The first maximum speed law for Mexico was created in 1903 by then president Porfirio Díaz. It established a maximum of for small and crowded streets, and elsewhere.

Current speed limits are: in parking lots and residential areas. in streets with no speed limit. on urban arterial roads (ejes, calzadas, beltways and freeways). in avenues with no speed limit. on rural two-lane roads. on two-lane highways. on major highways inside cities. on major highways leaving or approaching towns or cities. on major highways.

No Mexican highway allows going beyond 110 km/h, but the speed limit is enforced generally above only.

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