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While there are many benefits to lowering the max highway speed to 55mph I think the only way to "sell" it to those voting would be from an energy conservation/economical standpoint. I doubt many "normal" everyday drivers are going to agree to 55mph because it is safer.
Here's something interesting happening in New Hampshire and soon in many other states...some towns have adopted 4 day workweeks for town/state employees to reduce work commutes by 1 day a week. Instead of working five 8 hour days they are now working four 10 hour days. Same commute to work just done one time less each week. Not a bad idea I think. If an average commute is 20 miles (10 miles both ways) then over the course of the year each commuter is saving 1000 miles of driving (based on 20 mpg at $4/gallon that's about $200 and 50 gallons of gas each commuter saves every year) and there's less traffic on the road so it's an easier commute. 100 people on this plan saves $20,000 and 5000 gallons of gas.
Or...we could adopt the China Olympics plan and only allow odd number license plates to drive on Mon, Wed, Fri and even number plates on Tue, Thur, Sat. Sunday all cars can drive.
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