North Dakota Becomes 9th State to Adopt an 80-MPH Speed Limit – IOTW Report

North Dakota Becomes 9th State to Adopt an 80-MPH Speed Limit

Saturday, 10 May 2025, 15:00 Claudia Uncategorized 25

Car and Driver –

  • North Dakota is raising the maximum speed limit on some multilane highways to 80 mph.
  • At the same time, the state is also implementing higher speeding fines.
  • The move aligns North Dakota with its neighboring states, except for Minnesota.

Fines for speeding in North Dakota are not exactly draconian: driving 35 mph in a 25-mph zone will set you back $10. Recognizing that low fines aren’t much of a deterrent, lawmakers are now simultaneously raising minimum speeding fines and also the state’s maximum speed limit.

Read the rest HERE.

h/t Jason

25 Comments on North Dakota Becomes 9th State to Adopt an 80-MPH Speed Limit

  7. The 55 mph speed limit, signed by Nixon, was specifically to save fuel, not for safety reasons. Of course the feds can’t mandate state speed limits… but they can withhold funds, which is why every state complied. I think it was Montana that famously had a very low fine for speeding (although it still had higher fines for dangerous driving, including very high speeds), a fine so low that the cost of enforcement per ticket was greater than the fine. And they just wrote enough tickets to satisfy the feds.
    The limit was raised to 65 in 1987 and the ‘Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act’ was repealed in 1995.

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  10. I drove like the speed limit was 95 in GA when I was 17. That’s as fast as the Honda 4 banger would go and thankfully the super speeder thing wasn’t a thing. I had a state trooper considering to try to kick my ass once, he was fat and I was young and very scrappy. Thankfully I just mailed in the fine.

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  11. The speed limit on I-90 in Montana goes up to 80 mph once you get past Superior, Mt. almost to Missoula and then slows down to 65 thru Missoula and kicks up to 80 for the most part again just past Missoula all the way to N. Dakota. I would usually drive 85 when I was on that stretch of I-90 and still have other drivers pass by me like I was standing still. I also noticed that there weren’t a lot of state cops on that stretch of I-90 except for occasional emphasis patrols.

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  15. Let’s see if this makes it through the spam filter…


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    ║ Speed Limit - 186,000 Mi/Sec ║
    ║ ..It's not just a good idea..║
    ║ ....... It's the LAW ....... ║
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  16. Texans have had it good for quite a while now. Interstates 10 and 20 have stretches with a speed limit of 80 MPH, and Texas 130 (a toll road) has a limit of 85 MPH. Wheeeee!

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  17. First time I went to Texas there was no speed limit that I knew of on Rt 20 and 10… I was going 110MPH and still getting passed! It is so wide open that you get no real sense of speed and go with the flow. Put the pedal to the metal and take it for a top end blast! Never got arrested and it was a rental so I just drive it like I stole it!!

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  18. 1973: we are at peak oil production. There’s only so much oil in the world.

    Jimmy Carter: 55 mph highway speed limits. No more muscle cars! Pintos, Mustang II, gremlins, Chevette

    I wonder if they were lying to us over 50 years ago…

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  19. Dadof4
    Saturday, 10 May 2025, 19:49 at 7:49 pm
    “1973: we are at peak oil production. There’s only so much oil in the world.

    Jimmy Carter: 55 mph highway speed limits. No more muscle cars! Pintos, Mustang II, gremlins, Chevette”

    …I didnt have it in ’73, but I had a ’73 Olds Cutlass Supreme 2 door, 350, 4 bbl., dual exhaust, NONE of those faggy catalytic converters, and the retarded A.I.R pump thing neutered LONG before I got it.

    …you werent saving no gas in THAT thing, but you could sure as hell save some TIME…

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  20. Dadof4
    Saturday, 10 May 2025, 19:49 at 7:49 pm

    “Pintos, Mustang II, gremlins, Chevette”

    …but a Pinto had its uses. I took my driver’s test in my friend’s mom’s Pinto, which made the whole “Parallel Parking” part much, MUCH easier…

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  21. Driving 55 between Spokane and Seattle on I-90 was slow going especially past Ritzville and then past Moses Lake with nothing but endless sagebrush for the most part and down across the Vantage bridge on the Columbia River to Ellensburg and then only 2 hrs. more to Seattle at 55. My 61 VW microbus was only capable of going 60 and that was before the damned double nickel speed limit was implemented nationwide about 1973 or so. It could’ve been worse, the speed limit during World War 2 was 35 mph.

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  24. @ SNS In 1979 I bought a 1969 Chrysler New Yorker. 4 door land yacht, 440 cu. in.4 bbl Holley, power everything. I loved that car. Just had to stop at nearly every gas station.

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