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House committee adopts amendment to raise speeds on targeted rural stretches and passes HB312 9–5
Summary
The House Transportation Committee approved an amendment to HB312 setting a 75 mph daytime/70 mph nighttime limit on specified rural segments and passed the bill as amended on a 9–5 roll-call vote. The measure excludes commercial (truck) speed changes and includes local taper zones near towns.
The Montana House Transportation Committee on Friday approved an amendment and then passed House Bill 312 as amended, a measure that raises speed limits on a defined rural stretch of highway and sets clarified daytime and nighttime limits.
The committee adopted amendment 3 12.1.1, which narrows the change to routes 10 miles or longer and sets a 75 miles-per-hour daytime limit and a 70 miles-per-hour nighttime limit for qualifying noncommercial vehicles; permanent special speed zones (for curves, construction, school zones and similar safety reasons) remain exempt. "It changes the distance to 10 miles or greater, and it's not subject to permanent special speed zones,"…
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