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October 13, 2020October 16, 2020

Poor Safety Standards at the Federal Highway Administration

‘Modern roundabouts’ were invented in Britain in the 1960s and these were a dramatic improvement on the rotaries and traffic circles of old. For whatever inexplicable reason, they were not introduced by the USA until the early 2000s — following over 40 years’ of prior use and best-practice development elsewhere.

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019

LGBTQ rainbow-colored crosswalks

Many people think multi-colored crosswalks are cute. The Federal Highways Administration [FHWA] on the other hand, thinks that colorful pavement markings can obscure or perhaps distract from other essential safety markings.

One question with arty crosswalks concerns their conspicuity, or lack thereof, in the dark, especially as it would seem very unlikely that the colored paint will contain a high-glass-bead content or similar reflective treatment. Many colors are hard to see in the dark, even when illuminated by street lights. [Wikimedia Commons]

October 9, 2019October 10, 2019

Schoharie Limousine Tragedy — Shocking Revelations about Mavis Tires

A few days ago, as a retired traffic patrol police officer who has investigated many serious and fatal crashes, I decided to take a closer look at the scene of the tragic limousine crash at Schoharie, NY.

This is the first of the hill warning signs. It clearly has had warning flags attached above it at some stage, to draw more attention to it, but these have long-since fallen apart. (Copyright image, 2019.)

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