Transportation
The Fastest Road in America
Texas bets drivers will pay more than $5 to drive 5 mph faster between San Antonio and Austin.
Want people to pay to drive on your toll road? Let them drive really fast.
That's the logic in Texas, where the state Department of Transportation is planning to institute an 85-mile-per-hour speed limit on a new section of highway currently being built to divert some traffic off heavily-used Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin. This new section of State Highway 130 would be the fastest road in the Western Hemisphere, as WOAI reports.