Huge Pet Peeve: Construction Speed Signs Construction is Complete

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Does your state's statutes require workers to be present?

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Does it?

Agreed. If they want people to take them seriously, and we should, don't leave the 45 signs up for weeks after the work is done.

Folks will eventually start ignoring them. Boy who cried wolf situation.

The other thing that gets me is when someone's holding up a "slow" sign, then wave you through frantically as if you're the one holding up traffic

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Are you 100% certain that the project is actually complete?

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That's a dumb question to ask of an OT poster.

I got a ticket in one such speed zone in LA one time. When I bitched about it still being a reduced speed construction zone a month or so after the road was complete the cop told me the law required it to stay like that for x number of weeks after completion of the road. Don't know if that is true in your case, or true at all, but that is what the pig told me.

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As with most all comments from the general public concerning highway construction, you have no clue what you are talking about. TxDOT decides when the signs get pulled. If TxDOT has not directed them to be pulled, it means the project has not been accepted and there is quite likely work remaining.

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2 months after the fact all I can see that remains from the construction is less than a dozen orange cones with no rhyme or reason toppled over in the median and no workers found for months. This is a great revenue boosting speed trap is why they have it up.

I will give you a small example of work that might be remaining. TxDOT will not accept a project until vegetation is established well enough to control erosion. There may be a truck watering the grass a few hours a day you never see. Those signs must be up with any worker present for any length of time. If not, some frickstick speeding through the project will have a wreck and sue the shite out of everybody.

The entity responsible for the signs and the entity "generating" revenue are not the same. It only generates revenue if you do not obey.

As with most all comments from the general public concerning highway construction, you have no clue what you are talking about.

Call the TxDOT area office in Belton, ask them why the signs have not been pulled, and complain if you would like. At least you will be properly informed at that point.

It's in punchlist phase. Which can take months. Which is why the signs are still there. Which is why do what the signs say until they are taken down.