INFRASTRUCTURES * USA - America's Fastest Roads

Where summer driving season means speeds well above 90 miles per hour

New York,NY,USA -Forbes, by Jon Bruner -12 July 2010: ... On a few stretches of road around the country, drivers will stomp their accelerators and traffic will move at sustained speeds of 90 miles per hour or more... To find America's fastest roads, Inrix, a traffic data company, first looked for stretches of roadway where motorists routinely drive fast, then it found the speed range at which each roadway's fastest 5% of drivers travel. Inrix multiplied that figure by the length of each roadway to make the final ranking. The result is a list of roads where drivers open their throttles over fairly long distances... America's fastest road:

* Arizona Route 79 Northbound Between Saguaro National Park and Phoneix. Cars consistently travel at speeds of 87-90 miles per hour. Top speed clocked by Inrix: 115 miles per hour. Length of corridor: 39 miles...

* The second-fastest road is also Arizona Route 79, heading southbound...

* Arizona also claims the third-fastest road: Route 77, which follows a narrow strip of green terrain alongside the San Pedro River as it winds through the desert... (Images from forbes: Arizona route 79)