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Do Radar Speed Signs Actually Work? A Look at the Data
Speeding is one of the most common, and frustrating, complaints in HOA communities and neighborhood roads. Residents worry about children, pets, walkers, and cyclists, while communities look for solutions that improve safety without creating conflict or increasing...
Understanding the Differences Between U-Channel, Square, and Round Sign Posts
When it comes to installing road signs, parking signs, or informational signage, the choice of post is crucial to ensure durability, visibility, and compliance with MUTCD and/or local standards. The three most common types of sign posts used in traffic and commercial...
Boost Traffic Safety with Flashing Stop Signs
Traffic safety is a priority for every community. Among the many tools available to improve road safety, flashing stop signs have emerged as an innovative and effective solution. These high-visibility signs serve as an enhanced alternative to traditional stop signs,...
Enhancing Pedestrian Safety with Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons – RRFB
Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons – RRFB – can increase motorist yielding rates up to 98%.
Enhancing Pedestrian Safety at Unsignalized Crosswalks
Unsignalized crosswalks are pedestrian crossings with no traffic signals. They play a vital role in pedestrian safety and promoting walkability by providing designated areas for pedestrians to cross roadways safely. While signalized crosswalks with traffic lights are...
Temporary Traffic Control Devices
The sort of traveling carnival that sets up in the parking lot of shopping mall is a great example of a scenario that warrants temporary traffic control: devices used to warn motorists, and pedestrians, of potential hazards and guide them safely. The carnival crew has...
Warning Signs Used at Passive Railroad Crossings
Despite the name, "passive railroad crossings" are not crossings where the train slows so conductors can tip their hats. Passive railroad crossings are locations that do not have warning signs with flashing lights or devices that activate as a train approaches, like...
MUTCD Regulations on traffic control barricades, cones and drums
“Orange cones ahead. Looks like I’m going to have to change lanes.” That sums up the extent of the interaction between a motorist and a traffic cone. As it should be, as long as they’re obeying. It’s the work crews implementing those safety measures that need to...
How to Improve Nighttime Pedestrian Safety
Nighttime has the potential to be dangerous for anybody on the road, but it's particularly dangerous for pedestrians. The NHTSA also estimates that 76% of pedestrian traffic deaths in 2020 occurred during dark lighting conditions.A vast majority of pedestrian...
Are “Children at Play” Signs Recommended?
Traffic signs help us fend off anarchy on the roads. Signs inform motorists what street they're on, when to stop, which direction to go, which direction not to go...traffic signs make our communities more livable and roads safer for both motorists and pedestrians....
Differences in Reflective Sheeting
Reflective Sheeting makes traffic signs more visible with a thin flexible retroreflective material that increases both daytime visibility and nighttime brightness of signs. Just as all of our traffic signs are fabricated in accordance with MUTCD and DOT standards, or...
10 Items That Improve Neighborhood Traffic and Pedestrian Safety
If you're a HOA, or community, leader, you spend a lot of time on quality of life for your residences, through community upkeep, planning, and maintenance. Do not forget traffic and pedestrian safety - in 2019, there were 6,205 pedestrians killed in traffic-related...
Stop Sign MUTCD Regulations
Edited: August 2, 2022 MUTCD stands for “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices,” and this manual has specific regulations for Stop Sign sizes and placement that must be followed. Stop Signs (MUTCD Code R1-1) are octagon-shaped, red regulatory signs that are used...