State studying increased speed limits on some two-lane roads
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is entering its third year of evaluating the 55 miles per hour speed limit on all two-lane highways in the state. The five-year study is a legislative mandate to look at the speed limits and make recommendations about increasing the speed to 60 mph. Of the roads studied in 2014 and 2015, 1,190 miles were raised to 60 miles per hour and 305 miles remained at 55, according to MnDOT’s speeds limit report to the Legislature released Jan. 15, 2016.
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