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gigag04 wrote:

puma guy wrote: I don't know for sure but I'd bet cities get to keep the majority of fines for school zone infractions. Ka-ching!! Ka-ching!!

Wrong again.

My bad I guess. Educate us with the pertcentages. BTW what was my first wrong?

chartreuse wrote:

chabouk wrote:

puma guy wrote:This is off the main topic, but does anyone know the maximum speed reduction allowed for school zones?

I don't know, but most of the "school zones" around here are ridiculous. Not for the speed reduction, but for the fact that they exist at all.

It's one thing to have a school zone at an elementary school in a neighborhood with sidewalks and crossing guards, but it's quite another to have one on a 5 lane highway with no sidewalks, no crosswalks, and a high school that sits 1/4 mile off the road. It's flat-out ridiculous to have one at the college.

But... but... Won't somebody please think of the children?!

I'm all for protecting the kids, but some zones are obviously about the money. I don't know for sure but I'd bet cities get to keep the majority of fines for school zone infractions. Ka-ching!! Ka-ching!!

This is off the main topic, but does anyone know the maximum speed reduction allowed for school zones? I found something in TxDOT standards that you can't reduce speed by more than 15MPH. I.e. on a highway no more than 50 from 65 at a time. Where I live we have several roads that are 40 and 45 MPH and still have 20MPH school zones. I was going to ask the PD but now I see they installed speed reduction signs before the actual school zone. The yellow diamond with the B&W 20. It still reduces the permitted speed limit by more than 15 MPH. I know in a rural area I frequently drive the limit is 50 and the school zone is 35MPH.