Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools, and a busy park that hosts numerous youth ...

Some states -- with a nudge from the federal government -- are seeking to modify if not replace a widely accepted concept when setting guidelines for how local engineers should decide what speed limit ...

Drivers set the speed The concept assumes that a road's safest speed is the one most vehicles travel — neither too high nor too low. If drivers think the speed limit should be raised, they can simply ...

Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools and a busy park that hosts numerous youth ...

This is a stretch of divided highway in northern Virginia, two lanes on each side of a wide median entering a gentle downhill curve. The far two lanes (in shade) are the ones I am interested in. As ...