The speed limit is reduced even further, to 40 miles per hour, at the point where NM 502 begins climbing a series of switchbacks before intersecting with NM 4. The move to lower speed limits on U.S. 84-285 comes more than two years after the 1996 State Legislature approved legislation giving the state highway department authority to raise speed limits on New Mexico highways. Gov. Gary Johnson signed the legislation into law March 6, 1996. But the bill also gave the highway department the authority to set lower speed limits on roads if studies determine a lower speed limit is safer, if there is an increase in accidents and fatalities and if traffic volume and the amount of side road traffic warrant a lower speed limit. Law enforcement officers also can arbitrarily reduce speed limits if highway conditions warrant.
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But the finish was good enough to land in the top 10 of all finishers. Gallegos was the 2,055 person to cross the finish line of the more than 32,000 runners, he said. The New York City Marathon starts on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in Staten Island and takes runners through the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan before finishing in Central Park. I had 4,000 people in front of me. It was a little harder than I thought it would be.