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• Exceptional benefits, including premium medical, dental, vision and life insurance beginning day one of your assignment. Want to take time off? Keep insurance coverage for up to 24 days between assignments.
• A generous 401(k) match.
• Paid company housing (we'll help you bring your pets along, too!) or a generous housing stipend.
• Paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state, federal, and local laws. Aya's general sick leave policy is that employees accrue one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. However, to the extent any provisions of the statement above conflict with any applicable paid sick leave laws, the applicable paid sick leave laws are controlling.
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• Access to unlimited continuing education units online.
• Licensure, relocation and other reimbursements, when applicable.
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• Bi-weekly weekend travel home.
• A rental car and paid housing.

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• Access to top hospitals and healthcare systems in diverse care settings.
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• Full coverage of licensing costs.
• Travel and lodging coverage.
• Easy timekeeping and streamlined management of documents.
• Malpractice coverage and risk management support.
• Premium medical, dental, vision and life insurance beginning day one of your assignment.
• Paid sick time. Aya provides paid sick leave in accordance with all applicable state, federal, and local laws. Aya's general sick leave policy is that employees accrue one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. However, to the extent any provisions of the statement above conflict with any applicable paid sick leave laws, the applicable paid sick leave laws are controlling.
• Generous 401k match.
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OR Travel Nursing Jobs

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Skilled OR RNs and OR techs are a crucial part of any successful surgical team and surgical procedure. Since success in the OR is so important to so many patients and their families, demand remains consistently high for OR nurses and OR techs. This means that there’s an abundance of well-paying OR travel nursing jobs in exciting locations nationwide! If you’re an OR RN, OR tech, or work another OR-related role, read on to learn more and explore nationwide OR job opportunities for travel nurses and travel allied health professionals.

We connect care by staffing amazing healthcare facilities nationwide with talented and hard working Operating Room Registered Nurses .

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We offer competitive compensation packages to fit your needs, including a company-matching 401(k)program and/or per diem allowances.

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Medical Solutions OR travel nurses are eligible for day-one, nationwide medical insurance coverage starting at just $10 per week for a single, basic policy.

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Your dedicated recruiter is there to help guide you throughout your career & Operating Room travel nursing experience with Medical Solutions.

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We want to make your travel nursing experience painless. That's why we will provide reimbursements on state licenses or certification fees.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to your questions about operating room travel nursing jobs with medical solutions and travel nursing in general., everything about or nurses, operating room nurses are in high demand across the country..

A career in OR travel nursing is a great way for you to avoid nurse burnout — the job is still very demanding, but the variety of locations and facilities can help keep you fresh and motivated. It’s also a great way to sharpen your skills, gain crucial experience, and improve your resume.

The OR — sometimes also referred to as a surgery center — is the unit of a facility where surgical procedures are performed. To succeed working in the OR you must be highly organized, have great attention to detail, practice excellent communication skills, and have excellent problem-solving skills.

Operating rooms are designed to serve an array of patients with various conditions that necessitate surgery. Modern ORs can contain a lot of high-tech equipment and even robotic systems, but the healthcare professionals that staff ORs are the backbone of a successful surgery. ORs also have special equipment like emergency resuscitative tools, diagnostic equipment, patient monitors, and respiratory and cardiac support tools.

The ultimate goal of an OR team is a safe, successful surgery that corrects or improves a patient’s physical issue.

Who Works in the OR?

A wide range of healthcare professionals work in the operating room unit in order to serve the needs of OR patients and perform successful operations. OR team members can include OR RNs, CRNAs, RNFAs, sterile techs, surgical techs , radiology techs, biomedical techs, OR LPNs/LVNs, surgeons, assistant surgeons, surgical assistants, anesthesiologists, circulators, administrative staff, and social workers/case managers. OR staff can work within hospitals or at outpatient surgical centers.

Who’s Treated in the OR?

Patients who need to undergo a surgical procedure are treated in the operating room and the underlying reason for each person’s surgery can vary widely. Some of the most common surgical procedures in the U.S. typically include knee and hip replacements, fracture repairs, angioplasty, stent procedures, hysterectomies, gallbladder removal, appendectomy, heart bypass surgery, cataract removal, C-sections, hernia repair, low back surgery, breast biopsies, debridement (wound, burn, infection), skin grafts, mastectomy, prostatectomy, partial colectomy, and tonsillectomy.

Quick OR Facts

• Commonly required OR RN education : Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) and/or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), plus passing the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)
• Commonly required OR certifications : Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), Certified Surgical Tech (CST)
• Commonly preferred OR certifications : Certified Perioperative Nurse (CNOR), Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI), Certified Sterile Processing and Distribution Tech (CSPDT), Management of Assaultive Behavior (MAB), National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Commonly required experience to become a travel OR RN : Facilities typically require a minimum of two years of recent, in-hospital experience in order to hire you as an OR travel nurse. You’ll want the benefit of experience since travel nurses have to hit the ground running!

Are you a travel nurse or travel allied health professional looking for your next great career opportunity? Click here to explore OR travel nurse and OR travel allied health jobs!

Why Work With Medical Solutions?

• We have great travel nursing jobs for Operating Room Nurses nationwide
• We offer competitive pay and benefits for RNs
• Our Recruiters specialize in helping OR RNs earn more & explore
• We offer free, private, and furnished housing
• We offer travel reimbursements
• Travel & housing is handled by our in-house specialists
• We provide 24/7 contact and support

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Operating Room Travel Nursing Jobs

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Also known as perioperative nurses, operating room (OR) nurses provide care for patients before, during, and after surgical procedures. Perioperative nurses work in every type of healthcare facility.

Operating Room Job Requirements

• Active BLS and ACLS from the American Heart Association
• Active professional license within the state of practice
• Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR) and a Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) credential is recommended and may be required for specific registered nurses and travel nurse positions
• Specialty-related certifications are preferred and may be required for specific positions
• Experience as an OR Nurse
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as an RN

Benefits Of Traveling With Stability Healthcare

Our  Stability Healthcare  recruiter will work with you to plan out various assignments for your travel career in advance. You get the following benefits with  Stability Healthcare :

Health Insurance

Stability Healthcare  incentives and benefits enhance  OR Travel Nurse’s compensation . Such as

• Day 1 Premium Insurance:   Starting on the first day of your assignment, you will be covered by premium insurance (medical, dental, vision, and life insurance).
• $15,000 Company-paid Life/ADD Insurance.

Financial Benefits

Yes, Travel Nurses can earn more money with various assignments. Still, the good news is that it’s not simply the money that attracts people to work as  operating room  travel nurses . With bonuses, extra shift compensation, stipends, and above-average compensation, travel nurses can significantly improve their earnings in a short period of time.

Stability Healthcare’s  incentives and advantages help  OR travel nurses  earn more money. Such as the following:

• PTO for All Nurses
• Travel Reimbursement
• Referral Bonuses
• Extra Hours Bonus
• Guaranteed Stipend
• Paid Compliance Costs

Travel Nurse Salary & Benefits

According to the  Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , the median annual wages of registered nurses in America are  $75,330 per year or $36.22 per hour . Specialized nurses, such as  operating room nurses , are likely to earn more than general nurses.

An  OR nurse’s salary  is determined by a variety of factors, including experience, medical facility, and level of study/nurse education or specialty.

According to the  BLS , the general career outlook for nursing, even before specialization, is encouraging – employment in the nursing industry is expected to expand by 7% between 2022  and 2029, which is faster than the average for most other fields of work.

Career Benefits

If you apply to position yourself as a strong candidate for an operating room  travel nurse career you will get many benefits .  Stability Healthcare’s   Operating Room Travel Nurse jobs offer many benefits, such as:

• Nationwide Jobs
• Prestigious Facilities
• 401 (k) Plan
• Joint Commission Certified

Are you looking for an  Operating Room Travel Nursing  career option? Check our  job opportunities at  Stability Healthcare  and start a new step in your career!

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Travel Nursing Reviews

Jennifer, rn.

The response time from my recruiter and nurse specialist is amazing! They both have been so great to work with on my first assignment out in California!!! Chad and Samantha both are super caring and very responsive! I already extended my contract with the hospital because of the smooth process. They made the transition from Florida to California a lot loss stressful than I imagined. Would definitely recommend them both!!!

