When a sensible regulation comes out of California, I’m shocked. When it comes from CalTrans, I’m positively floored.
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When it comes from CalTrans, I’m positively floored.
Rest assured that this is likely to remain a very infrequent event.
That is not just a California rule. That is set out in the Manual Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). Florida follows the same rules. A road I just Designed south of Ocala, CR 484, was just completed. We did not post Speed Limit signs. A speed study is being conducted now that will set the speed, just as you linked to the article. Then the speed limit is posted that is how it done. I should know I am a highway engineer.
This happens all the time.
California has some of the best anti-speed trap laws in the country. It’s laws regulating the use of traffic photo enforcement are tops too; the abuses Glenn Reynolds bellyaches about in Tennessee are pretty much illegal here.