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Old 09-04-2007, 04:14 PM
 
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Fairfax County schools are back in session and so over the next few weeks police will be doing speed enforcement in the various school zone blinking light areas. Please be aware of these and SLOW DOWN. It's important for safety reasons to slow down all year, even when the police are not out there enforcing; but I'm posting this in the hope of preventing tiresome threads from people who get ticketed in the school zones and come here to whine and make excuses.
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Old 09-05-2007, 10:47 AM
 
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I keep hearing how there is so much traffic in the area, which causes me to wonder:
How are people able to speed?
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Old 09-05-2007, 11:49 AM
 
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It's easy to speed in residential areas, where many of the schools are located.
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Old 09-05-2007, 02:58 PM
 
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In a designated school zone, there are lights that flash during the half-hour period around the school start time and again around the dismissal time. During that period drivers are required to slow down to 25 mph in the designated zone, for the safety of buses, carpooling parents, and pedestrian students. (Some schools also have crossing guards.) So to clarify, "speeding" doesn't mean going above the regular posted speed limit, it means going over 25 mph in the marked zone around the school entrance. (I don't know if at some schools it's even lower than 25 mph; 25 is what I've always seen. But in any case the speed limit is posted.)
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