The Aurora Traffic Safety Project will run a large-scale safe driving enforcement patrol along Aurora Ave N on Thursday, April 14. The goal, according to the Seattle Department of Transportation is to deter aggressive and distracted driving. “Specifically the patrol will focus on the behaviors we know are contributing to collisions, injuries and deaths along Aurora such as speeding, following too close, unsafe turns, DUI, cell phone usage and other in car distractions,” SDOT states in a release.
The patrol will include more than 50 members of the Seattle Police Department, six patrol units from the Washington State Patrol and three teams from the Washington Liquor Control Board.
Furlough Day for the prostitutes
Why announce this in advance? Why not report on it after the fact and keep people in fear of the random enforcement patrol?
Tomorrow we will be enforcing the law, but just do what you usually do today and the day after tomorrow…. Seems very strange to me.
just as ironic as announcing emphasis patrol during the “holidays” for drunk drivers. but people still do it so maybe we will be dealing with the same crowd. i hope it’s a windfall!
Sounds like just another fund raising event to me. Sort of like PBS. It’s all about the money people. Wake up. This IS the nanny state. Don’t you get it. Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign. Gee, that sounds like a song.
Whoa man, you’ve got it all wrong. The government isn’t trying to control our money. The government is, like, trying to controlling our minds. That why I wear this fancy tin foil hat. Keeps THEM away.
its funny, on my morning commute today I witnessed several people run red lights, within view of the motorcycle cops, and not one got pulled over. what was the point of this extra patrol again?
The point is that Aurora/99 looks like a divided multilane highway and drivers expect to be able to travel at highway speeds. The problem is that it also has on street parking, 90 degree entrances and exits, congestion, and the occasional tweeker running across six lanes of traffic. Add all that together and you get a high rate of collisions and pedestrian fatalities. The state only has one tool in their toolbox…speed enforcement. So that’s what we get instead of redesigning and reducing the number of exits and entrances, eliminating some of the parking, installing pedestrian barriers, or any other solution that could make 99 a more efficient and safer traffic corridor.