State Patrol: As Wisconsin speed limit changes, policies won’t

More than 700 miles of interstate across Wisconsin are about to see higher speed limits, but the State Patrol says its procedures won’t change.

A law signed last week ups the limit to 70 mph on 4-lane interstate highways over the coming weeks, including I-39/90 from the Illinois border to Milwaukee County, 1-90/94 and U.S. 151.

Nearly 500 speed limits signs will change, but troopers say their policing policies won’t.  Officers have been notified whether any stretch of interstate in their area will be imp acted, but that’s as far as their conversations have gone. Trooper Kent Hamoud said as far as they’re concerned, no matter what the number – speeding is still speeding.

“Our enforcement is not going to change,” Hamoud said. “We’re still going to enforce the speed limit, and we’re still going to take the action that we always have.”

Speed limits will change gradually as the Department of Transportation replaces signs highway by highway, meaning until that number changes, you speedometer shouldn’t either.