Speeding Drivers Force CHP Call During Redway Drive Water Repair
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General Manager Cody Cox said the work, located near the church on Redway Drive, involves a service lateral leak off the main line. No water shutoffs have been necessary.
However, Cox said drivers have been speeding through the cone zone and behaving aggressively toward workers, prompting a report to CHP. Fines for speeding in an active work zone are doubled under California law. The district considers worker safety the top priority.
Drivers are asked to slow down, follow flagger instructions, or take an alternate route while repairs are underway.
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While implementing shaded fuel breaks on county roads over multiple years – by far the biggest headache was traffic safety. One time we were visited by a CHP during lunch break. She said they got complaints that we were stopping traffic! I raised my hand and said, “Guilty as charged!” She noted that we had permits, signs, flaggers with reflective vests, and radios. “Keep up the good work!” was the final assessment.
Interesting. When filming a movie in California, we are taught that the crew are not allowed to stop traffic. And we had access to all the vests and wardrobe needed to look appropriate. We all wear radios. Yet we were required to hire cops. But maybe your guy got trained or whatever. Right?
I don’t know – maybe the regulations are/were different for film crews, than for the work we were doing (wildfire fuel reduction). We had the full support of the county road crew. Maybe it might have had something to do with the fact(?) you were not felling trees into the roadway? And therefore not a safety hazard? We certainly were, and it was a serious safety issue. I don’t know what qualifies or doesn’t as a reasonable request to control traffic on a public roadway, but we certainly qualified. Once again, my point is that many of the local drivers paid no heed to the safety issue. We had folks regularly speed through the work zone, endangering themselves and our crew, and some that actually ran the stop signs. I’ve got lots of hair raising tales to relate, if you’re willing to buy me a beer.