Somebody "Splain" North/South Carolina Interstate?

[gwstang]

Paddle faster.... I hear banjo music.

Oh Good Lord, there has only been a couple of times in my 59 years that I have had that thought. We gave our oldest son four acres across the road to build a house. Well, he put in for the rural garbage service that (maybe) comes once a week. They didn't deliver the roller container and after about a month, he asked me if we could go and get one from the headquarters. I told him to hop in the truck and off we went. Got to the town and went off into the backwoods as he was using his phone as a gps. We kept going and going....I mean way way back in the sticks. It got so there only a few scattered, very dilapidated trailers some with ratty looking fences, if you could call them that, around some of them. There were clothes draped about on the sorry looking fences and junk in the yards (these are scattered along a mile or so) and some very sorry looking people laying around the porches. I mean, I doubt if there were a whole set of teeth among the whole clan put together! I looked at the boy and said, "I swear I hear banjo's...paddle faster boy"!!! He started laughing but I noticed he had slipped his .40 cal. out and laid it in his lap. We got to the trash company place right after that and picked up the container. They gave him a month free for picking it up, seems somebody had forgotten to put the order in after he called to get one. I definitely drove faster going back through that area. Man, those trailers had pieces of siding missing and insulation hanging out...I mean it was bad. If somebody had stepped out in the road to stop me, I would have done a 180 and hauled butt the other way...or run over them, maybe! Being stranded there would be a bad nightmare. That was some of the sorriest looking collection of "people", I have ever seen. I don't scare easily, I was "scarret" that day.

 

[Country Geek]

Maximum speed in NY is 65. I think that's because most everyone does 75 anyway. If they raised the speed limit to 70 then those that are doing 75 will do 80. Most local, state, and sheriff's departments don't blink an eye when you go by them up to 10 MPH over the limit. If they did give out tickets for anyone doing any speed over the limit they'd have to hire a few thousand more people. Even if the set their radar for 80 they would very quickly get tired of writing speeding tickets.
I think it's NY States way of keeping everyone at 75 or less.

They may think that but they are wrong. Countless experience shows that raising the limit does not raise the speeds on the road, only makes what people were already doing legal.

Latest example:

With 80 mph zones on I-70, real speeds remain about the same | The Salt Lake Tribune

 

[tractorshopper]

I frequently use I-85. It's 65 from Exit 1 to about Exit 35, then goes to 60 pretty much to Exit 69, then to 70 for only about 10 miles or so, then back to 60 for the rest of the state (like exit 105 or so) if I remember it all correctly. It's nice fresh paved 2 lane until exit 19, then goes to 3 lane until after about exit 78 or so, then back to 2 lane. The southern portion is in much better shape. It's get rougher in Greenville area, but looks like they may repave it soon. After Spartanburg area, where it goes back to 2 lane, it is very rough for a while and could really use some work. Luckily, I mostly don't go past Spartanburg nearly as often. I really wish they would widen the entire thing to 3 lanes since there is so much traffic. This is the road from Atlanta to Charlotte and is very heavily used.

 

[gwstang]

Wow, just got back last night at 9 PM. Good Lord that is a long way for my tail bone to ride. Told the red head that she could get a plane ticket next time. She has flown there before, but thought it would be good "quality" time for us to ride together. Dang, just how much quality time does a woman need anyway...been married 38 years??? Do you know how aggravating a red headed woman can get after about 600 miles??? I just made sure that I aggravated her before she could aggravate me...lol...that shut her up for about 50 miles at a time. ha! BTW, somebody needs to build a bypass to bypass the bypass around Atlanta! That is the awfullest place to go through at 5-7 pm that I have ever seen. More time spent sitting on the interstate I85 then moving. Lots of rain too. Too many idiots playing bumper cars and whipping in and out of lanes, scared me to heck.
I am so thankful that I live way out in the sticks! Thank You Lord for getting us home safely! :thumbsup:

South Carolina wins hands down the roughest roads of four states.

 

[ruffdog]

They may think that but they are wrong. Countless experience shows that raising the limit does not raise the speeds on the road, only makes what people were already doing legal.

Not the case here. Truck drivers are saying it is crazy here now that we are at 70. The plan was to double the amount of lanes but there is a lack of funds. Instead, raise the speed limit.

 

[cat fever]

I have to admit traveling around can be frustrating with the different speed limits. Here in Utah the rural interstate speed limit is 80 mph. Even right through SLC the limit is 70 mph.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

If South Carolina is such a pain in the butt, stay in Alabama. Problem solved...

 

[RickB]

If South Carolina is such a pain in the butt, stay in Alabama. Problem solved...

:drink: Best answer yet!