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[quote="Guest"]Statutorily it can actually be whatever the engineering study reveals (which was an 85th percentile speed of around 55 mph); the statute specifically recommends that speed limits be established by engineering studies (the statutes are typically so that 25 doesnt need to be posted on every neighborhood street or 50 doesnt need to be posted on every rural road to be enforced). MUTCD also recommends engineering studies (and may actually [i]require[/i] them). Basically, on the basis that pretty much all engineering literature recommends the 85th percentile as a criteria for establishing speed limits and states that lowering speed limits far below this value is unsafe, someone could take the county to court for posting an unsafe speed limit that negatively impacts traffic conditions. In fact, I encourage anyone who gets a ticket here to fight it on these grounds. Speeding is supposed to be punished because it is unsafe, but the speed limits have to be set at reasonable levels for this to actually apply. Is going 50 mph here unsafe just because the limit was reduced? Is 50 mph unsafe on tons of other (more developed) roads like 571, Rabbit Hill Rd, and Cranbury Neck Rd.? I'm not trying to convince you specifically, but just laying out the rationale for all of this.[/quote]

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