Your VDOT Dollars At Work
Yes, they’re doing this on purpose.
The first such lucky locality to have zig-zag lines painted by VDOT on the road is Loudoun County.
Yes, they’re doing this on purpose.
The first such lucky locality to have zig-zag lines painted by VDOT on the road is Loudoun County.
5 Responses to “Your VDOT Dollars At Work”
Riley, I think it’s an interesting idea and a rather inexpensive way to slow motorists in school zones, etc IF it works. I’d love to see some data on this method. We will have to see what Loudoun’s speed trackers find out. I wonder if they tracked speeds and decrease in speed before putting the lines down so they could compare against a baseline?
They should also track speeds again a year out, to make sure the lines are actually effective at reminding folks and not just effective at confusing them initially. I can see people slowing down when the lines first appear because they don’t know what’s going on, but once they get used to it they may return to older and faster habits.
Virtucon reader “Pedro’s Dwarf” emailed me with the following:
So there you have it. It works by freaking you out.
Many things freak me out, so I’m glad that one of them can be useful!:)
It is like the saying on the T-shirt, “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself… and spiders!”
Works over here in the UK, then again, they drive on the wrong side of the road.
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