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Wednesday, October 8, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Legislators may support 65 mph
By KAREN SAMELSON
Staff writer
Kansas motorists might be able to drive 65 mph on the interstate legally if Congress gives the Kansas Legislature a say in the matter, local legislators predict.
"If Congress passes it, there's no question that it'll speed through the Kansas Legislature," State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said yesterday.
The U.S. Senate recently passed a federal highway funding bill that would permit states to increase the speed limit by 10 mph on rural interstate highways. Such highways are defined as being outside urban areas with populations of more than 50,000
The U.S. House version does not contain a provision to allow states to increase the speed limit, and a conference committee is trying to work out the differences.
If Congress approves such a bill, the Kansas Department of Transportation would study rural interstate highways and would make a recommendation to the governor, said Sam Van Leeuwen, the department's public information officer.
The current wording of the U.S. Senate bill makes it unnecessary for the Kansas Legislature to vote on the measure, Van Leeuwen said.
When the Legislature lowered the speed limit to 55 mph in 1974, it included a provision to allow the governor to raise the speed the limit if the federal government permitted, he said.
However, if a vote is required, the Legislature probably would approve such a measure, elected officials predicted.
"I think there is a lot of support for it in the Kansas Legislature," said State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence.
She said that similar bills had been introduced in the Legislature in past years and that she expected that another would be introduced if Congress passed the current bill.
In 1985, the Kansas Senate passed a bill that would change the speed limit if the federal government permitted it, but it died in a House committee, Winter said.
Branson said she might support a bill raising the speed limit to 60 mph if it were enforced but that otherwise it would be disastrous.
"If the speed limit is increased, we can expect the fatality rate to increase sharply again," she said.
State records show that 623 people died in Kansas traffic accidents in
1973, compared with 519 in 1974. Enforcement of the 55 mph speed limit began April 1, 1974, Van Leeuwen said.
In 1985, 485 people died in Kansas traffic accidents. Of those deaths, 18, or 3.7 percent, occurred on urban interstate highways and 29, or 5.9 percent, were on rural interstate highways.
Branson expressed concern that changing the speed limit would encourage drivers to go faster than 65 mph.
Winter disagree, saying the number of fatalities probably wouldn't increase drastically because many people already were driving 65 mph.
However, if a speed limit change led to an increase in fatalities, he said, the measure should be re-evaluated.
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