American Autobahn? California Proposes Removing Speed Limits On Two Highways

It's about time. Autobahns across America!

While I defer to my California colleagues, when was the last time California passed a law that wasn't a buzz kill for car enthusiasts, restrictive and constraining in nature. There has to be a catch.

you have to drive through stockton to bakersfield...

Bravo Sir, Bravo!

It seems that there is one Republican who is not an assh*le after all.

It will never pass with the liberals who run California...higher speeds means more energy use.

That'll be the day...

I would pay extra tax money for this!

Pipe dream! Adding one lane each direction on I5 and I99 ? It will take tens of billions of dollars to add those lanes. Most of the 240 miles between Stockton and Bakersfield is only 2 lanes per direction. If most truck traffic is limited to I99 only, I5 can be an autobahn today. At low traffic it only takes 3 hours or less to traverse that stretch. Speed enforcement is virtually nonexistent. The main traffic impedance are the trucks trying to pass each other at 60mph and blocking the left lane.

Rarely do I agree with you. Hell has frozen over. The 99 is a dangerous freeway for most of its miles. Spending the money to elevate it to Interstate 9--a LONG-delayed project--solely for the sake of safety would make more sense than adding a speedway.

PS If anything Highway 58 needs to be widened to two lanes in both directions for its entire span over a speedway.

Thankfully the fascist-socialists in Sacramento hate any road work.

Do it!

It'll never happen. Libs will kill that in a heartbeat. They would love to ban ICE cars totally.

"California Proposes Removing Speed Limits On Two Highways"

HUH? California did not propose this. ONE state senator did.

Your headline is grossly misleading.

The 99 is a deadly highway, but the I-5 through the center of California already travels at 80mph, so just post that speed limit.

i might even have driven faster than that once... there is no enforcement because even cops realize the hell of that stretch of road.

You will still have that one jackass who stays in the left lane pegged at 65, you flash the high beams and won't move over to the right, and still gives you the dirty look when they are in the wrong.