My recruiter, and other staff I have had the pleasure of interacting with, are all so friendly and helpful. My recruiter is responsive, and even reached out while she was on vacation to check on me! I’ve worked with other agencies in the past, but Stability is next level when it comes to making your travel nursing experience as seamless as possible! Special shout out to Lindsay (best recruiter ever) and Tracy. Amazing people to work with.

Brittany J.

My recruiter is very responsive and personable. I have NEVER had any issues with them!! This agency even has PTO! None of my co workers with other agencies have this benefit!! Also the rates are equal or higher than most other agencies!! Everything feels more like family than business and for that I would choose stability over any other agency!! I am so happy I chose to work with them!

Sopheare C.

My recruiter Amanda is amazing and always timely with her responses. Debbie who is my nurse experience specialist who is with me all times of the contract is truly awesome. Love how responsive she is and will answer any and all my questions. Big thanks to Jesse my compliance coordinator for making all the appointments and getting me travel ready. Can’t thank my team enough for all they do. Any question or issue I have they resolve right away. And I love that they breakdown each contract into a spread so you know exactly what your getting for the terms of the contract.

I have been incredibly impressed by the professionalism, ease of communication, ability to have all requirements for onboarding fulfilled in a timely manner, and just overall outstanding service. Lindsay Hernandez is my particular recruiter and she has been a pleasure to work with, as well as all the team members at Stability. I’m looking forward to staying with them for my next assignment. I highly recommend them to my nursing friends, and anyone looking to travel as a nurse!

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Travel nurse jobs

Travel nurses are valuable members of the healthcare workforce. The demand to fill travel nurse jobs has always been steady but reached new heights during the COVID-19 pandemic due to short staffing and a high volume of critically ill patients. Today, travel nurse jobs remain a top priority for facilities to fill. That’s why Nomad Health helps nurses find high-paying travel nurse jobs across the country with facilities who need support. Our travel nurse job database includes jobs in popular RN specialties including:

• Medical-surgical
• Emergency room
• Labor and delivery
• Operating Room
• Rehabilitation
• Cardiac ICU
• Critical care
• Long-term care

Travel nurse job requirements

The requirements for travel nurse jobs are not much different from staff travel nurse job requirements, with a few exceptions. Below are the key requirements you will need to have in order to qualify for a travel nurse job.

Education requirements

Travel nurses must have either an associate degree in nursing (ADN) or a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited nursing program.

Licensure requirements

To secure a travel nurse job, you’ll need to pass the NCLEX-RN exam and obtain state licensure. Depending on your home state, you may be eligible to apply for a compact license, which would allow you to work in all states that are part of the nurse licensure compact (NLC) . Having a compact license could be beneficial if you plan on taking travel nurse jobs in multiple states. If the state is not part of the compact, you must obtain an individual license.

Experience requirements

Nomad Health usually requires at least one to two years of experience working in the field before you can qualify for a travel nurse job. However, every facility has their own unique requirements for travel nurse jobs, so make sure you read up on the job description to make sure you have enough experience required for the role.

Certifications

Depending on the specialty, you may need to obtain certain certifications to qualify for a travel nurse job. Some of the most common certifications travel nurses need to have include:

• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Operating Room - First Assist
• Cardiovascular OR
• Medical-Surgical
• Bone Marrow Transplantation
• Medical Surgical - Telemetry

Jobs by Specialty

• Allergy and Immunology
• Cardiac Care Unit
• Case Management
• Chemotherapy
• Critical Care
• Emergency Room
• Home Health
• Hospice & Palliative Care
• Infusion Therapy
• Intermediate Care
• Interventional Radiology
• Labor & Delivery
• Long Term Acute Care
• Long Term Care
• Medical ICU (MICU)
• Mother/Baby
• Neonatal ICU (NICU)
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Occupational Health
• Operating Room - Circulating
• Operating Room - Scrub
• Orthopaedics
• Otolaryngology (ENT)
• Outpatient Clinic
• Pediatric ER
• Pediatric ICU (PICU)
• Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
• RN First Assistant
• Special Care Unit
• Surgical ICU (SICU)
• Transitional Care Unit
• Urgent Care

Travel nurse jobs require you to possess specific hard and soft skills. Depending on the specific travel nurse job you’re applying for, some of these skills may be more essential than others. In general, facilities hiring for travel nurse jobs want you to have the following skills:

• Strong clinical skills
• Adaptability
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience working in new and diverse environments
• Collaboration with other healthcare professionals

Health requirements

Travel nurse jobs require applicants to have an up-to-date physical examination in addition to immunizations. Depending on the facility, you may also be required to take and pass a drug test such as a urine test.

Travel nurse job duties and responsibilities

Each specialty within travel nursing has its own unique set of job duties and responsibilities. However some duties and responsibilities are common across most specialties, including:

Patient care

Travel nurses provide direct patient care using the training and skills from their area of specialization. Travel nurses may assist with medical procedures, administer medications and treatments, respond to emergencies, and assist patients with activities of daily living.

Assessments and monitoring

Travel nurses conduct assessments to determine the patient's status and needs. They also monitor patient vital signs, symptoms, and responses to treatment.

Develop care plans

Travel nurses develop tailored care plans in collaboration with other healthcare team members. They work together to adjust care plans based on the progress of the patient.

Documentation

Travel nurses maintain up-to-date and accurate patient records by documenting treatments, interventions performed, patient responses, and patient progress notes.

Patient and family education

Travel nurses educate patients and their families about health conditions, medications administered, treatment plans, and discharge care.

Emergency response

Travel nurses respond quickly during medical emergencies and coordinate with other healthcare professionals.

Travel nurses adhere to facility policies along with any state-wide nursing regulations. This can include things like maintaining patient confidentiality and following proper infection control guidelines.

Operate equipment and technology

Travel nurses know how to operate medical equipment and technology used for patient care and monitoring.

Continuous learning

Travel nurses stay up to date with the latest nursing practices and standards.

Why consider a travel nurse job?

There are plenty of good reasons why considering a travel nurse job is a smart move. From financial incentives to personal growth, a travel job might be just what you need to take the next step in your nursing career.

High demand for travel nurses

With persistent nursing staff shortages, travel nurse jobs remain in demand. Because the demand is high, you can sleep easy knowing that your job is secure and less susceptible to economic downturns.

Competitive pay

Travel nurse jobs may pay more than staff nurse jobs. Many things can impact travel pay including your experience, education, location, credentials, and facility needs. When you browse travel nurse jobs on Nomad, you’ll see a pay breakdown (including the travel stipend) of every job to know what you can earn before you apply.

Travel nurse jobs provide an opportunity to work with new technologies. Common technology that travel nurses get exposure to may include:

• Electronic health record systems (EHR)
• Telehealth platforms
• Portable monitoring devices
• Smart infusion pumps
• Patient lifts and transfer devices
• Wearable health technology
• Mobile health apps
• Barcode medication administration systems (BCMA)
• Advanced wound care technologies
• Communication tools

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Travel nurse jobs allow you to collaborate cross-functionally with interdisciplinary healthcare staff such as physicians and staff nurses to allied health professionals. When you work closely with these teams, you’ll get a broader perspective on patient care which you can add to your skill set.

Career advancement

Travel nurse jobs can put you on the fast track to learn about the latest education, techniques, treatments, and equipment used in the field. If you’re interested in getting ahead of the curve, applying for a travel nurse job might be right for you.

Visit new locations

One of the biggest perks of travel nurse jobs is deciding where you want to work. From the city to the facility, it’s up to you. Accepting travel jobs in new locations also exposes you to new facilities and patient populations you may not experience in a regular staff position.

Tips for finding the best travel nurse jobs

Most nurses agree that the best travel nurse jobs offer a combination of high compensation and opportunities to expand your clinical experience. However, what makes a travel nurse job the “best” usually depends on personal preferences, career goals, and financial goals.

Research travel nurse job agencies

To find the best travel nurse job for you, research is key. First, you need to determine which travel agencies offer travel nurse jobs. Unfortunately, not all agencies work with travel nurses.

Read travel nurse reviews

Next, you should consider the reputation of the agency you’re considering working with. Use a search engine to read testimonials and reviews other travel nurses have left about the agency. These reviews should give you a general idea of whether the agency meets your standards, and if other travel nurses recommend them.

Compare job benefits

While pay may often be the most important factor in travel nurse jobs, remember that additional perks such as stipends for scrubs, licenses, and travel, along with health insurance and the option to invest in a 401(k) should be factored into the equation. Unlike Nomad, not all agencies offer these types of benefits, so it's important to compare the additional perks before you accept a travel nurse job.

