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Posted by: Renee Stetzer, pedestrian safety advocate and blogger at RocVille.com
All across the country, state legislatures are raising speed limits on roadways 
. I think the highest I’ve read about is a tollway in Texas, which is taking on the Autobahn with an 85 mph limit. Highways are getting faster it seems. New York City, however, has been pushing for the authority to lower speed limits on its streets. And in June, the New York State legislature passed a bill to let NYC lower its default limit to 25mph (from the default of 30 mph). Lowering default speed limits on its 6000 miles of roads is part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024…