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This map has been mentioned by a media organization: Ewinger, James (December 20, 2010). "Ohio Turnpike Commission votes to raise toll road's speed limit to 70 mph". Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retrieved December 20, 2010. Wikipedia has a map and chart of state speed limits across the United States.

Hey, I think the appearance of Texas is kind of deceptive. The 80 mph limits are only available in statutorily-specified regions of the state. Is it possible to break it down by county? Nova SS 02:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I modified the graphic to show how little of Texas is really affected by >70 mph limits. I also showed which areas cannot have limits higher than 65 due to environmental speed limits. It sure would be nice if there was an automated way of producing these graphics. Nova SS 13:40, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. I didn't know what the county breakdown of Texas was, thanks. --Shadowlink1014 22:02, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

At least one county, Duval County, is missing from the 75 mph map. Its population is 7 persons per sq mile and 75 mph is posted on US 59 through the county (except in the vicinity of Freer). Other counties may be missing; please verify. lordsutch (talk) 05:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded a new version of the map with Duval County colored for 75 mph. lordsutch (talk) 06:49, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed the color for 60 mph (which only affects Hawaii), because it is indistinguishable to the 80 mph color to a person with red-green color blindness (such as myself). 1 in 10 people have it, although many don't know they do... --Shadowlink1014 22:17, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Works for me, but I think as a result the caption is misleading where it says the "darkest" red color is Hawaii; it looks to me like this is now the lightest red color. I'll change the caption.

That's an important point, I was going to ask why that was done, because the scale now becomes unnatural to non-color-blind people like me, who see dark pink vs dark red as the strongest opposition. I agree this is a lesser evil, but shouldn't we go towards a one-color map (dark X vs light X), or perhaps use another color polarity than the red-green one ? What do other color-blindness-aware sites/publications do ? --FvdP (talk) 21:05, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sections of the I-15 in Utah have been raised to 80 mph. The map should be changed to reflect that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CKBrown1000 (talk • contribs) 22:47, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The map looks bad in my opinion with Texas having speed limit breakdown by county. The map should should be changed to the 80 mph color. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enigma229 (talk • contribs) 20:19, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

But if they change the color of the entire state of Texas to 80, then it'll be way off since a speed limit 80 is along maybe 1% of the state's interstate highway system. All of I-35 between the DFW area and Oklahoma is max 70 with a nighttime speed limit of 65. Same with I-20 east of DFW metroplex to Louisiana. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkdenver1 (talk • contribs) 03:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I second that we should move all of Texas to 80mph. Utah has only a few miles at 80mph, and we have 80mph shown for the whole state. Maine, Louisiana, and Ohio have segments of one highway each at 75, 75, and 70 respectively, and that is how their highway speed is shown. Furthermore, we don't have any other state broken down by county or geographic region. We don't have New York City counties listed as 50 or Orange County, California listed as 65. We don't have counties in Pennsylvania shown as 55 or the non-Oahu islands in Hawaii listed as 45. I agree that having the whole state as 80mph doesn't provide the most information, but there are too many special cases to reasonably and consistently do this level of detail and still have a usable map. A county-by-county map might be appropriate on a "Speed limits in Texas" article (any takers for creating this article? anyone?), but not on a nationwide Speed Limit article. We should make all of Texas 80mph. Ua747sp (talk) 13:22, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The map has been updated to reflect higher speed limits in Ohio and Texas. --Pgp688 (talk) 23:20, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please be sure to change Kansas' coloring no earlier than 0500 UTC on 7/1/11 to reflect the change from 70 to 75 on controlled-access freeways. DavidSteinle (talk) 03:23, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oklahoma should be changed to reflect a 70mph speed limit. The only parts of the state that are 75 are on the turnpikes such as I-44 and US 412. Otherwise I-35 and I-40 are at 70 from border to border. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkdenver1 (talk • contribs) 3:04, August 4, 2011

Add I-49 for Saint Landry through Desoto for 75MPH. Saint Martin for I-10 is 60 MPH. 'Mcdonaat → 22:24, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As I've stated before here, we should change Texas to be one color. We don't break down other states by county, and doing so would be ridiculous. We wouldn't want to have all counties without Interstates in New York be shown as 55mph or all non-Oahu islands in Hawaii would be 45mph. For consistency, let's just make Texas 85mph. Ua747sp (talk) 17:14, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like the county-by-county map for Texas, but if it's going to be there, it should at least be accurate. Here are corrections that need to be made:

Marked as 65, should be 70: Dallas, Denton, Collin - all have 70 mph on toll roads, Denton will likely be 75 soon due to FM 51, Tarrant and Johnson will change to 70 next year with the opening of a toll road

Marked as 75, should be 70: Somervell, Wood, Camp, Matagorda, Calhoun, Star, and Kinney Counties were left out when 75 mph speed zones were established, this appears to be permanent - the Austin, San Antonio, and Tyler districts have not yet had district-wide speed limit increases, so there are other counties in those areas, but most or all of those will change

Marked as 80, should be 85: Travis

An accurate map would look even stranger than this one, and may convince the map makers to make the whole state one color. Regardless of that, it should be correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.93.178.180 (talk) 23:48, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]