Top locations for travel RN jobs

The demand for travel nurse jobs varies across different states based on factors such as the overall demand for nurse support, the number of healthcare facilities, and the demographics of the regional population. Additionally, states with larger populations and an advanced healthcare infrastructure may need more travel nurses than others.

As one of the biggest states, California has multiple medical facilities in densely populated areas like Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, and San Francisco that often hire for travel nurse jobs. California also has strict nurse-to-patient ratio laws, which bodes well for patient safety and nurse satisfaction. Additionally, California has a high cost of living, which may result in attractive pay rates.

Like California, certain high-growth metropolitan areas in Texas have travel nurse jobs available including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. Because Texas regularly experiences public health emergencies like tornadoes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, the need for travel nurses may be high.

Because Florida has an older-than-average population and an expansive medical system, the demand for nurse travelers is high, especially in cities like Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami, and Orlando. Like Texas, Florida also experiences several natural disasters, including hurricanes, which often result in spikes in demand for travel nurses.

The dense population and high number of healthcare facilities in New York make it a hotspot for travel RN jobs, especially in New York City. Additionally, due to extremely cold winters, there may be an increase in cold-weather emergencies that require medical attention.

Because Arizona experiences a yearly influx of winter visitors, there is a seasonal strain on healthcare systems there which can increase the demand for travel nurses.

How to prepare for your first travel nurse job

If it’s your first time accepting a travel nurse job, there are a few tips and tricks to keep in mind that will help you feel prepared and ready to go on your first day. Every travel nurse job is different, but excelling in one or more of these areas may ensure you are set up for success.

Ask about orientation

One of the most important questions you can ask your hiring manager is about the orientation and onboarding process for your travel RN job. Knowing how much support you will have at the beginning and during your assignment will help you set realistic expectations for your first week on the job.

Be adaptable

Being adaptable is the key to starting any travel RN job. You will need to be prepared for ambiguity and performing tasks that you may not have much experience with.

Build relationships

Along the way, remember to network and build relationships with your new colleagues. Connect with other travel nurses and learn about their experiences with the facility and traveling in general.

Pack wisely

Remember to pack all the essentials you will need for the duration of your travel assignment. Depending on where your travel nurse job is, it may be difficult to find a drug store or other convenience stores for items at the last minute, especially if you’re working in a rural area. We recommend packing extra pairs of scrubs, toiletries, and anything else to make you comfortable during your stay.

Frequently asked questions about travel nurse jobs

Are travel nurse jobs in high demand.

Yes, travel nurse jobs remain in high demand. Because the number of patients that require care continues to increase, facilities may need extra clinical support from travel nurses.

How long do travel nurse jobs last?

Travel RN job contract length varies depending on the needs of the facility. In general, most travel nurse job contracts are 13 weeks long, although it’s not uncommon to find contracts that last eight weeks.

What qualifications do I need to get a travel nurse job?

To qualify for a travel nurse job, you will need a two or four-year college degree, an RN license for the state where you want to work, at least two years of experience working in a specialty, and basic certifications like BLS and ACLS. However, each facility has different requirements for travel nurse jobs, so make sure you review the individual qualifications before you apply.

Can I choose the location for my travel nurse job?

Yes, you can choose the location for your travel nurse job. Nomad Health features travel RN jobs across the United States. Some are in desirable locations like Hawaii, California, and Florida.

How quickly can I start a travel nurse job?

How soon you can start your travel nurse job will depend on the needs of the facility. Sometimes facilities need you to start quickly, while others may allow you to negotiate a start date based on your convenience.

What kind of support will I have during my travel nurse job with Nomad?

You’ll have ongoing support from Nomad Navigators . Once you’re on assignment, you will also have access to Clinical Navigators who are clinicians who have been in your shoes and are equipped to help you navigate any facility or clinical-related issues that may arise.

Do travel nurse jobs provide opportunities for professional growth?

Yes! Travel nurse jobs are an excellent way to fast-track professional growth. When you accept a travel nurse job, you can get exposure to new environments, patient populations, and technology that may help level up your skillset and compensation.

Travel nurse job sources

• National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). (n.d.). Home. Retrieved December 6, 2023, from https://www.ncsbn.org/
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). (n.d.). Home. Retrieved December 6, 2023, from https://www.aacnnursing.org/
• Nurse Licensure Compact. (n.d.). Applying for Licensure. Retrieved December 6, 2023, from https://www.nursecompact.com/how-it-works/applying-for-licensure.page

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The American Addiction to Speeding

How we became obsessed with driving fast, no matter the cost..

One Tuesday morning this fall, I strapped on a Kevlar vest and slid into the passenger seat of a gray Ford Interceptor sedan , the souped-up Taurus that replaced the Crown Vic as America’s default police car a decade ago.* (And has since been replaced itself: Ford no longer produces police cars, only SUVs and pickups .) This model has several features that are not available for civilian use, including a siren on the roof and a V6 Mustang engine under the hood.

That came in handy when Kevin Roberts, a talkative, thoughtful third-year cop, steered us onto Connecticut’s Interstate 84 for the day shift. We were heading toward Waterbury, whose interlocking expressways are his to patrol. Roberts was in the left lane going 80, and I had the uncanny experience of surveying the highway from his point of view. How many times have I been on the other side—overtaking some slowpoke, 12 over the limit, only to see a rack of siren lights in the rearview mirror and ask myself: How slowly can I complete this pass?

Roberts and I were waiting for that moment of panicked recognition. He knows people resent that the police are always speeding, but he says it’s the only way to do the job. You can’t drive the speed limit or below, because no one wants to pass a cop. The highway’s self-organizing system would disintegrate and traffic would slow to molasses. “Everyone’s at 10 and 2,” he said as we made our way past another stone-faced commuter. It’s the morning rush, and drivers are on their best behavior. “You’ve got to wait for people to spread their wings.”

Roberts is not out to ticket every last speeder, because that would be impossible. “We know not everyone is going to go 55, 65, we’re realistic,” he said. “Not everyone is going to go the speed limit.” When he’s not responding to an accident or a crime, he sees his role as corrective. Sometimes that means loop after loop on the city’s highway landmarks, the Mountain (a steep slope to the east) and the Mixmaster (a decked highway near the city), without stopping to set a trap at all.

But sometimes that means making good on the threat that’s implicit in all that driving. Roberts rolled into the grass alongside an on-ramp, hidden from oncoming traffic by a sign and a bend in the road. He pulled out a TruSpeed S, a top-of-the-line laser gun that permits him to gauge the speed of passing cars from any angle.* We sat there for about 30 seconds before he clocked a blue Buick doing 90, and then we were off, racing down the highway until we were right behind the car in question.

Speeding is a national health problem and a big reason why this country is increasingly an outlier on traffic safety in the developed world. More than 1 in 4 fatal crashes in the United States involve at least one speeding driver, making speeding a factor in nearly 10,000 deaths each year , in addition to an unknowable number of injuries. Thousands of car crash victims are on foot, and speed is an even more crucial determinant of whether they live or die: The odds of a pedestrian being killed in a collision rise from 10 percent at 23 mph to 75 percent at 50 mph. And we’re now in a moment of particular urgency. Last year, when the pandemic shutdowns lowered total miles traveled by 13 percent, the per-mile death rate rose by 24 percent—the greatest increase in a century , thanks to drivers hitting high velocities on empty roads. “COVID,” Roberts said, “was midnight on the day shift.”

In the first six months of 2021, projected traffic fatalities in the U.S. rose by 18 percent , the largest increase since the U.S. Department of Transportation started counting and double the rate of the previous year’s surge. “We cannot and should not accept these fatalities as simply a part of everyday life in America,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in a press release.

But we do. Such carnage has not prompted a societal response akin to the movement elicited by drunk driving in the 1980s. Part of the reason is that Americans love driving fast and have confidence in their own abilities. About half admit to going more than 15 over the limit in the past month. Meanwhile, drivers do generally regard their peers’ speeding as a threat to their own safety, and so we have wound up with the worst of both worlds: Thousands of speed-related deaths on the one hand, and on the other, a system of enforcement that is both ineffective and inescapable.

What I was about to do with Trooper Roberts on that fall morning—chase down a driver on the highway, pull over the car, and issue a ticket—is the No. 1 way Americans interact with police and serves as the start of 1 in 3 police shootings. But it doesn’t stop Americans from speeding.

