• School-Zone Sign Fury: 1 Sign With 6 Times Too Much for Detroit Area Drivers
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[quote=ABC News] For Michigan resident Greg Smith, seeing a school-zone sign telling him to slow down to 25 mph did not irk him the first time. Nor did it bother him the second, third, fourth or fifth time either. But when Smith saw that the one sign posted near his home in the Detroit suburb of White Lake listed six separate times that drivers had to step off the gas, it was too much. “You practically have to come to a stop to read it,” Smith told The Oakland Press about the sign erected on Jan. 12 to guide drivers around a nearby elementary, middle and high school. “I’m thinking of printing out the speeds and attaching it to my dashboard,” he said. The sign instructs drivers to slow down to 25 mph between 6:49-7:15, 7:52-8:22 and 8:37-9:07 during the morning and 2:03-2:33, 3:04-3:34 and 3:59-4:29 during the afternoon on school days. Smith sent a picture of himself standing beside the sign to the paper, which then posted it on its Facebook page. More than 100 comments flowed in online saying the complicated sign was, among other things, a speed trap, driving hazard and not in sync with the start and finish times of the three nearby schools. The citizen outrage also sparked a dispute among local officials. White Lake officials said the township did not install the sign, while the county’s Road Commission blamed the school district for its unwillingness to pay for an electric sign that would eliminate the need for the printed time ranges. The city’s police department has now organized a meeting between the White Lake Township supervisor, the school district and the county road commission to discuss the sign, the Press reports. “We are aware of it and trying to resolve it,” Ed Harris, White Lake Police Chief, told the paper.[/quote] [url="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/school-zone-sign-fury-1-sign-with-6-time-ranges-for-3-schools-too-much-for-detroit-area-drivers/"]Source[/url]. Here is the sign: [IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b196/Starmenclock/school.jpg[/IMG] Do I need to say more?
fuck it, just drive 25 mph until you think you are clear.
do they really need to be so specific? why not just have from 6:30-4:30?
[QUOTE=MightyMax;34730444]do they really need to be so specific? why not just have from 6:30-4:30?[/QUOTE] For safety reasons obviously. :rolleye:
We have one that blinks a yellow light if the 25mph speed limit is in effect.
Why not have an automated system like this: [IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/119m3b5.jpg[/IMG] that flashes at the appropriate times? [editline]00[/editline] [QUOTE=peterson;34730659]We have one that blinks a yellow light if the 25mph speed limit is in effect.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/29yhyr4.gif[/IMG]
Why don't they just do it how it is where I live? I believe it's something like 7-9 and 2-4 you have to drive 25mph.
It's a trick. Drivers slow down to below 20 mph to read the sign.
[QUOTE=MightyMax;34730444]do they really need to be so specific? why not just have from 6:30-4:30?[/QUOTE] Yeah ours just says "30 km/hr 8AM - 4PM weekdays"
[QUOTE=Zeke129;34731054]Yeah ours just says "30 km/hr 8AM - 4PM weekdays"[/QUOTE] About that, isn't 25 mph like 40 km/h? That's unsafe in a school zone.
It's 15mph here for school zones.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;34730685]Why not have an automated system like this: [IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/119m3b5.jpg[/IMG] that flashes at the appropriate times? [editline]00[/editline] [IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/29yhyr4.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] Because its Detroit.
ahaha holy crap we have signs with the times on it all over detroit but I never saw one like that
[QUOTE=BackSapper;34731437]About that, isn't 25 mph like 40 km/h? That's unsafe in a school zone.[/QUOTE] Depends on the type of road
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;34730685]Why not have an automated system like this: [IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/119m3b5.jpg[/IMG] that flashes at the appropriate times? [editline]00[/editline] [IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/29yhyr4.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] [quote]the county’s Road Commission blamed the school district for its unwillingness to pay for an electric sign that would eliminate the need for the printed time ranges.[/quote]
[img]http://www.autoscuolafutura.com/025.gif[/img] You don't have anything like this, do you?
[QUOTE=lapsus_;34731975][img]http://www.autoscuolafutura.com/025.gif[/img] You don't have anything like this, do you?[/QUOTE] Our equivalent afaik. [img]http://www.ricesigns.com/real_pictures/school_crossing_signs.jpg[/img]
My friend and I drove past this sign a few times.. Seems like we were speeding. Arrest me now.
Unwilling to pay for the snazzy electric signs they use here? Wat? What kind of half-baked school district sets themselves up for problems and confusion like that? also, that's an absolute nightmare for the officers that have to enforce it, anyone can merely claim their in-dash clock was three minutes fast or something and be off-the-hook. Someone tell that school district to stop being cheap bastards and buy the flashing lights.
Our signs just say to reduce your speed to 25 MPH 'When children are present', which makes the most sense to me...
ours is 15 when children are present
Ours are just 25 MPH normally, and since schools are in residential areas generally here, people drive that slow anyway, only idiots drive faster than 25 MPH in a residential area.
That sign looks like a joke to me.
Its 31mph in school zones where I live (50kmh)
Where I live it's "30km/h when children present"
[QUOTE=TestECull;34732899]Unwilling to pay for the snazzy electric signs they use here? Wat? What kind of half-baked school district sets themselves up for problems and confusion like that? also, that's an absolute nightmare for the officers that have to enforce it, anyone can merely claim their in-dash clock was three minutes fast or something and be off-the-hook. Someone tell that school district to stop being cheap bastards and buy the flashing lights.[/QUOTE] It's the fucking [i]Detroit Public Schools[/i] - you'd understand if you lived anywhere near here. They don't even have money to afford textbooks so richer districts around them often end up donating books and teachers in good faith (which they get trial books for free from companies because they're rich).
[IMG]http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/www.ign.com/13679/2011/09/Adam-Jensen2-300x241.jpg[/IMG] [B]I never asked for this.[/B]
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;34735776]It's the fucking [i]Detroit Public Schools[/i] - you'd understand if you lived anywhere near here. They don't even have money to afford textbooks so richer districts around them often end up donating books and teachers in good faith (which they get trial books for free from companies because they're rich).[/QUOTE] Pretty much. Seriously, spend some time in Google Maps or something. They literally have tons of schools they closed and abandoned due to (usually) funding issues. [url]http://detroiturbex.com/content/schools/index.html[/url] This is a pretty interesting site. Bonus if your interested urbex stuff.
Hours both have the flashing light AND time placard for redundancy. Also to add half the ones around here are completely redundant except for the ban on cellphone use in active school zones since half of them are on streets where the limits is already 25 mph
[QUOTE=BlackCrow;34736097][IMG]http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/www.ign.com/13679/2011/09/Adam-Jensen2-300x241.jpg[/IMG] [B]I never asked for this.[/B][/QUOTE] this story has practically zero connection to Deus Ex, please restrict your Deus Ex jokes to articles on transhumanism alternatively do away with them entirely, they're ridiculously overdone anyway [editline]16th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Broseph_;34736324]Hours both have the flashing light AND time placard for redundancy. Also to add half the ones around here are completely redundant except for the ban on cellphone use in active school zones since half of them are on streets where the limits is already 25 mph[/QUOTE] 25 MPH speed limits are utter shit anyway, cripes if your kid is so fucking dumb he gets run over by a car going (god forbid) 26 in a 25
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