Mayor Vince Gray has ordered that speed limits on a segment of Benning Road NE and along D.C. 295 be raised.

D.C. may soon raise the speed limit on two roads that have generated tens of thousands of speeding camera tickets.

Whilst browsing through our usual feed of transit news, we came upon this USA Today article about the Drive 55 campaign — it was of modest interest, but nothing that seemed to be too D.C.-area related. After all, the speed limit for all our major highways in Maryland and Virginia have been set at 65 since the national limit was raised by Congress in November 1995 (see page 20 of this PDF), and only a…