News about The PA Automated Work Zone Speed Enforcement System

[DocH]

Hope I'm not duplicating this info here in The Forum.

About – Pennsylvania Automated Work Zone Speed Enforcement

workzonecameras.penndot.gov

In 2018 there were 1,804 work zone crashes!
That's alot higher than I would have thought....
Doc

 

[Exadata]

Yes, this has been posted before but, a good reminder. Remember to go all the way to the bottom of the page in the link and click on locations.

 

[DocH]

Yes, this has been posted before but, a good reminder. Remember to go all the way to the bottom of the page in the link and click on locations.

Thanks for the reminder for Folks to go to the bottom Rt hand of the Penndot page to find the locations of the Work Zones being monitored!!
Doc

 

[gshadow325]

What tech is in these things? Can we detect or jam them?

 

[V1Jake]

What tech is in these things? Can we detect or jam them?

Low powered k band radar. MRCD/MRCT very difficult to detect and a very short range. It would be something similar to my vid below. Per the law they have to post speed cameras in use signs prior to the construction zone

Radar - V1 Gen1 vs MRCD/MRCT NYC Speed cameras fixed and mobile

Ran into a mobile speed camera unit today I decided to turn off all k band filters and do a few passes to show you how short of an alert you get. It would be too late in most cases since you are in the target zone This is gen 1 V1 - Car patch antenna 24.112 - Pole patch antenna 24.083

www.rdforum.org

 

[lugnuts]

In 2018 there were 1,804 work zone crashes!
That's alot higher than I would have thought....
Doc

you have to take that into perspective. They always like to show statistics to do just that make people think its worse then it is to get them to buy into this BS.

in reality a good amount of those crashes had nothing to do with the fact it was in a construction zone. like rush hour bumper taps etc.
how many were actually active construction zones or just a stretch of road with some cone on the shoulder.

what are the statistics for non-work zones.
whats the actual % crashes/ volume of traffic in construction zones vs. non-work zones

take anything the government and media tells you with a grain of salt there is always an agenda and in this case is getting the public to buy into another revenue scheme

 

[xesty]

I saw a road sign over the weekend that said 'MRCD SPEED DETECTION TO BEGIN MONDAY' (03/09/20).
I can't find any more info about this, I'm assuming it's the work zone cameras then. Have not seen any yet though or signs posted. Have to update my R7

 

[IamGenZod]

I saw a road sign over the weekend that said 'MRCD SPEED DETECTION TO BEGIN MONDAY' (03/09/20).
I can't find any more info about this, I'm assuming it's the work zone cameras then. Have not seen any yet though or signs posted. Have to update my R7

I seen many of these signs as well. One of them on I79 south heading into pittsburgh.