Sentences with phrase «roadwork sites»
QUT researcher Dr Ross Blackman speed limit credibility is put at risk when reduced limits are in place at inactive roadwork sites.
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«Don't cry wolf: Drivers fed up with slowing down at inactive roadwork sites.»
Dr Blackman said despite reduced speed limits, crash rates and crash severity around roadwork sites were high because drivers failed to slow sufficiently and were often not paying attention.
«Roadwork sites have high crash rates and there have been numerous fatalities at roadwork sites in Queensland involving workers and public road users,» he said.
Dr Blackman's survey involved more than 400 people who were asked to estimate their speed for a range of different roadwork site scenarios, some of which were inactive sites and others with road workers visible.
«There was about a 20 per cent reduction in speed between an inactive roadwork site (53km / h) compared to an active site with workers visible (42km / h).»
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Finally, the context of London as a site for political and cultural action emerges across the galleries, whether through documentation of Mona Hatoum's performance Roadworks in the streets of Brixton following the 1985 uprisings, or Black Audio Film Collective's video essay Twilight City which explores the effects on London of Thatcher's urban regeneration programme.