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    The National Maximum Speed Limit (NMSL) was a provision of the federal government of the United States 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act that...
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    (56 km/h) is the maximum speed limit. Hawaii was the last state to raise its maximum speed limit after the National Maximum Speed Law was repealed in 1995...
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    A speed limit is the limit of speed allowed by law for road vehicles, usually the maximum speed allowed. Occasionally, there is a minimum speed limit...
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    oil crisis, Congress enacted the National Maximum Speed Law that created the universal 55 miles per hour (89 km/h) speed limit. States had to agree to the...
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  • (89 km/h) speed limit, which was the highest permissible speed limit in the United States at the time due to the National Maximum Speed Law enacted in...
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  • constellation Sculptor The highest speed limit allowed in the United States between 1974 and 1986 per the National Maximum Speed Law Highway 55, several roads...
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  • NMSL may refer to: National Maximum Speed Law, a speed limit applied throughout the United States between 1974 and 1995 NMSL (Chinese: 你妈死了; pinyin: nǐmāsǐle;...
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  • Cadillac, an album by Andrew W.K. In the United States, the National Maximum Speed Law prohibited speed limits higher than 55 miles per hour (90 km/h) from 1974...
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    Speed limits on road traffic, as used in most countries, set the legal maximum speed at which vehicles may travel on a given stretch of road. Speed limits...
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  • speed or 85th percentile rule is a traffic engineering standard used to set the speed limit for automobiles on a public roadway. It refers to a speed...
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    Road speed limits in the United Kingdom are used to define the maximum legal speed (which may be variable) for vehicles using public roads in the UK....
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    1914, Act No. 2389 was passed into law, providing amendments to Act No. 2159. These amendments added maximum speed limits for all motor vehicles in certain...
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  • founded in 1982 in opposition to the 55 mph National Maximum Speed Law, which was their chief cause until the law's repeal in 1995. The NMA continues to fight...
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    speed limit was increased on September 30, 1963, in concert with other Ohio rural Interstates to 70 mph (110 km/h). Due to the National Maximum Speed...
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  • Snakes Looks like two snakes Speed Limit 55 MPH, the maximum speed limit in the US in the National Maximum Speed Law era 54 Colt 45 The gun, and the...
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    Traffic Act of 28 May 1934 imposed the first nationwide speed limit: 60 km/h (37 mph) maximum in urban areas, but no limit on rural highways or autobahns...
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    the old National Maximum Speed Law (NMSL). Originally passed in 1973, the NMSL was amended in 1987 to permit 65-mile-per-hour (105 km/h) speed limits on...
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    Speed limits in India vary by state and vehicle type. In April 2018, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways fixed the maximum speed limit on...
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  • to the National Maximum Speed Law provision of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, which (at the time) prohibited speed limits higher than...
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    during the time of the newly imposed 55 mph (89 km/h) speed limit set by the National Maximum Speed Law. The Hornet X hatchback was modified with a 401 cu in...
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  • statutory maximum speed limits, in kilometres per hour, on roads in each category. Posted speed limits may differ significantly from the statutory speed limit...
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    these have maximum heights of 14', with the exception of Colorado and Nebraska, which have a maximum height of 14'6". Alaska has a maximum height of 15'...
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  • Transportation policy of the United States (category United States transportation law)
    expansion in the Federal-Aid Highway Acts of 1954 and 1956. The National Maximum Speed Law was enacted in 1974 and would not be repealed until 1995. The...
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  • on the effects of green belts on residential property, and the National Maximum Speed Law. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Singell earned his economics degree...
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    in the speed limit (which had been 70 miles per hour (110 km/h)) was made as U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the National Maximum Speed Law. The result...
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    only after a change in the National Maximum Speed Law, when state legislators were given the authority to raise the speed limits on rural Interstate Highways...
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  • passed a policy limiting the driving speed to 55 mph on America’s freeways under the National Maximum Speed Law. The policy objective was to reduce gasoline...
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    speed of 35 mph (56 km/h) was established in 1959; it was raised to 40 mph (64 km/h) in 1965. With the passage of the 1974 National Maximum Speed Law...
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    Canada, low-speed vehicle (LSV) regulations allow relaxed design and registration laws for four-wheel vehicles that have a maximum capable speed of about...
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    diesel, electric, or gasoline powered motor engines, as well as their maximum design speed and vehicle weight. Electric motor vehicles, including electric cars...
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