School speed limits are unnecessarily complicated. So many times I’ll pass a school speed limit sign and sometimes it’s just “while flashing” which is easy to understand quickly. However, other times it has in very small print conditions such as during certain times or during weekdays or even the really vague “when children present”. Sometimes I won’t notice all of the print before I pass the sign, so I’ll just do the slower school speed limit and the driver behind me starts tailgaiting me because I’m going under the limit. So I suggest instead of having these limits be conditional school speed limits, they should just be the normal limits all the time. It wouldn’t hurt people to slow down when kids aren’t present, so just make the speed limit reduced all the time on roads around the school. Additionally, if this was the case, drivers would be used to going slow and wouldn’t forget to slow down during school hours
I agree, but in some states like where I live mow they have some weird school set ups. Speed limit is 55mph on the road if it isn’t during school start/end. So while I think it’d be fine if people went 20 there all the time, there would likely be a lot of backlash from people saying 'i could to 60 there every day for the last 20 years on my way to and from work (it leads to a major interstate) and now you want me to go 20!
Honestly it is just a poor setup for the school. Should have built a road around the back where you directed all the traffic
You know, I was about to say that we should go back to no school zones like in the 80s since the speed limit was always just 30 around school zones anyway and people had to slow anyway when school let out because of all the traffic.
And I was wondering why school zones were created in the first place since there was no problem to fix. But now I remember that schools were once always in residential areas. But with school zones today, they can stick them on airport runways if they want to.
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