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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Getting There

75 mph means you’ll shave off eight minutes

In today's paper, we have an article about a proposal to increase the speed limit on I-90 to 75 mph between the Spokane County line and Ellensburg.

We have a need for speed here at Getting There, so we decided to crunch the numbers a bit. It turns out this increase in speed will save you just over eight minutes.

Eight minutes. Technically, 8.4 minutes. Or eight minutes and 24 seconds.

Which means you can listen to the song below almost, but not quite, two times.

A quick primer on our math. The distance between the county line and Ellensburg is 147 miles. The delta between drivers clocking in at 70 mph and 75 mph is .14 hours, which equates to 8.4 minutes.

You're welcome.

h/t Dave Wasson for brainstorming this desperately needed journalistic endeavor.



Nicholas Deshais
Joined The Spokesman-Review in 2013. He is the urban issues reporter, covering transportation, housing, development and other issues affecting the city. He also writes the Getting There transportation column and The Dirt, a roundup of construction projects, new businesses and expansions. He previously covered Spokane City Hall.

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