Drivers will soon be able to legally travel faster on some parts of Texas interstates.

The Texas Department of Transportation recommended to the Texas Transportation Commission that speed limits on certain stretches of interstates 10, 20, 27, 30, 35, 37, 40, 44 and 45 be raised from 70 mph to 75 mph.

The state is putting up new signs in specified areas, and the new speed limit is not in effect in those areas until the signs are in place.

New 75 mph speed limits will be located on:

I-10: 289 miles across El Paso, Gillespie, Kerr, Kendall, Bexar, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Gonzales, Fayette, Colorado, Austin, Jefferson and Orange counties

I-20: 423 miles across Crane, Ector, Midland, Martin, Howard, Mitchell, Nolan, Taylor, Callahan, Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Van Zandt, Smith, Gregg and Harrison counties

I-27: 109 miles across Lubbock, Hale, Swisher and Randall counties

I-30: 139 miles across Hunt, Hopkins, Franklin, Titus, Morris and Bowie counties

I-35: 106 miles across Webb, Medina, Atascosa, Bexar, Hill and Cooke counties

I-37: 130 miles across Nueces, San Patricio, Live Oak, Atascosa and Bexar counties

I-40: 166 miles across Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Carson, Gray, Donley and Wheeler counties

I-44: 11 miles across Wichita County

I-45 : 143 miles across Walker, Madison, Leon, Freestone and Navarro counties

TxDOT is continuing to study speeds on U.S. highways, state highways, farm-to-market and ranch-to-market roads to determine if speed limits should be raised on any stretches.