Gary V
No. That's up to Ohio and Kentucky residents to do that (come on Sherman, what are you waiting for ;) )
Seriously, residents of states that have "speed limit cap" laws should talk with their representatives in state government to get those laws repealed. There's no point in saying that interstates cannot have higher limits than 55, 65, or 70 mph regardless of what the engineering study concluded. In West Virginia, there are no laws that set a maximum speed limit for a given road clbutt. All interstate speed limits are determined by the "commissioner of highways" (state secretary of transportation) on the basis of a "traffic and engineering study."
Of course, WV has a "speed limit floor" law for it's interstates which states that the speed limit cannot be posted any lower than 55 mph (though I'm not sure how those interstates going through Charleston managed to have 50 mph limits for so long with that law in effect).
Many roads could easily be posted at 75 mph if not higher. I mean, if 85th percentile speeds in WV, of all places, are between 70 and 75 mph, there's no reason why rural interstates in other areas that don't have so many curves and grades cannot be posted higher.
