Motorhome driver sentenced in fatal accident

Johno02 wrote:
Has anyone else ever noticed that in driving south from Louisville on I-65, Average traffic speed is just a bit over the limit. However, approaching Nashville, just as traffic starts to pick up, the driving speed increases at least 10 MPH, and sometimes a lot more. As you get a bit further in, and traffic increases even more, speeds run 10-15 MPH above the speed limits. Then, about the time you get to the I-24 intersection, speed drops almost to a stop. And there has been construction in that area for at least 40 years. And, there is a very narrow railroad overpass, where the lanes are very narrow, and no space on either side. It's a rule there that when the traffic gets worse, go faster to get out of it quicker! And most of us got our drivers license by mail from Sears-Roebuck.

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It not just I-65 over that stretch of road you've indicated, I think it's everywhere! When driving open road, traffic runs about 5 mph over the speed limit on the interstate, very few pass, and you pass very few. (at least in my neck of the woods). But when getting closer to suburbia, traffic gets heavier, and speed increases even faster!

I've seen this in cities also. When traffic is thinned out, (take 116th street or 146th in Fishers-Carmel, Indiana), and traffic is prety much the speed limit. Let rush hour hit, and everyone runs MUCH MUCH faster than the posted speed limit as if that speeding will get them to next stop light faster!

It IS an interesting phenomena!