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What is a "Speed Zone" or "Safety Corridor"?

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Originally posted by: jpeyton
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No.

Safety Corridors are often places which are accident prone due to the roads - winding or hilly and harder to see oncoming traffic or obstacles. They usually have higher collision rates for reasons like road conditions, common weather (we would get bad dust storms in CA in areas), etc.
 
"speed zone" just lets you know some small-ass town with a low speed-limit is ahead when you're driving on those rural highways so you don't blow right through.

i think a "safety corridor" is declared when there's a LOT of accidents on whatever stretch of road it appears on. i'm not sure if tickets are higher within the "safety corridor" but they probably are here in oregon.
 
A speed zone is the same thing as a safety zone. Speed zones are stretches of highway where it is okay to speed. Safety zones, while not marked as speed zones, are extra safe stretches where you'll be safe even if you speed. It's like those slow children ahead signs. The sign lets you know that the kids in the road ahead are real slow so it should be safe to zip right around them.
 
Think most of these zones have higher fines and cops watch them more. Why wouldn't they with the higher fines?
 
"Speed Zone" = increased enforcement.

"Safety Corridor" = increased risk of accident, so the enforcement goes up.
Usually, something has been done to improve the safety. IE:
You have to turn on your headlights, installing raised pavement markers or grinding the edge line or center line (bumpbumpbump when your tires roll over them).
 
Originally posted by: ObiDon
"speed zone" just lets you know some small-ass town with a low speed-limit is ahead when you're driving on those rural highways so you don't blow right through.

i think a "safety corridor" is declared when there's a LOT of accidents on whatever stretch of road it appears on. i'm not sure if tickets are higher within the "safety corridor" but they probably are here in oregon.
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I know from personal experience on 97 in Oregon the safety corridors are 2x fines for trucks.
 
In Virginia they mean more cash from tickets under the guise of public safety. Think of it as the automotive version of won't someone think of the children.
 
Just got back from taking I81 through Virginia on my trip back to Houston, TX. All the Safety Corridors that I saw were in places that had lots of turns and steep grades.
 
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
It's a money-making scheme.
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Yep, its a pyramid scheme.

One town gets other towns to sell towns on the idea of getting easy money from unsuspecting drivers. Each town gets a cut of what the town below it recieves from the tickets.
 
Originally posted by: Auggie
Just got back from taking I81 through Virginia on my trip back to Houston, TX. All the Safety Corridors that I saw were in places that had lots of turns and steep grades.
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Slightly off-opic:
Did you start in Virginia on I-81 or did you go from state line to state line? If you went through the entire state, did you enjoy the ~6 hours it took with nothing but trees and mountains for scenery?

I HATE that drive--I've made it a few times and it seems like Virginia never ends; there is very little to look at--the scenery doesn't change.

 
still off topic...

ive done the drive of new orleans to pittsburgh (to and from) via 81 and its boring once you get into VA and its even worse once you get get south of VA anf TN. man its boring.
 
In Oregon, a "safety corridor" is where speeders are blamed and fines are doubled in order to distract from the obvious fact that the state has failed to make necessary improvements to the highway, i.e. a dangerous high volume 2-lane blacktop with few passing zones still serving as an essential transportation corridor.
 
Originally posted by: Vic
In Oregon, a "safety corridor" is where speeders are blamed and fines are doubled in order to distract from the obvious fact that the state has failed to make necessary improvements to the highway, i.e. a dangerous high volume 2-lane blacktop with few passing zones still serving as an essential transportation corridor.
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Oh, so you've been on 97? 🙂 Behind a truck? No passing lane for another 20 miles? In a truck behind a Swift truck on 97? Good ole ODOT.
 
Originally posted by: compman25
Originally posted by: Vic
In Oregon, a "safety corridor" is where speeders are blamed and fines are doubled in order to distract from the obvious fact that the state has failed to make necessary improvements to the highway, i.e. a dangerous high volume 2-lane blacktop with few passing zones still serving as an essential transportation corridor.
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Oh, so you've been on 97? 🙂 Behind a truck? No passing lane for another 20 miles? In a truck behind a Swift truck on 97? Good ole ODOT.
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Heh. Actually I was thinking of 18, stuck behind some slow old man in a hat in the 20 miles with no passing lane between McMinnville and Spirit Mountain Casino. 😛
But yeah, 97 is another...
 
If you come across a 'safety corridor' or 'drug free' zone, you can be assured that it's the most unsafe or drug infested place imaginable.
 
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