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Western painting new speed limit sign, convinced that next week by President Clinton signed, what his friends and enemies “pedal-to-the-metal.”

If this treaty enters into force, the National Highway System designation of the federal law would remove control of speed limits, first imposed fuel as a means of winning in 1974.

Without federal budget, Montana is automatically America’s “highway” status. How many drivers in Germany by major highways, drivers in Montana interstates on the face of every day is not time to speed limits, because she screamed by Big Sky Country.

A generation of state legislators in the West has reacted violently to the introduction of the maximum speed of the National Institute of the nation maximum speed to 55 mph. States that do not comply ran the risk of losing highway money. During 1987, we read had the chance to raise the ceiling to 65 km / h on interstates in rural areas.

The dream to follow a regime of the race over vast green spaces, the state legislature, in the west accepted speed limits, which take effect only if the Confederation borders have been lifted. In Montana, lawmakers voted to restore a pre-1974 set by law, that motorists should drive at a rate reasonable and prudent. ”

Mr. Clinton has objected to the provision speed limit and other parts of the highway bill, but it is feared, to sign it.

By its signature, maximum speed limits of 75 mph directly to Kansas, Nevada and Wyoming, and 70 km / h in California, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas. Colorado’s legislative debate, a proposal to increase to a maximum of 75 km / h

In the East overloaded has not adopted any measures were taken. In certain countries in Eastern Europe, like New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, speed limits can not be amended in the State Legislature. Others, like Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, require action committees of public transport.

In the Rocky Mountain west, some have long argued that geography and population density of light provide a great fast lane.

“We have fewer people in this state that throughout the city of Honolulu, and three times as many cows as human beings,” said Andrew Malcolm, a spokesman Dir of Montana, Marc Racicot And provides a justification for opening up speed limits. “Public opinion is strongly in favour of old borders,” he added, referring to the state constitution-1974 before the law.

Security and insurance companies are to recommend to Mr. Clinton to veto the highway bill, which would be $ 6.5 billion in aid for states and the costs of a number of other Federal Regulations, as a motorcycle helmet, a ban on Billboard highways and a theatrical number of rules under the truck.

Presses M. Clinton, a security group, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, recalled that his father died in a car accident. “We can not repeal the law of physics,” said Katherine Hutt, a spokesman for the Washington advocacy group. “Physics in effect doubling every 10 miles an hour on the current speed limit. ”

Realizing that 4694 people died on Interstate outages during the past year, the group said: “The Congress has examined the account of a highway for the first time in history, more ‘ To kill Americans, as it saves. ”

Monday, the consumer advocate Ralph Nader implored President, to view, please, what is at issue - between 6000 and 7000 more deaths each year, tens of thousands wounded, disable, $ 19 billion in the field of public health and costs because a higher insurance rates higher worker compensation premiums, plus air pollution, more imported oil and more risks on the highway putting out of the police. ”

Within five years after Congress raised rural speed limits to 65 km / h, deaths rose 30 percent on routes where speed limits have been collected, according to a study by the Federal Department of Transportation, said Speed contributes to one third of all highway deaths.

East favorable to the security’m wondering how the pilot of Flight Montana prices next month when they arrive on a stray cow or a patch of ice while traveling 100 km / h, the deadliest of the Interstate east in Montana, on I-90 in Silver Bow County, Computer-Aided a case study of death intergovernmental this month Hearst newspaper. From 1990 to 1994, measured in the study, the number of fatal breakdowns per 100 million kilometres travelled.

Los Angeles County had the highest number of fatal blockages, 395 in the country over the past five years. But Los Angeles-.391 rate of fatal breakdowns per 100 million kilometres, was well below the 6.2 per 100 million miles on I-90 in Silver Bow County.

Between rural Utah, New Mexico and Texas are not far behind. Alaska was the biggest drop deadly in the country. The national quota fell to 1.8 in 1993 to 2.8 in 1982.

In a survey in the past defenders for April Highway Safety and automobiles, 64 percent of respondents strongly against increasing the maximum allowable speed of 65 km / h between Western Although the legislature has been a force National for the abolition of speed limits, survey respondents in the West and Middle West against increasing the maximum speed allowed by the majority something more than the national average - 66 percent and 67.5 percent .

With 100 m.p.h. on the horizon, a panel of security experts Montana, last week invited the State to limit to 70 km / h and a fine of $ 25 for anything that is up.

Montana’s speeding ticket of $ 5 was officially a “ticket to energy conservation, digging in Washington’s efforts for national representation a speed limit than gasoline-saving action.

With the next legislative session, Montana is not expected before January 1997, Dir Racicot said he did not intend to a special meeting to discuss the maximum speed allowed.

Not all Westerners are enthusiastic about the idea of the open coil.

Utah should at least their experience of safety on the highway speed reduced for good speed right, “The New DESERET Salt Lake City editorialized the last week.” Ie speed relatively sparsely populated , Rural, but low limits along highways, near large cities. In Texas, The Dallas Morning News editorial said: “the repeal of the speed limit is irresponsible.”

But the thirst for speed remains strong for modern drivers such as USA want to play in modern American employees.

Last February, Andrew W. Warner, a computer science student at the University of Vanderbilt, president of the World Wide Web Speed Trap Chancery, a state-by-state listing on the Internet of police radar zones. The firm went to 3,200 entries. And since its inception, Mr. Warner reports, about 2.5 million people have on them.