People on South Dakota interstates can legally drive 80 miles per hour beginning Wednesday. State lawmakers included the 5-mile increase in a transportation funding bill. Governor Dennis Daugaard signed the measure. Most bills approved by the state legislature and the governor take effect at the start of the state’s fiscal year on July 1st. But the transportation bill has an emergency clause, so the law goes into effect on April 1st.
South Dakota Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. Craig Price joined Dakota Midday and discussed what the speed limit change means for traffic safety and law enforcement.