Brought to the floor by Senator John Moorlach of Orange County, SB-319 would direct the state's Department of Transportation to build two unlimited speed lanes on each side of Interstate 5 and State Route 99, the main north-south arteries linking cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. The sections of the roadways in question run straight through the supremely flat Central Valley, making for ideal high-speed driving conditions.
Perhaps paradoxically, California's answer to the German autobahn would be paid for by the state's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The text of SB-319 points out that the recent collapse of California's ambitious plan for a bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco, which was originally intended to trace the same route as the proposed unlimited speed lanes, has left residents without "access to high-speed, unabated transportation across the state."
http://www.thedrive.com/news/26554/california-might-add-lanes-with-no-speed-limits-to-major-highways
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 20 2019, @04:23PM
Let us all remember, that if we have a high top speed limit, we also need a modest low speed limit. Those have changed over the years, from locality to locality. I've seen 50 posted as a the minimum speed, I've seen 35. Rule of thumb, I think, is that the lower speed limit should be about half of the upper speed limit, absolute minimum. If the top speed is 100, no one needs to be dragging ass at anything less than 50, and even that is rather low.