Poor Practices

Federal Register: FHWA Changes to MUTCD No Longer Facted Based, Non-Compliant

RE: 23 CFR Parts 634 and 655
[FHWA Docket No. FHWA–2007–28977]
RIN 2125–AF22
National Standards for Traffic Control
Devices; MUTCD

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DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE MANUAL’S INTENT AND PRACTICE

These proposed change(s) are a very troubling quickening of the destruction of Congress’ intent as encompassed in the Highway Safety Act of 1966, when Congress created, and then charged the FHWA with “Roadway Safety” oversight on the nation’s highway infrastructure and traffic control thereon.

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Bad Roads and the US Department of Transportation About to Eclipse Bad Drivers as the Greatest Danger to Our Safety

PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In a time when we struggle as a nation to reign in terrorism and conduct wars in Iraq and Afghanistan maybe we should also focus on threats to our safety here, too. Apathy and kowtowing to special interests by our own USDOT is responsible for more deaths and injures each year than all our enemies combined! Despite its public campaigns that blame everything on driver behavior, an astonishing one in four (10,000 plus) of our highway fatalities now are directly attributable to its own negligence and refusal to implement Congress' safety mandates, and it's only going to get worse!


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