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War on Cars Watch for January 9, 2019
January 9, 2019
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85TH PERCENTILE, Automated Traffic Enforcement, DISTRACTED DRIVING, Infrastructure, LEGISLATION, MUTCD, NHTSA, NMA, OOIDA, PRIVACY, racial profiling, Real ID, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, Road Diets, SAFETY, SCHOOL BUS, School Bus Cameras, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, TICKET REVENUE, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion, traffic safety, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO, Yellow Light Duration
Happiness makes the world slow down
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. At the fork was a new stop sign. The view was clear up both forks, no traffic visible, but we were supposed to stop. Why? The usual reason for an all-way stop in a sparsely populated area. To make residents happy. The town’s engineer had approved an all-way […]
It’s a trap
We were driving down Beaver Street in Salem when suddenly we were faced with a pair of DO NOT ENTER signs and no place to turn around. As the driver made a dangerous K-turn, I explained that the signs were illegal. Under Massachusetts law, roads can’t turn from two-way to one-way except at an intersection. […]
How closed is “closed”?
Brookfield, Massachusetts officials posted a fake bridge closed sign to keep nonresidents from using an open bridge. MassDOT said they should take the sign down. That was unusual. The DOT hates to tell towns “no”, even though policing sign use is part of its job. Maybe there’s one guy in the Worcester office who let […]
Dynamic lawbreaking
Here’s one more in the signs-as-toys category. Starting January 1, Connecticut law requires handicap parking signs to use a “dynamic” symbol (a man falling out of a wheelchair) instead of the International Symbol of Access (a man sitting in a wheelchair). The Federal Highway Administration previously ruled that the new “dynamic” design is not allowed […]
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