to 35mph. Why? Because they all know that as humans we're subject to our perception and people will perceive it as a 45mph road and they can stake a cop out there to nail people doing 45. It's a fucking scam.
This. The unwritten rule is that everybody speeds and police can pull over anyone they like with probable cause. A few of us also will be sacrificed to the gods of revenue.
What, you don't think this whole "the unspoken speed limit is different from the legal speed limit" thing is clear and practical? I agree, highway speeding should legally be different from city speeding.
Look man some people get their kicks by gambling. Some shoplift. Others drive 9 over the limit and think we're pulling a fast one. Let us have this.
Glad I'm not the only one pulling a consistent 9-10 over and feeling good about it!
Iāve been going 80 on route 3 and had a state cop just tailgate me because he wanted to pass and go 90 multiple times..as long youāre driving safe then going 75-80 in the left lane is fine.
Sitting in the left lane is never fine at any speed unless youāre sitting in gridlocked traffic. Move over when youāre done passing!
Think of %s over the limit
Isn't' double the limit a bigger offense, like driving to endanger, hich is a criminal offense not a civil offense. (may vary state to state, but I though it MA that was a thing)
"Watch me for the changes and just try to keep up OK?"
I hate that I got this reference without even thinking.
Ah yes, the Northeastern autobahn
My uncle told me of a Statie he knew who's motto was "78, you're great. 79 -- you're mine." So 78 is the correct answer obviously.
There's like 15 variations of this saying.
Nothing on i95 should be 55mph
None of the interstate highway speed limit signs are serious when they're below 65. Those aren't interstate speeds and everybody knows. Old grannies can drive through Boston with cruise control locked on 75, why can't you?
Itās 85 to me.
Pretty sure it says "GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE LEFT LANE"
If anything IMO these ridiculously low speed limits on highways are actually a source of distraction for drivers. I'm pretty sure a large section of people don't find these limits reasonable, and drive in the 65-70 range on average, but coz that is at least 10 over the limit, some of these drivers have to be on a constant lookout for cops.
I forgot the exact term, but in law there's a term for when lawmakers put a law to a level where most people are in violation of the law. This leads to what's known as Selective Enforcement, which is basically that the police get to decide from just about everyone who they want to punish. which means it's actually a form of injustice, at the end of the day.
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Eh keeping an eye on the road is good. Looking for cops is one part of it. If looking ahead and seeing brake lights means avoiding cops, thatās a win win cause it also means stopping sooner and less accidents. But Iāve learned: if you see a cop, BE ON ALERT. They are liable to do the most unpredictable things out of any of the vehicles in the road.
My rule is be the 3rd fastest State Troopers sometimes come in pairs so they'll go for 1st and 2nd fastest first
Limit? ... pfft, that's a minimum limit and you better not do it in the left lane ... the left is reserverd for those in 'get the fuck out of my way' mode. The rules are simple, please follow them and we'll all get along quite fine.
Even the cops here donāt abide by those speed limits. Not sure why the state doesnāt just up them.
Because theyāre cops ātheyāre above the lawā š£
do cops in any state drive the speed limit?
I'd say 69.
That's "Meters Per Second" or about 123 Mph. Or "Yards per Second" which is 112mph if you are driving American.
My favorite explanation so far
Fuckin' eggheads ovah at MIT.
Itās Massachusetts. The real speed limit is the posted speed limit plus 20
Coming back from Vermont for the eclipse, cops were EVERYWHERE, so I slowed down to a nice 70mph on I-95. Other cars were being total assholes, and I thought: "why aren't cops pulling these guys over?" Then I saw two different high-speed chases with cops flying to catch cars running others off the road - one ended in a crash, the other ended in a semi-truck sprialing off an exit.
My favorite part of road trips is getting back to mass and not worrying about speeding aka driving 82
These signs are just an opening offer, like the housing market, the final offer will be much overā¦
65 and most likely you won't get a ticket. If 75 is your speed, then they say that you are driving to endanger and the courthouse is your next stop.... But if you are my friend, then double it and add 10. It pretty much goes for any speed limit, but I'm not sure where he came up with that. Oh ya, I don't dive in my friends car anymore....
The fact that it's still 55 is a joke.
72? Get your ass in the far right lane.
Every time I leave the house I lose the ability to read speed limit signs, sorry.
55 is for school zones only
Could be 80ā¦or 40ā¦.or any speed in betweenā¦in the same car. Like Iām in the left lane doing 80 and a car comes up fast so I pull over. Then they never pass. Iām not your escort dude!
That straight stretch of 95 that goes through the Newbury wetlands is basically the Autobahn. No cops ever sit there because you could see them from literally a mile away with the gradient of the road and how open it is.
