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“The median state-designated speed limit in cities in 1906 was 10 miles per hour, and local authorities usually could (and often did) set still lower limits.44 States were slow to raise limits; Indiana's limit in cities, 8 miles per hour in 1906, had been raised only to 10 miles per hour by 1919.45 Police usually enjoyed the support of city newspapers for their low speed limits.”

Peter D. Norton, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
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