Originally posted by Pete D:
Don't you understand man?! Those cones and orange signs are doing all the work!!
I don't agree with the work zone being enforced 24/7 but I don't have any say in the law.
-Pete
I read an interesting article in the news clips at work a while back (unfortunately I don't remember the source). But the gist was that, in work zones, people in vehicles were something like 100 times more likely to be killed than highway workers. So the "work zone" speed limits were not really to protect the workers (who are usually behind Jersey walls in any event) but to protect us'ins, who tend to whomp into each other if we have to do something complicated like a lane shift, or to drive between two Jersey walls. So that would explain the 24/7 enforcement of work zone speed limits--it's to protect you.
