…to publicize their newest safety feature, the end-of-queue warning system. Our RoadQuake 2 Temporary Portable Rumble Strip is a crucial part of that system; we were delighted to be included in the media event.
Thanks, TxDOT!
TxDOT Facebook Page, end-of-queue warning system
“High-tech work zone system debuts on I-35″, Waco Tribune, May 3, 2013
“TxDOT Paris debuts portable rumble strips”, eparistexas.com, May 3, 2013
“TxDOT unveils high-tech warning system on I-35 Work Zone”, Hill Country News, May 2, 2013
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From the article:
“The plans are being touted as one of the “largest, most aggressive construction seasons to date” with a price tag totaling about $2.3 billion.
ODOT will begin or continue construction of nearly 1,000 projects statewide.”
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From the article:
“Cochen had reportedly just displayed the stop sign for northbound traffic when the Suzuki sideswiped her.”
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From the article:
“Barboza was traveling at a high rate of speed and didn’t slow as he approached the construction zone. When he realized he was approaching the rear of the Chevy, and couldn’t stop, Barboza attempted to veer to the left, but sideswiped Cranmore’s Chevy before entering into the eastbound lane of traffic.”
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This is a follow-up to an article we posted the other day. Lee Rizor, an Ohio DOT worker, was killed on Monday in a work zone accident.
From this article:
“Troopers investigating…say there are no signs that the driver of a tanker truck slowed down before he hit an Ohio Department of Transportation worker…”
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From the article:
“…45 percent of Texas highway contractors had motor vehicles crash into their work zones during the past year. This is higher than the national average of 38 percent.”
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From the editorial:
“The Ohio Department of Transportation is alarmed by the increase in deaths in highway construction zones around the state. There were eight such deaths — both drivers and construction workers — in 2009 but twice that number in 2011.
This year, as a pilot project, ODOT will try to reduce the risks by using variable speed limit signs in construction zones for 10 projects spanning 11 counties (Stark isn’t one of them) while workers are present.”
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From the article:
“Lee Rizor, the ODOT worker, was operating a backhoe on the right berm about 9:20 a.m. when a commercialvehicle drove off the right side of the roadway, striking the backhoe, troopers said. The commercialvehicle then flipped over and became engulfed in flames.
Rizor, 27, of Mt. Gilead was declared dead at the scene.”
And this:
“Ironically, the state Highway Patrol issued a pressrelease last week urging work zone safety and revealing that highway construction work zone deaths doubled from 2009 to 2011.”
Our condolences to the Rizor family.
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From the article:
“While PennDOT officials work to make roadways safer, they are battling an “epidemic” of distracted driving. That’s how Rick Mason, District 3 publicrelations officer, described the problem, much of it focused on texting while driving.”
We have a product that could really help, at least in work zones.
We’ve tried for a couple years to have PennDOT approve our newest work zone traffic safety countermeasure, our RoadQuake 2 Temporary Portable Rumble Strip. Designed to reduce accidents and save lives, our temporary portable rumble strip alerts drivers to changing road conditions. Like a work zone.
They have yet to approve, much less mandate the use of RoadQuake 2 on their highways. We suspect they haven’t approved RoadQuake 2 yet because we are the only company making a temporary portable rumble strip, and they probably don’t want to approve or specify a sole-source product.
Well, if our suspicions are correct, we say: tell that to the families of those drivers, passengers and workers who were killed in work zone accidents in Pennsylvania.
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This article describes another countermeasure Saskatchewan will deploy as a result of the death of Ashley Richards.
We’ve posted about this tragedy several times. Ashley Richards, a flagger, 18 years old, pregnant, in the first hours of her first day on the jobsite, was killed in a work zone by a driver, August 24, 2012.
It is notable and commendable that the province of Saskatchewan reacted to her death swiftly and effectively. They took immediate and positive action.
It’s as if both citizens and government, shocked by Ashley’s death, said in once voice, “We will not stand for this. This will never happenagain.”
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