The nation’s most disobeyed law is dysfunctional from top to bottom. The speed limit is alternately too low on interstate highways, giving police discretion to make stops at will, and too high on local roads, creating carnage on neighborhood streets. Enforcement is both inadequate and punitive. The cost is enormous. And the lack of political will to do something about it tracks with George Carlin’s famous observation that everybody going faster than you is a maniac and everybody going slower than you is an idiot. The consensus is: Enforce the speed limit. But not on me, please. Because while it would be nice to save 10,000 lives a year, it sure is fun to drive fast.

It is as strange as cigarettes on airplanes or dating ads in newspapers to think that between 1974 and 1995, the United States maintained a national speed limit of 55 miles per hour in the name of saving lives. It was one of those moments, like the end of the Concorde’s supersonic passenger jet service or the collapse of the Arecibo Telescope, when technology lurched backward.

The 50-state slowdown known as the “double nickel” began in 1973, with President Richard Nixon’s appeal for collective sacrifice. In retaliation for America’s support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War, the coalition of Middle Eastern states known as OPEC decided that fall to stop selling oil to the United States. Prices quadrupled. The president wanted Americans to change their ways: He asked gas stations to close on Sundays and businesses to turn off lighted advertisements. Mayors and department stores dimmed Christmas bulbs nationwide. Daylight saving time went year-round in an effort to use less electric light. Thanks to the lowered thermostat, women were permitted to wear pants in the White House.

And Nixon prompted Congress to implement a national speed limit, for the first time since the Second World War. Then it was to conserve rubber; now, the White House hoped, slower and more fuel-efficient driving would save gasoline.

The lower speed limit did not, in the end, have a significant effect on gas consumption. But the law was retained until the Clinton administration because it appeared to have another welcome consequence: saving lives. In the first six months of 1974, highway deaths fell by 23 percent—a decline widely attributed to the national speed limit. At the urging of the U.S. Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar, Congress made the 55 mph speed limit permanent.

Two decades of culture war ensued, as rural Americans and Republicans turned against the very idea of oil conservation, represented by those double-nickel interstate signs. “To understand the Reagan Democrats, look no further than the fifty-five mile-an-hour speed limit,” writes Dan Albert in the automotive history Are We There Yet? Kansas Sen. Bob Dole spoke up for those who lived in the America of wide-open spaces, defending high-speed driving; Ronald Reagan promised speed limit repeal in his 1980 campaign. A half-dozen states in the Mountain West replaced speeding tickets with $5 “energy wastage” fines. Sammy Hagar sang “I Can’t Drive 55,” and Tara Buckman, in the opening scene of the 1981 blockbuster The Cannonball Run , leapt from a Lamborghini in a spandex jumpsuit to spray-paint a red X across the 55 mph sign—before fleeing from the highway patrol.

Brock Yates, a Car and Driver editor who drove the first Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash in 1971, became the law’s foremost public intellectual opponent. His son, Brock Yates Jr., recalled that his father called the law’s supporters “Safety Nazis,” “because they were convinced that speed kills.” Yates Jr. is a driving instructor who, as a 14-year-old, manned the CB radio on that first coast-to-coast sprint. “Most people, without a speed limit, run out of skill and courage at 75 or 80,” he said. “An argument can be made that speed kills. But it’s really the stopping that kills, not the going.”

Calculating the benefit of something so many people want to do against the cost of thousands of deaths can feel a little grotesque. But economists do the cost-benefit analysis nevertheless, and the results for the 55 mph speed limit were soundly in favor of letting people drive faster if you assigned even a fractional wage value to all the wasted, 55-mph highway hours. In short, at higher speeds, many people died, but many more got to work on time.

The Newt Gingrich–led House voted to repeal the federal speed limit in 1995. The issue wasn’t split along party lines. Democrat Nick Rahall II of West Virginia warned that the bill “would turn our nation’s highways into killing fields.” In the Senate, Virginia’s Republican Sen. John Warner protested that “there are some issues in America that override states’ rights,” the national speed limit among them. Ohio GOP Sen. Mike DeWine said simply, “If we raise the speed limit, people will die.” Automotive watchdog Ralph Nader told President Bill Clinton he ought to “express his apologies to the thousands of people—children, women, and men—who will soon lose their lives or be permanently disabled.”

But that did not come to pass. The number of annual auto deaths dropped below 44,000 in 1990 and has not passed that number since; instead, it fell to a 40-year low in 2014, despite enormous growth in the number of cars on the road. Every state has raised the speed limit over the past few decades, with parts of Texas now topping out at 80 mph.

It turns out that calculating the relationship between the speed limit and road safety is surprisingly complicated. In the years since the national speed limit was repealed, both supporters and opponents of speed limits have managed to marshal ample evidence to make their case. On the pro-limit side: In 1984, the National Academy of Sciences reported to Congress that the national speed limit saved 4,000 lives and prevented 3,500 severe injuries and 50,000 minor injuries each year. A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety concludes that subsequent increases in speed limits over two decades have cost 33,000 American lives. Annual auto deaths kept falling after repeal, they argue, thanks to unrelated improvements in car safety.

Other researchers have disputed these conclusions. One 1994 survey, for example, looked at crash data since 1987, when many states were permitted to raise speed limits to 65 in rural areas, in a series of carve-outs to the 1974 law, and concluded that the speed limit increase had reduced fatalities by as much as 5 percent, possibly because it encouraged drivers to use the safer, faster interstates and permitted police to redirect their efforts toward more dangerous two-lane roads. Others have surmised that it is less speeding than the difference of speeds that causes accidents, and higher speed limits encourage everyone to drive in a more self-similar fashion, since law abiders accelerate to meet the speed that lawbreakers drive anyway.

Ezra Hauer, a civil engineer and authority on road safety who taught at the University of Toronto, summarized the conflicting data like this: It is hard to prove that crashes are more common when speeds go up. But they are certainly more severe. “It’s pretty well-accepted that speed is positively related to injury,” he said. “You have to decelerate from a certain speed, your internal organs decelerate, collide with your rib cage, your brain collides with your skull. If you increase the average speed by 1 percent, you increase the number of fatalities by 3–4 percent.”

Members of the higher speed limit lobby often point out that raising limits does not necessarily raise speeds. Boosting the speed limit may merely bring the law in line with the observed roadway speed. “When I look at correcting a speed limit, I am not advocating driving faster, and that’s the hard part to get over,” Lt. Gary Megge of the Michigan State Police told a reporter a few years ago.

It is not an exaggeration to say that police power in the United States is built around the unique conditions created by car culture, in which virtually everyone is breaking the law all the time—with occasionally severe consequences. In her book Policing the Open Road , the legal scholar Sarah Seo points out that mass car ownership prompted a wholesale reinterpretation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects us against search and seizure. Or it did, until we all started driving everywhere.

Police often abuse this authority to perform “pretextual stops” hoping to find guns or drugs, knowing that trivial traffic violations give them the power to search citizens at will. Officers have at times undertaken this constitutional sleight of hand with explicit federal endorsement, deputized as foot soldiers in the war on drugs. In one of the most notorious examples, police in Arizona used traffic stops to enforce federal immigration law.

For Black drivers, pretextual traffic stops—per Jay-Z, “ doing 55 in a 54 ”—are a routine occurrence and the foremost symbol of racial profiling in this country. For many police departments, these violations are used to fill government coffers and prompt devastating cycles of fines, debt, suspended driver’s licenses, and jail time. Black drivers are 20 percent more likely to be stopped, according to a study last year , and almost twice as likely to be searched.

Most harmless speeding, the type that most people feel is natural to keep up with the flow of traffic, happens on limited-access highways (roads with merge lanes, exits, and no roadside commerce). That’s where the power of the National Maximum Speed Limit was felt. That’s where the share of drivers going over the speed limit is highest. That’s where the anti–speed limit advocates get their data. But that’s not where most accidents happen. Despite the high speeds, the Interstate Highway System is more than twice as safe per mile as almost any other type of road.

For those reasons, the dichotomy between “speeding” and “not speeding” is not very instructive. The consequences of high speeds vary greatly based on context, in ways that may have little to do with posted speed limits or fines. Go a few miles over the speed limit, and you may still be one of the slower drivers on the road. Go 20 over, and your risk rises exponentially . Speed on a highway and the person you most put at risk is yourself. Speed in a residential neighborhood and you threaten a whole community, from the people on the street to the buildings around them.

