Federal Register: FHWA Changes to MUTCD No Longer Facted Based, Non-Compliant
RE: 23 CFR Parts 634 and 655
[FHWA Docket No. FHWA–2007–28977]
RIN 2125–AF22
National Standards for Traffic Control
Devices; MUTCD
[FHWA Docket No. FHWA–2007–28977]
RIN 2125–AF22
National Standards for Traffic Control
Devices; MUTCD
COMMENT PREFACE
DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE MANUAL’S INTENT AND PRACTICE
These proposed change(s) are a very troubling quickening of the destruction of Congress’ intent as encompassed in the Highway Safety Act of 1966, when Congress created, and then charged the FHWA with “Roadway Safety” oversight on the nation’s highway infrastructure and traffic control thereon.
The Best Highway Safety Practices Institute Rejects Clarion Calls for Failed Policy II: National 55 mph Speed Limit
08/07/08 08:00 Filed in: Distracted drivingNation Speed Limit
PORTLAND, Ore., July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reenacting the failed
1974 National Maximum Speed Law is not a solution. The solution is to properly
engineer our roadways to facilitate the optimum flow of traffic, a
prescription that would reduce our total vehicular carbon footprint and
improve roadway safety. The future is in educating motorists to drive safely
via safety campaigns that promote keep right except to pass, yielding,
courtesy, and safety practices that are based in fact! Programs that create
jobs, reduce our carbon footprint, pollution, and improve the safety and
efficiency of our infrastructure.
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1974 National Maximum Speed Law is not a solution. The solution is to properly
engineer our roadways to facilitate the optimum flow of traffic, a
prescription that would reduce our total vehicular carbon footprint and
improve roadway safety. The future is in educating motorists to drive safely
via safety campaigns that promote keep right except to pass, yielding,
courtesy, and safety practices that are based in fact! Programs that create
jobs, reduce our carbon footprint, pollution, and improve the safety and
efficiency of our infrastructure.
Read More...
Bad Roads and the US Department of Transportation About to Eclipse Bad Drivers as the Greatest Danger to Our Safety
08/01/08 08:00 Filed in: Distracted drivingPoor Practices
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In a time when we struggle as a nation to reign in terrorism and conduct wars in Iraq and Afghanistan maybe we should also focus on threats to our safety here, too. Apathy and kowtowing to special interests by our own USDOT is responsible for more deaths and injures each year than all our enemies combined! Despite its public campaigns that blame everything on driver behavior, an astonishing one in four (10,000 plus) of our highway fatalities now are directly attributable to its own negligence and refusal to implement Congress' safety mandates, and it's only going to get worse!
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