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Legislation to increase the speed limit on rural stretches of interstates and highways in Michigan hit a snag in the state House Wednesday.
The measures were a few votes shy of passing.
State Representative Brad Jacobsen, R-Oxford, is the lead sponsor of the bills and says allowing the speed limit to go up to 80 miles an hour on newly constructed interstates was a hang up.
He’s received feedback from some lawmakers who think 80 is way too fast, so he may take that out of the bill but isn’t positive that’s the best route to go.
Under the bill, people could drive 75 miles an hour on rural interstates and 60 miles an hour on rural highways.
Speed limits on gravel roads in southeast Michigan would also be reduced from 55 miles an hour to 45 miles an hour, with the option for communities to drop it to 35.
Jacobsen hopes to call the bills for a vote again in a week or two.
