Wouldn a “SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY” sign help to provide safer streets?
The “SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY” type signs were removed entirely from both the Federal and State versions of the Manual a number of years ago. The reason was that the signs were deemed vague and confusing to motorists in their message, and studies performed indicated no measurable change in driver behavior in the vicinity of the signs. The intention of yellow and black warning signs is to call attention to a condition which would be unexpected to an average driver, e.g. sharp curve, railroad crossing, school crossing, stop ahead, trail crossing, etc. While the presence of children in a street certainly can constitute a potentially hazardous condition, it is intuitive to most drivers that roads through predominately residential communities such as Le Sueur will have some number of children adjacent. There is no known or agreed upon criterion for when a certain density of children in a residential area exceeds what an average driver expects. “SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY” signs within the city were
The “SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY” type signs were removed entirely from both the Federal and State versions of the Manual a number of years ago. The reason was that the signs were deemed vague and confusing to motorists in their message, and studies performed indicated no measurable change in driver behavior in the vicinity of the signs. The intention of yellow and black warning signs is to call attention to a condition which would be unexpected to an average driver, e.g. sharp curve, railroad crossing, school crossing, stop ahead, trail crossing, etc. While the presence of children in a street certainly can constitute a potentially hazardous condition, it is intuitive to most drivers that roads through predominately residential communities such as Lino Lakes will have some number of children adjacent. There is no known or agreed upon criterion for when a certain density of children in a residential area exceeds what an average driver expects.
