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“It’s just a beautiful thing,” said David Williams.  “I took my wife out to dinner last night because I was so ecstatic.”
And:
But biker Mike Combs doesn’t think the speed limit change will make a difference.
“The problem is, we’ve had a lot of crashes but they weren’t going 45, they were going 80,” said Combs.  “If the speed limit was 35, they’d still be going 80.”