Lawmakers who ushered through the change say the new law will make roads safer during storms or construction.
Cars drive down the highways after winter weather went through Dallas on Feb. 2, 2023. A new law allows the state to temporarily change the speed limit on sections of roads and highways because of bad weather, road construction or maintenance., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
The altered speed limit would be in effect only when it’s posted on signs notifying drivers of the change and it can’t be lower than 10 miles under the regular speed limit. Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, sponsored the bill in the Senate, applying his experience from two decades ago as a TxDOT commissioner from 1997 to 2005.
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