Texas Highway 130 to Have 85 MPH Speed Limit

Texas State Highway 130 is being constructed between San Antonio and Austin.

Plans are for part of the highway to have a speed limit of eighty-five miles per hour.

Texas is already only one of two states that have a limit of eighty mph, in most places.

Last year the Texas Legislature passed a law allowing for the increased speed limit, on newly constructed roads.

With the new limit, the stretch of 130 would become the highway with the second highest posted speed limit, in the world.

Only parts of Poland have higher ones, with a posted limit of one hundred and forty kilometers an hour, or about eighty-six mph.