Additional low-cost safety improvements

Recent Iowa DOT-sponsored workshops—Incorporating Safety into Rehabilitation, Restoration, and Resurfacing (3R) Roadway Projects—offered county engineers advice about low-cost safety improvements.

Some improvements discussed at the workshops included the following:

adding rumble strips in advance of stop signs and along pavement edges in problem locations
updating guard rail to current standards
removing trees and utility poles from clear zones
using bigger and brighter chevrons for curves (see related story in the Sep-Oct 2004 issue of Technology News)
flattening fore slopes and driveway slopes
adding advance warning signs l

For more information

For general information about low-cost safety improvements, contact Tom McDonald, LTAP safety circuit rider, 515-294-6384, tmcdonal@iastate.edu.

For information about the Mendocino County (California) traffic safety review program, contact Stephen Ford, 707-463-4363, fords@co.mendocino.ca.us.

For information about crash analysis tools, visit www.dot.state.ia.us/crashanalysis/.

For more information about the Iowa DOT District 4 pavement markings project, contact James Bane, 712-243-3355, james.bane@dot.iowa.gov.