{"id":5987,"date":"2015-04-08T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2015-04-07T12:55:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T17:55:50","slug":"south-dakota-raises-interstate-speed-limit-to-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/south-dakota-raises-interstate-speed-limit-to-80\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota raises interstate speed limit to 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travelers with lead feet leaving western Iowa have something to celebrate: Speed limits on I-29 and I-90 in South Dakota <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keloland.com\/newsdetail.cfm\/easter-weekend-in-the-fast-lane\/?id=178189\">were raised to 80 mph<\/a>\u00a0one week ago. That includes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksfy.com\/home\/headlines\/New-South-Dakota-speed-limit-could-cost-drivers-across-state-lines-298390601.html\">space between Sioux Falls and Minnesota<\/a>, where it will go 65-80-70 in the span of about 12 miles. On I-29, Sioux City gets in the way of an abrupt high-speed transition, especially with all the construction right now.<\/p>\n<p>Not everybody (see <a href=\"http:\/\/rapidcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/claims-about-stats-in-other-mph-states-gloss-over-reality\/article_86b87ec2-3b80-5e6e-abfd-0e4bede4fb4a.html \">this <em>Rapid City Journal<\/em> story<\/a>) is on board with the change, which made South Dakota the fifth state with an 80-mph limit, and came in conjunction with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchellrepublic.com\/news\/state\/3713814-speed-limits-i-90-i-29-south-dakota-rise-80-mph\">6-cent increase in the state&#8217;s gas tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, the speed limit heading west on I-80 in Nebraska jumps to 75 after NE 370, while on the opposite side of Iowa, Wisconsin still sets a maximum of 65 everywhere.\u00a0(Despite popular opinion, 80 is not the limit on I-80 in Iowa. At least, not yet.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelers with lead feet leaving western Iowa have something to celebrate: Speed limits on I-29 and I-90 in South Dakota were raised to 80 mph\u00a0one week ago. That includes the space between Sioux Falls and Minnesota, where it will go &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/south-dakota-raises-interstate-speed-limit-to-80\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","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=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5990,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}