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Oregon had been among a handful of states where the highest speed limit was still 65 mph. Rep. Phil Barnhart, a Eugene Democrat, lamented the bill to raise the limit. Barnhart harkened to the 1970s, when speed limits were lowered under President Jimmy Carterâs administration amid a national oil shortage.
Under pressure from the U.S., the province lowered the limit to 100 km/h in 1976. And thatâs where it remains today, even though most other jurisdictions have since raised theirs. Most U.S. states have a 70 mph (113 km/h) limit. The highest speed limit in North America is 85 mph (140 km/h) on Texasâs State Highway 130. Ontarioâs low limit is often defended on the basis of speed elasticity â the assumption that drivers will automatically exceed the posted limit by a certain margin.