{"id":16341,"date":"2026-07-06T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16341"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:12:36","slug":"or-until-the-president-determines-there-is-no-longer-an-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/or-until-the-president-determines-there-is-no-longer-an-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Or until the president determines there is no longer an energy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Legislation lowering the state\u2019s speed limit to 55 miles an hour cleared its final legislative hurdle today and was sent to Gov. Robert D. Ray for his signature. &#8230; The bill will remain in effect until July 1, 1975, or until the President determines there is no longer an energy crisis. \u2014 UPI in Ames Tribune, 2\/6\/74<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The top half of the Feb. 28, 1974, issue of the<em> Grundy Register<\/em> had two photos that said it all: a hand-written &#8220;Out of Gas&#8221; sign from a station in Grundy Center, and Iowa Highway Commission workers putting a panel over a double sign on IA 14 that changed &#8220;Speed Limit 70 \/ Trucks 55&#8221; to &#8220;Speed Limit 55.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seventy. On two-lane roads. With cars the size of boats. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 52 years later, now we have a speed limit of 60 on two-lane roads but 65 on many miles of four-lane roads including controlled-access freeways. Any chance this can get fixed next session?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation lowering the state\u2019s speed limit to 55 miles an hour cleared its final legislative hurdle today and was sent to Gov. Robert D. Ray for his signature. &#8230; The bill will remain in effect until July 1, 1975, or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/or-until-the-president-determines-there-is-no-longer-an-energy-crisis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16343,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341\/revisions\/16343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}