State agency considers 85 mph speed limit on toll road  HOUSTON
(AP) - Transportation officials in Texas are testing a new
41-mile segment of highway to see whether it would be safe to
post the state's first 85 mph speed limit, setting it on a path
to have the highest posted speed limit in the U.S.  The Texas
Department of Transportation is considering the move on a
portion of state Highway 130 that would run north-south between
Austin and Seguin, a town just east of San Antonio, spokesman
Mark Cross said Thursday.  The agency is looking at the toll
road's topography, checking what speed most drivers are
traveling on existing parts of the highway and ensuring the
access points and cross-sections would still be safe with an 85
mph speed limit, Cross said.  If Texas decides to go this route,
that segment would have the highest speed limit in the country,
according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration.   Right now, only
sparsely populated areas of West Texas h