Given all this, speeding enforcement could use a tighter focus. Relatively few motorists drive at what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration calls “extreme speeds” of more than 20 mph over the limit. In the District of Columbia, it was just 6 percent of speeders in 2019 . (One of them was going 132 mph in a 50 mph zone.) For a police-based enforcement system to be able to find and stop those drivers would be remarkably good luck. But those are exactly the drivers most likely to hurt themselves or others in a crash.

Enter automated traffic enforcement, or speed cameras, which can reduce encounters between citizens and the police, target extreme speeders, and discourage bad driving. Unlike drunk and distracted driving—the two other great causes of death on the road—speeding can be easily patrolled by machine.

In Europe, speed cameras are ubiquitous and so familiar that “radar” is a readily available Halloween costume for French children. In France and other European countries, it’s almost unheard of to be pulled over by a flashing-lights police cruiser going 85 mph. Instead, roads are lined with radar-enabled cameras that distribute tickets by mail. Speed cameras are a part of the reason Europe’s roads are now much safer than America’s; a 2010 literature review found crashes resulting in death or serious injury fell between 17 and 58 percent where cameras were installed . And because speeding is more rigorously enforced, penalties are smaller than in the United States, where a speeding ticket can set you back hundreds of dollars.

The world’s most developed speed camera network is in New York City. A pilot of 140 cameras installed around city schools in 2014 reduced speeding during school hours by 63 percent and injuries by 14 percent. After an expansion in 2019 to 750 schools, the cameras—which operate between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.—reduced speeding on average by 72 percent. Crashes near cameras fell too. The cameras only issue tickets to drivers going more than 10 mph over the speed limit.

Brad Lander, New York City’s comptroller-elect, has proposed using this information to target repeat offenders for remedial driving courses or vehicle seizure. Conventional speeding tickets are a pretty lousy data set, since your odds of getting caught are so low. Not so with the information from speed cameras. Unlike on the highway, here it’s meaningful that 59 percent of drivers who get a ticket never get another one, and another 18 percent receive just one more. Small fines and changed behavior: The city’s speed camera program is a model.

Except that it has little power over the worst drivers, who can be easily identified by their repeat violations. Lander’s bill would require drivers to take a course once they accrue more than 15 school zone speeding tickets in a 12-month period. That sounds like a higher number than it is. The driver who lost control in Brooklyn in September, killing a 3-month-old baby, had received 91 camera-issued speeding tickets —including 15 speeding fines in July and August alone.

Some civil rights advocates oppose automated enforcement on the grounds that even race-blind cameras are used to scale up America’s traditions of revenue-driven and racist policing. In D.C., for example, researchers found that drivers in segregated Black neighborhoods received 17 times as many camera tickets per capita as their counterparts in white neighborhoods. Black Washingtonians are indeed more likely to live near high-speed arterials where drivers (including white suburbanites) go very fast, but the disparity suggests the cameras aren’t improving driver safety so much as raising money. America’s one-size-fits-all fine structure is also inherently regressive compared with Finland, where speeding tickets are famously adjusted to match the driver’s income .

Still, the prospect of a well-run speed camera program is enticing for city residents who have watched their neighbors die in both collisions with speeding cars and encounters with police. As the activist Darrell Owens, who successfully pushed Berkeley, California, to remove the police role in traffic enforcement , put it recently, “No one’s ever been shot by a traffic camera.”

“Most people support cameras,” said Kelcie Ralph, who studies speeding at Rutgers and recently completed a national survey on the subject, to be published next year. “There’s a very vocal minority of opposition, and they are very vigilant and show up at meetings. But most people recognize this is a problem and want the government to take action.” The problems with camera programs, she added, could be fixed by designing better systems and directing revenue into nearby infrastructure like sidewalks and curb cuts.

For the moment, though, those squeaky wheels have convinced powerful legislators that speed cameras are some kind of constitutional violation, more invasive than the nation’s existing network of toll cameras and a greater abuse of police power than random highway detentions. What these people really object to is being caught. In the 2021 GOP debate for New York City mayor, eventual Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa said the No. 1 issue facing New Yorkers was not COVID-19, climate change, high rents, or the tax base—but “needless speed cameras.” His opponent agreed. Eight states have banned the use of speed cameras entirely. The prospect of cameras displacing the discretion of state police is, for the moment, implausible.

Speed cameras and speed traps have something in common: They both rely on the wisdom of speed limits, which are not very wise. The conventional wisdom in the field of traffic engineering is that the speed limit should be set according to the 85 th percentile rule—at the speed of the 15 th -fastest of 100 drivers on the road. City transportation officials do not like this method: The fastest 15 percent of drivers, they argue, are not always the most rational appraisers of what constitutes a safe speed. Nor should drivers’ interests determine the character of a street for its other users. In an essay in the Harvard Law Review, Greg Shill and Sara Bronin write , “The 85th Percentile Rule is perhaps unique in American law in empowering lawbreakers to activate a rewrite of the law to legalize their own unlawful conduct.”

But the 85 th percentile rule contains a fundamental truth: Drivers respond to the road they are given. Engineers use this rule to foster a cycle of wider, clearer roads and higher speeds. But the same logic could be employed in the opposite direction, too, in places where drivers and pedestrians interact.

There are three basic changes we could make to America’s roads, cars, and drivers to address speeding at its root. First, we could design roads to keep drivers at safe speeds. In rural areas, that means replacing intersections with roundabouts—a change associated with cutting crash rates by more than 50 percent . In cities, that means narrowing streets and intersections , building out curbs and speed bumps, and changing pavements to materials like paving stones that slow drivers down.

“We’re at the point where the things we have to do may be uncomfortable for people,” said Zabe Bent, the director of design at the National Association of City Transportation Officials. But, she added, many of the city arterials where thousands of pedestrians are killed each year are not in control of local residents and their elected officials, but are instead run by state DOTs. University Avenue in South Florida, Moreland Avenue in Atlanta, Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco: These are just a few roads where local politicians are powerless to change speed limits or roadway designs.

Second, we could do a better job training drivers. American teenagers are by far the most dangerous group of people on the road , with 16- and-17-year-olds more than three times likelier to get into a fatal crash than adults in their 30s or 40s. After 80, drivers again become more dangerous to people around them. “Since we’ve put the onus on the speed limit and the cars, we’ve forgotten the drivers as the most important part,” said Yates, the driving instructor and Cannonball alumnus. “We’ve gotten away from teaching skills—requiring you learn something about the 4,000-pound missile you’re driving.”

Third, we could intervene in the architecture of vehicles themselves. The U.S. auto industry killed the possibility of “speed governors” in cars in the 1920s. Do those arguments hold for self-driving cars as well? Recent technology allows auto regulators to make finer-grain interventions as well, such as intelligent speed assistance, a modest version of which will soon be installed on all vehicles sold in the European Union. When activated, ISA would create resistance under the accelerator when a car surpasses the speed limit.

It’s no surprise that speed limits are being introduced into cars in Europe first; the continent’s anti-speeding movement is gaining ground. At the national level, it’s being driven by green parties’ concerns that how high speeds are bad for gas mileage and emissions. At the local level, city governments are trying to protect pedestrians and bicyclists. Europe has lower speed limits in cities and speed cameras on highways, and those changes have been coupled with rigorous driver education and better street design. In the U.S., meanwhile, we have been reluctant to address any of the root causes of unsafe speeds, preferring instead to play with signage and enforcement.

Like many police, Trooper Kevin Roberts thinks speeding enforcement works, in the sense that it slows down traffic at large. Some experts I spoke to dispute this notion, but I can see why you would think it were so if you drove a police car all day. As a philosophical matter, it does not bother him to be charged with enforcing a law that no one obeys. That’s in part because he knows the speed limit is a coded behavioral guide whose real message, “Don’t go more than 10 mph above this speed,” is widely heeded. It is the legal equivalent of inviting your friends to dinner at 7:30 and knowing the whole party would be there by 8.

But the other thing Roberts said was that there was nothing unusual at all about the speed limit, insofar as it gave the police almost total power to stop and fine drivers at will. “Everything’s illegal,” he said as we watched a line of cars turn in front of us—one, two, three, four. “No front plate. License plate cover. Tinted windows. Following too close. I’m not going to pull over 300 cars. That’s not what people want.” In short, the discretionary power of police is so vast that speeding isn’t so exceptional after all. Except that unlike all those other technicalities, it’s deadly.

