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[Shockeye]

I-75 Construction Sign Surprises Motorists
Message States Speed Limit '100 MPH'

POSTED: 1:03 pm EDT April 7, 2005

VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Drivers on southbound Interstate 75 got a surprise Thursday morning from a construction message board.

The board, which for weeks had been alerting drivers in Genesee County near Clio that construction starts this month, instead greeted them with the message: "speed limit 100 mph go go go."

"We got a call from the state police before 5 this morning (Thursday) and we took care of it," Bill Shreck, regional spokesman for the Michigan Department of Transportation, told The Flint Journal. "We weren't amused."

The speed limit in the area is 70 mph, Shreck said. The sign was the only MDOT message board affected.

The message boards are controlled remotely by a computer through a subcontractor, Shreck said. That company is looking into who changed the board and how.

"We know it wasn't a purposeful act by the contractor, but we don't know if it was hacked into or if it was a disgruntled employee or what," Shreck said.

[Strazos]

Wow, they have 70 mph limits in Michigan? Sweet.

Most we get in NJ is 65, and those are on toll roads, and cops camp them like we're gonna drop fucking Rubicite.

[schild]

Montana goes up to 85mph.

[Strazos]

No Fair.

[Polysorbate80]

Montana goes up to 85mph.

Unless that's a recent change(?) it's 75mph.

Used to be *no* daytime speed limit, except for 'reasonable and prudent'--basically, just use your fucking noodle and don't be a psycho jackass.  And fatalities were much lower than with the new limit...go figure.