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Improving Safety Issues Associated with Speeding 18
Strategies Number of
participants
who
identified
this strategy
as the most
effective in
this group.
Use automated speed
enforcement at plazas (and
possibly suspend tags for
excessive or repeat violators)
Increase enforcement presence at
plazas.
Use rumble strips in advance of
plazas.
Double fines for speeding in the
vicinity of plazas.
Use real-time “YOUR SPEED”
signs in each lane at the plaza.
Use gates downstream of plazas
so that vehicles are required to
stop - or at a minimum slow down
- while waiting for the gate to lift.
Equip maintenance vehicles with
red lights (amber on front / red on
back) to reduce vehicle speeds
near maintenance activities and
incident response activities.
Post speed limit signs at each
lane as a reminder to motorists.
Paint the speed limit on the
pavement upstream of plazas.
Use transverse pavement
markings to “trick” motorists into
slowing down (markings are
spaced progressively closer to
provide the illusion that a vehicle
is speeding up).
Use regulatory speed limit signs
instead of advisory signs at
% Number of
participants
who identified
this strategy as
the second
most effective
in this group.
% Number of
participants
who
identified this
strategy as
the third
most
effective in
this group.
% Number of
participants who
identified this
strategy as one
of the top three
most effective
strategies in this
group.
5 25% 5 25% 6 30% 16 80%
2 10% 3 15% 6 30% 11 55%
6 30% 3 15% 0 0% 9 45%
2 10% 2 10% 3 15% 7 35%
3 15% 1 5% 2 10% 6 30%
1 5% 2 10% 0 0% 3 15%
0 0% 1 5% 1 5% 2 10%
1 5% 0 0% 1 5% 2 10%
0 0% 1 5% 0 0% 1 5%
0 0% 1 5% 0 0% 1 5%
0 0% 0 0% 1 5% 1 5%
18
Note that strategies discussed here are presented in Section 4 of this report in the category of “Reducing
Speeding.”
Appendix G – Agency Workshop / Workshop Ratings Page G-9
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