“Drivers react to flashing alerts and routinely self-correct”
Only if they are paying more attention to the big screen than to their GPS little screen.
By Don McLoud, Equiment World's Better Roads
A new interchange to Interstate 15 near Las Vegas is being built to relieve traffic and reduce traffic noise for nearby residents.
The $33.7 million interchange at Starr Avenue will include six lanes, landscaped medians and bike lanes and is scheduled to be completed in mid-2019. The project completes construction of Starr Avenue between Las Vegas Boulevard and Dean Martin Drive and adds a bridge on I-15 over Starr Avenue. By diverting drivers under I-15, the new interchange will reduce traffic noise for neighbors, the Nevada Department of Transportation says.
The interchange provides new and improved freeway access for local businesses and residents, said NDOT Director Rudy Malfabon. It additionally improves safety and connectivity through reduced freeway and surface street gridlock.
The project in unincorporated Clark County also includes sidewalks, crosswalks, lighting and traffic signals. Las Vegas Paving won the general contract.
The interchange is part of a $1.3 billion project begun in 2007 to improve the I-15 south corridor.
Are wrong way signs posted now?
How much does this cost verses regular wrong way signs.
Does a sensor save money over a flashing wrong way sign that is always on?
Is there some other road design flaw at work here?
Auto-targeted TOW II would do a better job.
Did they field test their shiny new toy with drunk illegals? That's usually who's driving the wrong way up the freeway.
Which why so many try to "beat the train" at grade crossings.
Wife on phone to elderly husband, “Be careful driving home. A wrong way driver has been reported on the freeway!”
Husband to wife, “A wrong way driver my ass! There’s dozens of them!”
This disrupts the balance of natural selection, the wrong-way drivers will ultimately have a better chance to breed with the high dollar warning system improvement.
The only thing that makes sense is to deploy this in Vegas, I’m sure they have more than their fair share of this, given the possible range and scope of the “entertainment opportunities” there.
Hope they put it in Spanish.
Many of these wrong way drivers are suicides.
Wrong way drivers are why it is best to stay out of the fast lane if you don’t see taillights directly in front of you (drunks think they are in the slow lane, closing speeds are very fast). This info courtesy of Tom Sullivan who is a talk show host now but was a highway patrol officer at one time. He usually gives this advise every holiday season.
The results where best explained as 'Moth To Flame' syndrome
Sh** faced drivers seem to home in on shiny objects and take them out.