The Utah Department of Transportation released a study that showed increasing the speed limit on some parts of freeways from 75 mph to 80 mph may actually be a good thing, according to to Fox 13 Now.

When asked if she felt safer with the new speed limit in place, her answer was clear: “No, it doesn’t. 55 on this road is too slow. It is way too slow for the traffic we have. 55 causes a lot ...

Utah is set to raise the speed limit on most urban freeways to 70 mph, and for the vast majority of us it will mean a little less time fighting traffic. Risk rises with speed limits.

Utah: Increasing Speed Limits Doesn't Kill. Humans are marvelous at self-organization — it’s how we get nomadic tribes and cities like Tokyo, it explains how New Yorkers avoid each other and ...

Highway crashes have dropped annually on some stretches of Interstate 15 in Utah since that state raised the speed limit to 80 mph in late 2008, studies show.

Safety officials say rising speed limits in Utah and beyond will bring more, ... Heading north, near road marker 25 here, the speed limit shifts from 75 to 80 _ all the way north to Provo, ...

A study by the Utah Dept. of Transportation showed accidents decreased by between 11% and 20% when the speed limit was raised from 75 to 80 mph on some parts of the state’s freeways. The results ...

Overall highway crashes have dropped annually on some stretches of Interstate 15 in Utah since the state raised the speed limit to 80 mph in late 2008, studies have shown.

A bill in the Utah Legislature would give cities and counties more freedom to adjust speed limits without first commissioning a traffic engineering and safety study. House Bill 235, sponsored by ...

State transportation officials in Utah said Monday they will first conduct an analysis of speed-related crash data before deciding whether to increase the speed limit to 80-mph on three ...

In Utah, the speed limit has been boosted to 80 mph in three phases in 2008, 2013 and 2014, according to the Utah Department of Transportation. At present, 36 percent of interstate highway miles ...