After he gave out a ticket, Roberts let me try the speed gun. It resembled binoculars on its outer side, narrowing into one lens for my eye. Using a red target in the lens, I followed a car on the road as the machine emitted a faintly mechanical buzz before concluding with a beep: 56 mph. Beep: 62 mph. Beep: 60 mph. I wondered if I was doing this wrong. And then I remembered: I was in a highly visible police car on the side of the road. Everyone had already slowed down, likely for the first and last time on their morning drive.

Roberts instructed me to look back toward the bend where drivers first saw us. You could actually watch the front of the cars sink as traffic decelerated. Cops call that “dropping the anchor.” It’s a familiar experience for police now that drivers share troopers’ locations on Waze, quashing the element of surprise. Some cops are on Waze too, and they’ll remove themselves. But in some ways, their work is done here. It dawned on me that you could probably get everyone to drive the limit by sticking an empty cop car at various strategic points along the road. No trooper necessary.

A big cold front was moving in, bringing thunderstorms. “It’s going to get messy,” Roberts said. He dropped me off at the barracks, where I got into my own car and headed west on I-84 as the rain began to come down. I didn’t get far before traffic slowed to a crawl. A tow truck passed on the shoulder. After 20 minutes of stopping and starting, I reached the choke point: Three mangled cars on the side of the road, two drivers on the scene, one in an ambulance somewhere ahead.

Correction, March 11, 2022: This piece originally misidentified the TruSpeed S as a radar gun. It is a laser gun.

Correction, Dec. 16, 2021: This piece originally mischaracterized the vest as made of Mylar. It was made of Kevlar.

Essay About Speed Limits

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Nowadays out streets and highways are filled with automobiles, motors, buses and different other vehicles, which make problems of traffic safety topical for our society. Thousands of accidents happen every day in our country, and the statistic of lethal outcomes is really scary. The majority of reasons, which usually bring to accidents and deaths on the roads, are connected with speeding and alcohol usage.

That is why it is necessary to think about assuming some drastic measures, directed on protection of our citizens on the road and next to it. This problem has to receive permanent public concern and attention. To my mind, establishing of speed limits is one of such measures, which can work well and be really effective. Speed limitations can be especially efficient for extremely busy roads, like motorways, highways or freeways.

Currently, all 50 states of our country adopted the laws, which set up speed limitations on the roads and highways. Speed limit is maximum (or minimum) speed established by legislation for one of another type of road. Usually, the drivers can be informed about speed limits on the roads with the help of traffic signs, which appear next to the roads.Of course, speed limits vary according to the type of the roads and type of the vehicle. A number of states have different speed limits for such vehicles, as buses, trucks and other commercial means of transportation and, as a rule, maximum speed limit for such vehicles is lower, than the one for usual cars.

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Also, some states have different day-time speed limitations and night-time speed limitations.Average speed limits in the United States are the following: 45–70 mph on the highways and expressways, connecting the cities or towns, 55–70 mph on non-Interstate expressways, and up to75 mph on interstate freeways (Wikipedia). In some states speed limits can exceed 75 mph, like in Texas or Kansas, where it is allowed to drive with the speed 80mph on some roads.Certainly, speed limits slightly vary from one state to another. For example, in Arizona usual maximum speed limit for highways is 75 mph and in Tennessee it is at most 65 mph. It is interesting also, that generally the states on the West of the country have speed higher limits, than the ones in the East (Wikipedia).There is a special rule, connected with establishing of speed limits, which is used in our country since the middle of XX century. It is called the 85th Percentile Rule. The concept of this rule is the following: typically 85% of drivers do not exceed the threshold of safeness in normal circumstances. It means that 85% of drivers usually drive with the speed, which is relatively safe for particular road or highway. That is why the majority of current speed limitations are set by traffic engineers, according to this finding.Speed limits are really very necessary, because the drivers of the vehicles, which are moving with too very high speed, can not react quickly on the changes of the situation on the road. Also, a speeding car has considerably lower ability to maneuver and can not stop its movement fast. In such cases, established speed limitations help the drivers to keep their vehicles under permanent control during their travel.Therefore, the main functions of speed limits are slowing down the traffic and decreasing the amount of accidents, connected with speeding. Especially, it can be said about the highways, where a lot of vehicles move permanently with relatively high speed. That is why the accidents on highways are exceptionally dangerous for people.Besides, speed limitations are directed on strengthening of safety of the drivers, as well. Speeding is very dangerous for the automobile itself. When speeding, the processes in mechanism of the car get accelerated and fasten very intensively. Sometimes driving speed is too very high and the mechanism of the automobile can not stand on such intensification and tension. That is why in such situations engine can blow or other malfunction of car can happen.Certainly, speed limitations have other important functions. Frequently, speed limitations are connected with some special situations on the roads, like roadwork or bad environmental conditions. In such cases, speed limitations play the role of reminders about the most reasonable speed levels on one or another part of a highway, and make our roads much safer.In other words, speed limitations attract attention of the drivers to the most unsafe and critical parts of the highways. For example, tough speed limitations can be very effective in those parts of the roads, where some reconstruction or road expansion take place. Or, some special speed limits can be established for the roads, which are located on dangerous territories: for example, in the mountains, where the roads are spiral.In addition, speed limits have one more very practicable reason. They are necessary for our society as an effective reinforcement instrument for the police. Only specified speed limits can serve as reference points, which help to control the speeders on the roads. That is why established speed limits can help police officers in providing and securing conditions for safe traveling on the highways, and also in catching and fighting with chronic speeders. Speed limits are exceptional regulations of traffic on the roads.Many opponents of speed limits say that established limits can not force all drivers to obey them. They point on large amount of those drivers, who enjoy speeding in anyway. This can be partially true. But still the majority of drivers pays attention on speed limitation signs and tries to fit into established speed limits, because these limitations serve for the safety of the very drivers, as well. Besides, any specified speed limitation is better, than unspecified ones!Speed limits are very important and effective measures of road safety! They must exist, but certainly they have to be realistic, reasonable and flexible. Speed limits have to vary, depending on the category, location and business of a street or a highway. Such details, like weather conditions, terrain features, condition of the road, etc., must be obligatory taken into consideration, when establishing speed limits.According to the statistics, about 32% of lethal accidents are connected with speeding. (Blagojevich) That is why it is extremely important not only to establish speed limitations, but also to control observation of these limits by the drivers, especially on the highways and freeways, where the existing speed limitations are rather high and the situation always remains dangerous for safety of our citizens.Bibliography:· Blagojevich, Rod. “Speed Limit Enforcement.” Illinois State Police. 2004. 14 Dec. 2005 <http://www.isp.state.il.us/traffic/speedlimitenf.cfm >.· “Speed Limit.” Wikipedia. The Free Encyclopedia Online. 4 Dec. 2005 14 Dec. 2005 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit >.· “Speed Limits.” Arizona Department of Transportation. ITD Highways Home Page.14 Dec. 2005 <http://www.azdot.gov/Highways/Traffic/Speed.asp >.

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IELTS essay, topic: Many people believe that reducing speed limits is the best option for road safety improvement (agree/disagree)

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Many people believe that reducing speed limits is the best option for road safety improvement. Do you think there are other measures that could be put in place? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?

One of the most conspicuous trends of today’s world is a colossal surge in the number of vehicle accidents cars, trucks and buses, all over the , be it in impoverished or developed nations. There is a wide range of factors that . In my opinion, this situation could be remedied, provided some effective measures are taken.

Measures to deal with this soaring concern are many; the most significant are not remote or complicated but accessible and practicable. The primary one lies in the fact that governments should take a firm stance and apply stringent rules and regulations to lower the speed limit. Secondly, using electronic devices while driving should be forbidden by law. Finally, an awareness program could be initiated by individuals to educate the public about the catastrophic effects of unsafe roads and the projected enhancements for road safety. Only when convergent efforts from all sectors are ensured, can we expect to see considerable progress in tackling this problem.

There is a deluge of merits for implementation of reduced speed limits. High speed is likely to impose life threatening danger on people crossing the roads, due to the perilous nature of this hazardous speed with danger being an integral part of it. Not only does reducing the speed limits contribute to decreasing daily accidents, but it also raises the standard of driving. Needless to say, all these advantages have a far-reaching impact on pedestrian safety.

