I saw a short piece pop up last night....talking over an emergency autobahn speed limit down in the Baden-Württemberg region (central region near Stuttgart).
The local authorities are ordering a 'special' speed limit on Autobahn 81 and Autobahn 7.
Reason? Heat.
The Germans have a method of autobahn paving....where they leave the concrete base in place upon repaving, and just put a layer of asphalt on top of that. Normally, there's no negative to this. However, in periods of harsh heat (as the last week has been).....it's likely to have the asphalt 'pop-out'. You could be driving along at 150 kph (93 mph) and suddenly hit some area where there's three inches of asphalt gone from a six-foot circular area.
So the speed limit for numerous on the two roads.....is limited to 80 kph (49 mph).
More of these limits? For the next ten days, it's expected to be fairly hot across Germany. You will see more communities stage a 80 kph deal.
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