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Speed limits in Connecticut are normally 65 mph on rural freeways; up to 55 mph on rural divided and undivided highways. In urban areas speed limits vary from 25 mph on residential streets and central business districts to 30â40 mph on arterial roadways, and from 45 to 55 mph on urban freeways.n Pennsylvania the maximum freeway speed limit is generally 65 mph (105 km/h), with a select few sections of rural freeway and parts of the Pennsylvania Turnpike signed at 70 mph (113 km/h). The speed limit on urban freeways ranges from a low of 50 mph in downtown Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to 65 mph in some areas.
All of the roads in the US have a speed limit, the average being around 75 mph, with some areas in Texas and Utah reaching 80 mph. Road speed limits are used in most countries -- and are endorsed by the World Health Organization -- as a way to reduce road casualties. The highest speed limit ever introduced was in Abu Dhabi between 2005 and 2010 where the limit was set at 99 mph. The speed limit was reduced in 2011 to 87 mph. In Germany, some autobahns have no speed limit, but an advisory limit of 130 km/h (80 mph) was established in 2008.