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by daemonologist 217 days ago
Yeah it always wigs me out going through those super narrow "55 mph" construction zones on US highways. I'm not in a hurry and want to slow down, but if I did I'd have semis blowing past at 75 which feels even more unsafe. Honestly I think they should put up speed cameras.
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Tade0 217 days ago
In my corner of the world it was the workers who demanded section control limiting speed to 70kmph in a segment of highway that was being renovated.

Authorities later said that they only went after 30% of the worst offenders, because otherwise the sheer number of tickets would be to high to process in a reasonable timespan.

Once word got out that the limit was actually enforced, speeds dropped. Now we have section control on some highways and personally I'm a fan, as I was always going around the speed limit anyway.

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bluGill 216 days ago
What do you mean by "section control"? A did a quick search and founds lots of possibilities but none that seem to apply to construction zone speed control.
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Tade0 216 days ago
Average speed camera. "Section control" is how they were named in Austria where I've first encountered them and the term translates to something similar in my language, so I assumed that was the English term, but it appears to be a case of Önglish.
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tialaramex 216 days ago
Yeah, Average Speed Camera is definitely the terminology in the UK.

This is distinct from just a Speed Camera which is measuring over a very short interval from a single camera, the Average Speed Camera involves two or more cameras, recording people passing different points and working out how fast, on average, they must be travelling to have done so.

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scoofy 216 days ago
Enforcement of traffic laws for public safety?!? Clearly you don't have American priorities. You need to focus more on level of service and only level of service.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09666...

https://archive.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/9/9/improvement...

Some of you may die, but that's a price we're willing to make.

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datadrivenangel 216 days ago
In many US states they've started adding speed cameras to work zones!
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