There are, however, some pitfalls that can easily overpower the potential benefits of limiting speed. The primary one stems from the fact that slowing the speed could lead to augmenting the daily traffic hours. Besides, it could also delay delivering sick and patients to hospitals. Hence, it is apparent why some individuals are against changing the standardized level of speed.

From what has been discussed, one can conclude that despite the drawbacks of reducing speed limits, the expected benefits of this measure are indeed far greater.

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50 Years Since Nixon’s ‘National Speed Limit’: A Tale of Missed Opportunities

A half-century after the federal government instituted a national maximum speed, setting speed limits that keep all road users safe has become a political battleground.

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This time, progress went backwards. But now, maybe, it’s going back to the future.

On Jan. 2, 1974, President Richard Nixon signed a National Maximum Speed Limit law that restricted highway driving at 55 miles per hour across the country in an effort to save fuel during the oil crisis. Yet for almost all of the next 50 years, states slowly undermined the law’s safety benefits and energy conservation.

Today, though, advocates are making progress to claw back those gains — aided, unfortunately, by reckless drivers who killed 7,500 pedestrians in 2022, a 40-year high . 

“As more people connect the dots that higher speeds are a big contributor to our pedestrian safety crisis, we’ve been able to push states to do the work to lower speeds on streets that they do manage and allow more flexibility on that local and county level,” said Leah Shahum, founder of the Vision Zero Network. “Cities are pushing to set speeds based on actual safety needs and not a hand-me-down policy that’s existed for years.”

A promising start

It could have turned out better from the beginning. 

Nixon’s Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act required states to cap speeds on divided freeways with four or more lanes in order for states to receive federal highway funds. Nixon resigned nine months later, but his successor, Gerald Ford, and Congress made the change permanent in January 1975. As a result, 29 states lowered their posted speed limits to just 55 miles per hour.

The measure was primarily conceived to conserve fuel during the country’s energy crisis. Middle Eastern countries launched an oil embargo the previous year that led to gas shortages and skyrocketing prices. But safety was not evoked in Nixon’s remarks about the bill.

Whether it was Nixon's intention or not, increased safety appears to have been a side effect of the lower speed cap. For a brief period in the mid-1970s, fewer people died on the roads. In the first year of the policy’s enactment alone, the number of fatalities fell by 16 percent, from 55,511 in 1973 to 46,402 in 1974, according to a National Research Council report conducted in 1984.

But some states sought to undermine the law by refusing to penalize speeding violations despite safety and energy conservation benefits. The law also counterintuitively forced several states, including New York, Maryland, and New Jersey to raise expressway speeds that had previously been set at 50 mph. 

States officials eventually won out. By 1987, Congress permitted states to bump up speed limits to 65 miles per hour on rural interstate freeways despite protests from Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 

And eight years after that , Congress lifted its regulations and allowed states to make their own rules. Several states set top freeway speeds at 70 to 75 mph. Texas, naturally, jumped to 85. 

The changes may have had a catastrophic effect on the country’s health and safety, with a 3.2-percent increase in road fatalities between 1995 and 2005 that public health experts say accounted for 12,545 deaths that might not have occurred otherwise during that period.

Researchers also determined that fatalities rose nine percent on rural interstates and four percent on urban ones, according to a 2009 report in the American Journal of Public Health. And that study may have underestimated traffic deaths because the Fatality Analysis Reporting System database only reports deaths within 30 days of a crash, doesn’t collect data on crashes on private property, and relies on police reports, which are often incomplete.

“We’re seeing Autobahn-level speeds in the US, which means when you do get into a crash the risk of death is exponentially higher,” said Lee Friedman, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health who co-authored the 2009 report. “Motor vehicle safety has improved [for car occupants] incredibly, but there’s a point where you reach a speed threshold where the probability of death is incredibly high. As our road systems allow us to go faster and car design has a better ability of stability and soundproofing, we habituate to higher speeds.”

So what should be done?

Transportation advocates have pursued different strategies to slow down drivers.

Groups like the National Association of City Transportation Officials have long sought to convince state departments of transportation to stop setting speeds by using the “85th percentile” strategy, or the speed at or below which 85 percent of motorists will drive on an open road. Instead they advise setting limits on major corridors like state-owned arterials and add slow zones in sensitive areas like schools. States like Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Colorado are beginning to develop a more holistic strategy to review roadways, NACTO officials said — and in December, federal speed-limit-setting guidelines were updated to help more of them do so.

“Speed-setting practices across various levels of government share many of the same problematic flaws, especially a singular focus on motor vehicle speeds at the expense of safety of non-motor vehicle users,” said former NACTO spokesman Billy Richling. “We have seen some states move in the right direction.”

Adopting speed cameras along high-speed corridors and in sensitive areas has been another strategy. Chicago has added about 162 speed cameras near parks and schools. And New York City installed about 2,000 cameras, which write nearly six million tickets per year (even though a million or so incidents per year aren’t being recorded because drivers have used fake or obscured plates). In Australia, meanwhile, speed cameras are installed on highways at regular intervals, contributing to lower fatality rates on the country’s roadway system.

“They’re not the golden goose that solves the problems of all fatalities, but it’s the one difference between the US and other countries committed to Vision Zero, which is that they are committed to broad, systemwide speed cameras,” UIC’s Lee Friedman said. “If we have to concede we’re never going to get speed limits down then lobbying for speed cameras and the sell is that they pay for themselves.”

Other advocates are more optimistic that they can reduce speeds along deadly avenues. They have sought to get power from statehouses to add traffic-calming measures and lower posted limits along state roads in their communities. Shahum and her Vision Zero advocates worked with city officials to reduce San Francisco’s Cesar Chavez Street from six lanes to four and add a center median, rain gardens and bike paths to calm traffic. More recently, she convinced San Francisco officials to lower speeds from 25 to 20 mph in the Tenderloin, a low-income neighborhood with several wide-avenue arterials and one of the highest number of traffic deaths and injuries. 

But some states and localities have gone backwards despite evidence that slower road speeds save lives. Several states are looking to boost speeds on their highways by another five miles per hour. And in New York City, the Adams administration has scuttled measures to redesign dangerous streets in the Bronx and Brooklyn after constituents who drive argued it would slow down their commutes.

Shahum said there are always tradeoffs.

“It’s about choosing whether public safety is actually the priority,” she said. “If you are not prioritizing that over other important needs like economic prosperity and the idea of speed then you’re not serious about safety.”

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Why Obeying the Speed Limit Is Essential

Violating speed limits is a common practice for drivers in most countries. With the increased quality and safety of modern vehicles, there is a high demand for raising speed limits. While many people argue against a speed limit, some believe it is better to follow general roadway guidelines to reduce inherent risks. This essay agrees with the opinion that it is of utmost importance to adhere to speed limits. Most of the reasons are related to safety, traffic level, and additional expenses on accidents.

Ignoring the speed limit results in severe problems for both drivers and people in a cab. Speed limits, along with other guidelines, are set to guarantee everyone’s safety. When people drive slowly, they have more time to react and prevent a possible car crash. According to Zhao et al., in 2017, accidents caused by speeding in China accounted for about 2.88% of the total number of accidents. Furthermore, accidents cause traffic problems that initiate other issues, such as increased noise levels, pollution, and dissatisfaction among commuters. Thus, it is safer and cheaper to follow the rules and pay fines for driving above the limit instead of paying compensation after an accident or injury.

Even though there has been improvement in the design and construction of motor vehicles and new roads, speed limits have remained relatively the same. Thus, people driving cars with a high-quality engine, excellent driving skills, ethical practice, and physical conditions are likely to go over the speed limit. However, it does not apply to everyone on the road. Not every person can afford a new car, has a good vision and attention.

Many individuals want speed limits to be raised. However, there are many cases of death and injuries linked to this factor. Since traffic problems tend to emerge from one another, it is important to adhere to the speed limit and stop the occurrence of other issues. Moreover, people with excellent health and stable finance are less vulnerable than the elderly and those who are just learning to drive. General roadway guidelines, however, must administer all citizens, not only a specific part of the population.

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Arguments Against Limitations of Speed Limiters Essay

Driving safety is probably one of the most frequently debated topics. Dependent on the road conditions, motorists run their automobiles at specific speeds. Because of this, there are many divergent views surrounding traffic laws. The restriction of speed restrictions may be the most serious problem drivers face today. Although it is commonly accepted that greater speeds increase the probability of collisions, speedometers do not affect drivers’ views since they are in charge and can choose their speed depending on their beliefs. In addition, speed limiters may have unforeseen safety effects. Lastly, speedometers may exacerbate truck emissions, resulting in pulmonary health issues.