72 is suggested minimum
That should say average speed limit. After sitting in traffic on 93, youāve got to do 120 to get the average back up
It reads ādonāt be a dick: keep up with the car in front of youā
80 is the speed limit
It reads don't block the faster person on the road. And definitely don't do it in the left lane.
Reading this thread I get the impression that some of you might be breaking the law. But that canāt possibly be true because we all know itās the cyclists that are always breaking the law.
There are many laws that are consistently broken in MA. Hope you never did the dirty unmarried - no lie, āWhoever commits fornication shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three months or by a fine of not more than thirty dollars.ā Haha weāre all criminals out here just living life and vibing.
This is the speeder's thread. I like the whole "you go with the flow of traffic" logic. I've seen groups of people try to line up to board an airplane and can't get their shit together, so I doubt a group of people driving whatever speed they want should be determining how fast everyone else should drive.
69
It is 55 meters per second.
I donāt see any numbers ššš¤£š¤£
Ive always assumed it was I55 and the limit was 95. Might explain all the honking when I drive 1Mph on Rt 55.
Get Jimmy Carter to sign it. It would go for big $$ at auction.
I see āSpeed Suggestionā.
72? Must be a static cruising in the middle lane.
People either see 80 or 18, and both of those people are fighting over the passing lane.
I donāt mind going with the flow of traffic, but then any ticket is for 25 over the limit if you *do* get unlucky, and that just sucks extra/feels extra unfair. I always try not to be the first in a āpackā of cars, so that Iām not the first one radarāed.
Saw the same sign on rt. 2, briefly.
Remember speed limits are just a test to see if you can react to a police officer above the speed limit. Or just be between two other cars first.
55 is a good RIGHT lane speed for some of the almost nonexistent on-ramps. But you can take the passing lanes quicker.
It looks like 80 to me
If thatās 128 55=80
I see 88
I interpret it to read "75 for people born before the turn of the millenium, and 65 for everyone else."
Remember during Covid? Those read 90. And youād fly by a statie, your heart would stop then you remember , theyāre not getting out if their carā¦.
Stay to the right and stfu.
92 if youāre north of Beverly
Minimum speed. 72
OP in case you are driving 55 on I-95 please make sure you are on the right lane.
I see 87
It's whatever traffic flow is.
55 minimum is the correct answer.
Whatās that sign? Blue one is for speed.
Yes
Sounds about right
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Um, I think it's actually 80
It reads 90 to me
I see 85
Yeah it reads 92
My newfangled adaptive cruise control occasionally reads signs wrong š¤·āāļø
i see 74 but thats because I know my car is -2mph in terms of accuracy on the sped
That's the speed limit for Grandma when she drives to Sunday Mass.
Yes ;)
Around me itās <100.
155, from my experience.
I thought the blue one with the shield was the speed limit
On 128
I donāt believe everything I read
The speed limit on route 1 depends on the time of day
Looks like 80-90 at least
Looks like 85 to me..
I canāt driveā¦ā¦.55
thatās a cool 75 right there
Close to 3 digits
Just got a ticket last night from a cop clearly just trying to earn money. He said we were going 82, and we definitely were driving mid to low 70s...but the thing is that because everyone drives in the 70s it means he can pull over anyone he wants and issue speeding tickets, and the only thing we could do is argue that the number was wrong. I think the cops like the speed limit being low.
You do realize this sign serves only as a suggestion
Drive faster than 2/3 of ambient traffic and you're making good time. The other 1/3 is Trooper Bait.
Naaahhhh, that's 85
76
What sign?
I got a speeding ticket in my early twenty's on 95 in Waltham, cop says, you know what the speed limit is, I said yeah 65. He says "first thing you were going 78, second it's 55." Yeah that was a big ticket.
It says "SS" for super-speed
In Florida, you go 85, youāre holding up traffic
Iām sure that there a bunch more people who read it as 45 mph based on how often I have to switch lanes just to be able to continue driving at 55 mph.
Lower limit
that says route 128.
75* which means legally you can speed up to 80 without exceeding 5mph over the limit.
First number is definitely an 8
79
Exactly, thatās the minimum for me
At least. Unless youāre in the left lane, then itās 55.
I read 69, but I was also swiping in Tinder, so idk š¤·š½āāļø
I think it means infinity
I came to the Boston area after being stationed in Germany. My first time on 95 (and also 93) I thought I was back on the Autobahn.
Thats why there are people in the left most lane driving 20 mph under the limitā¦.
I thought the I-95 signs were also the speed limit?
Which one of you mf is only going 72?
Nice try copper, I was doing 54
When I was a kid in the mid 80's my dad drove faster than most, between 70-75 on the highway. That's similar to what I drive today, and I'm usually in the far right lane.