Bill to increase Florida speed limits clears first committee,... | www.mypalmbeachpost.com

This news is what I shared yesterday about the bill coming out of the transportation committee. It won't be clear sailing after this. The measure is getting some push-back. Click title for link to article. Here is some of the argument against.

Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, is a co-sponsor and called it “a common sense approach to raising speed limits.”
But Sen. Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa, the lone vote against the measure, called it a step in the direction of turning Florida highways into the speed-limit free German Autobahn.
“I hope it doesn’t have a clean sail, I’ll be fighting it all the way,” Joyner said, adding, “People now don’t give you an inch. People now drive 5 or 6 miles over the speed limit. Now you’re going to push it up to 80.”