The speed limit depends on the nature of the terrain and the vehicle being driven. While it is true that speed limiters are intended to decrease collisions, this does not indicate that an automobile must maintain the same speed under all circumstances. Sometimes certain frequencies may not be risk-free to travel at. However, vehicles with fewer than eight seats typically do not have speed limitations. Consequently, if these devices are intended to decrease accidents, they should be installed in all vehicles, which is not the case.

In addition, speed limits lead to increased emissions as the net decrease in pollutants is determined on the assumption that traffic flow will not be altered. Pollution will rise if truck speed attenuators exacerbate road congestion or compel other vehicles to make more pace modifications. Car and commercial emissions are significantly related to cancer and cardiovascular disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which decreases lung function and promotes lung cancer (Ramakreshnan et al., 2018). Lastly, speedometers might have unforeseen safety repercussions, as a speed difference between drivers on the roadway can increase contact among automobiles, resulting in risky driving situations. On two-lane highways, speed limiters could heighten safety concerns if cars of any type cannot pass at a safe speed. Accidents are possible as long as a vehicle moves; therefore, drivers would break the established boundaries, resulting in potential collisions.

In conclusion, since traffic administrators establish traffic regulations, they should be able to set speed restrictions suitable for each road. The selection of speed limits should be predicated on statistical information and should strive to support the driver’s estimate of the safest speed for travel. In addition, the speed restriction depends on the topography and the automobile being driven. Therefore, traffic laws should encourage self-compliance, as drivers typically choose their travel pace.

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According to C.Manmohan Reddy, theoretically, a vehicle traveling at a constant 60 km/ph would consume only about one-fourth the fuel than while traveling at 120 kmph because aerodynamic drag increases with the square of the speed (Reddy). Germany's autobahn is free of speed limits for most of its 12,000 km. The Germans' pride in their free-speed autobahn is well known. The autobahn was in the news recently when Greenpeace activists put up banners that read "120", demanding a speed limit of 120 km/h on the Autobahn.

But the powerful German car makers' lobby disagrees.  Car manufacturers argue that emissions from cars are already very low.  Limiting the speed has no additional benefit, they say. One car maker went as far as to say that the idea of speed limits was like "hitting the automobile industry between its legs!" (Connolly). This is not surprising, since car manufacturers promote their products as macho machines. Reckless speed is equated to manliness. Their stance that emissions from cars are low does not address the safety issue or the fuel wastage. Predictably, politicians are on the back foot - unpopular decisions are best postponed indefinitely. The public mood in Germany is also said to be one of "anger" - anger at the perceived erosion of their freedom.

A strong, sustained campaign targeted at the grassroots is the need of the hour. Speed limits are necessary - for the sake of the individual (safety), the country (fuel economy), and the environment (emission reduction). People must be encouraged to drive the car carefully, rarely, and slowly.

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The Land of Ferrari and Lamborghini Has a New Speed Limit: 30 K.P.H.

Bologna has become the first major Italian city to impose the limit on most streets, citing safety and livability. But it’s too slow for some: “A city has to move,” one cabby complained.

By Elisabetta Povoledo

Reporting from Bologna, Italy

When Bologna became the first major Italian city to impose a speed limit of 30 kilometers, or 20 miles, an hour, Luca Mazzoli, a local taxi driver, posted a sign in his cab warning passengers of the change.

He had to, he said grumpily the other day, “to explain why I am driving so slowly.”

Since the limit became enforceable in mid-January, it has taken longer for Mr. Mazzoli to get from Point A to Point B, he claimed, meaning that he has picked up fewer passengers and has found himself stuck in traffic more often.

“A city has to move,” he said.

Critics of the measure say that Bologna risks slowing to a standstill since it became the first major Italian city to join a growing group of municipalities, including Amsterdam; Bilbao, Spain; Brussels; and Lyon, France, that have lowered speed limits from 50 kilometers per hour, about 30 miles per hour, in the belief that the change will lead to safer, healthier and more livable cities.

Bologna’s mayor, Matteo Lepore, included the new speed limit among the campaign promises that helped to get him elected in 2021. Referring to the lower limit, he said, “Driving at 30 is part of a vision of a more democratic and more sustainable use of public space,” where neighborhoods put children and older people first, and investments favor bike paths and public transportation to work toward carbon neutrality.

What’s more, he added during an interview in his art-filled office in City Hall, Italian cities had been built over centuries and were unsuited for a glut of automobiles.

There is also the question of safety. Slower speeds made for fewer deaths, Mr. Lepore said, noting that there had been about 60 traffic-related fatalities in the greater Bologna area in 2022. “Given that, it’s hard to argue that the use of private cars should be without limits,” he said.

But persuading the locals has been a bumpy ride. Bologna is the capital of a region that is home to the makers of some of the fastest and most glamorous cars in the world, including Ferrari, Lamborghini and Pagani.

There have been protests, both on the streets and on social media ( memes and all ), and a petition to hold a referendum on the new speed limit has accumulated just over 53,000 signatures.

The petition was begun by Guendalina Furini, a student at the University of Bologna who was concerned that her daily 25-mile commute into the city would increase substantially. She said that the new limit was “difficult to maintain” and would eventually deter people from visiting Bologna because the risk of getting a ticket was so high.

“The city risks losing out,” she said.

Other protesters said that the real safety risk was having to pay attention to the speed limit on the dashboard, which meant that eyes were not on the road.

“People are very angry,” said Giorgio Gorza, who heads a citizen’s group that has been organizing protests. To make things worse, he added, the enforcement of the speed limit has coincided with traffic delays from construction work on new tram lines around the city, as well as a detour downtown after one of Bologna’s distinctive towers had to be cordoned off.

A protest on Tuesday evening brought many dozens of cranky citizens and cabbies to the streets, where they drove at a snail’s pace in a makeshift parade, loudly honking horns and snarling traffic. The new speed limit “is impossible” to drive at, said Mr. Gorza, an organizer of the protest.

“It’s like standing still, and no one takes a car if you’re going to stay still, if it takes longer than walking,” he said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. “It’s illogical.”

The discontent has been a windfall for the city’s center-right opposition, which has jumped on the protests ahead of European Union elections in June, and on Monday called for a referendum on the limit.

The opposition’s jibes have been amplified by the Italian transport minister, Matteo Salvini, leader of the hard-right League party, who has called the Bologna limit “senseless.” Last week, Mr. Salvini signed a directive that challenged a city’s right to impose a blanket limit of 30 kilometers per hour, arguing, among other things, that restrictions should be decided on a street-by-street basis. Legal experts have been debating the weight that the directive could have on a city’s decisions, and the dispute could play out in the courts.

Bologna City Hall responded to the directive by noting in a statement that its speed limits were in line with existing national legislation. “Our priority is road safety and people’s quality of life,” the statement said.

Mr. Lepore noted during the interview that the new limit affected only 70 percent of the city, with the remaining roads retaining limits of 50 or 70 kilometers per hour. He said the city was open to “corrections” on the speed limit, but not before a period of monitoring.

During the first two weeks, only 25 speeding tickets had been issued, according to City Hall. In this phase, “We’re more about informing rather than giving fines,” Mr. Lepore said.

In 2021, Olbia, in Sardinia, became the first Italian city to set a broad limit of 30 kilometers an hour. There, too, the initial reactions were harsh, recalled the mayor, Settimo Nizzi.

“But it’s right for a mayor to think of the quality of life of his citizens,” Mr. Nizzi said. For months, officials worked alongside residents to extol the benefits of a more walkable, bike-friendly city, “to get them used to this new style of living,” he added.

Walking “is so much better for you,” Mr. Nizzi noted, and now people in Olbia “are happier.”

In Bologna, there are indications that the limit is already having an impact. According to the city, traffic accidents were down 21 percent in the first two weeks of the new limit’s coming into force, compared with the same period last year, which included a fatality. None of the accidents this year have been deadly, according to a city statement issued last week .

Mr. Lepore said he, too, was certain that the positive results of his measure would soon become apparent.

“It won’t take long for people to understand that it was the right choice,” he said.

Elisabetta Povoledo is a reporter based in Rome, covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture of the region. She has been a journalist for 35 years. More about Elisabetta Povoledo

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