Three bills that appeared speeding toward passage hit a dead end this week at the Iowa statehouse.
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The bills would have raised the speed limits on Iowa’s two-lane highways and on the interstates. Three-member subcommittees in the Iowa House approved those moves, but the bills did not have enough support to pass the 21-member House Transportation Committee…
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That’s Representative Josh Byrnes (like the word “burns”), a Republican from Osage who is chairman of the House Transportation Committee. Byrnes says some members of the committee balked at raising the speed limits because of safety concerns.
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Others opposed the move because of the price tag for new speed limit signs.