|
Strategies for Enforcement
KC Scout is coordinating with law enforcement agencies to
create the strategy for I-435. Strategies across the country
involve:
- Requiring the penalty for violating a meter to be the
same as that for violating a red light at a signalized
intersection.
- Monitoring meters and reporting high violation areas
to the appropriate agencies.
- Installing "tattle-tale" indicators on the back of the
signal heads to support enforcement downstream.
- Identifying an enforcement area with each ramp
meter to provide a safe observation point from which
officers can monitor the meters and issue citations
without impacting ramp traffic.
- Coordinating an enforcement schedule.
Discrete Monitoring
Ramp meters work and look similar to traffic signals and
drivers must consider and obey them. Tattle-tale indicators allow
law enforcement officials the ability to discretely monitor the
meters. The indicator shines a white light when the ramp
meter signal is red. The light stops shining when the signal
changes to green.
Each indicator is equipped with a sun visor and can project
light in any environment. In normal conditions an indicator
can be viewed from up to 300 feet away. Monitoring law
enforcement officials can view the indicator’s light from
the rear view mirrors of their cars as they are parked in
enforcement areas.
|