‘Speed limit sign ban’ quietly rolled out under new law as
$450,000 worth of warnings blacked out...
In Indiana, a new law has banned the use of variable speed limits – as almost half-a-million dollars worth of signs are blacked out. The new legislation came into effect more than four weeks ago, but many are unaware of the change.
A speed limit sign with a blank digital display next to a highway is now the new speed limit? . The signs are now blacked-out using metal covers. Along Interstate 465, which circles Indianapolis, Indiana, there are 62 variable speed limit signs, bought by the state in 2024. The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) spent a total of $446,400 to introduce the signs, they said, would improve safety by controlling traffic speeds based on weather or incidents.
Now, just two years later, they have been outlawed under a new ban on July 1. According to the House Enrolled Act 1200, “the Indiana Department of Transportation may not implement variable speed limits, or use electronic variable speed limit signs”.
Ya see shit like this and your brain starts to bleed. You realize the State just pissed away a half-million bucks, and you wonder why your taxes are as high as they are? Don't hurt yourself thinking too hard...
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I imagine some bureaucrat's relative already got paid for the signs.
ReplyDeleteThe perimeter freeway around Atlanta had those stupid things installed. The intent was not to create BS speed traps with ever-changing speeds, but to alert folks to significantly reduced speeds ahead due to traffic or other crap, but they wouldshow 40mph when trafficwas stopped dead. Not sure how well they worked, but they are now gone. Obviously they are more about delivering profits to friends than about safety or otherwise.
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