Radar signs. Speed Displays. Speedcheck signs – what ever you prefer to call them, these ubiquitous traffic monitoring and feedback devices work. Study after study has shown that radar signs are highly effective at slowing traffic – even years after they’ve been installed. And we know why they are so effective. They have a [...]

  If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you have undoubtedly reviewed various discussions on what makes radar speed displays so effective. It usually comes down to their unique ability to grab driver attention and redirect their thoughts to their current rate of speed. So the link between speed displays and counteracting driver distraction [...]

Here’s a whammy out of left field.  Traffic fatalities shot up 13.5 percent in the first few months of this year. That’s after a steady decline in first quarter fatalities that began in 2006 and an overall steady decline that has continued since the early 1970s. So what happened? No one seems to know for [...]

  Before they can tackle their speeding problems, it looks like the city of Belleair, Florida needs to tackle their “how do we tackle” problem. The town’s mayor and four commissioners met a few weeks back to talk about putting together a traffic calming policy – a systematic way to prioritize projects and solve those [...]

  Do radar speed signs in your neighborhood help drive up the price of your home? Consider this. Several recent studies have directly linked home prices with a neighborhood’s “walkability” – that is, how easy it is for locals to stay on their daily schedule and get stuff done without having to get in their [...]

  Looks like we can add Spokane Valley to the list of believers. For years, the city struggled to bring down the speeds of drivers passing through the city’s various school zones. Prominently displayed speed limit signs didn’t do the trick. Neither did regular patrolling by the Spokane Valley Police Department. The police were writing [...]

Like it or not, certain locations have stereotypical reputations. New Yorkers are rude. Texans are loud. And Boston drivers….well, let’s just say you wouldn’t want your grandma to be caught driving there during morning rush hour. Real or not, Boston drivers surely have one of the worst reputations in the country.  All you have to [...]

If you’ve been reading the “traffic press” lately, you’ve probably heard that many of the parents of Blue Angel Elementary School in Pensacola, Florida are pretty excited about some new radar speed signs installed around their elementary school. The displays are two of six SpeedCheck signs that have recently been installed in the surrounding Escambia [...]

  Wanted to share a nice Facebook Post from the Clinton Daily Democrat (Click here).  Here’s to a safer year ahead for drivers and pedestrians and an increase in walkable routes to school in 2012.

. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the use of cell phones while driving is the “new DUI”…”an epidemic.” This follows a new study that indicates driver distraction being a contributing factor to some 3,000 plus roadway fatalities last year alone. As a result, the NTSB called for a nationwide ban on the [...]