- The Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste facility in Wisconsin has a speed limit sign of 17.3 miles per hour to improve driver attention and safety.
If you pulled into the Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste facility in Wisconsin and noticed the speed limit sign, you would probably slow down, squint, and wonder if someone just never learned how rounding works. The posted limit is 17.3 miles per hour, and no, that is not a typo. It is not a glitch. Nobody forgot a decimal point somewhere it did not belong. This is completely intentional, and honestly, once you hear the reasoning, it is hard to argue with it.
The facility serves a constant flow of contractors, haulers, and everyday residents dropping off their recycling. That kind of mixed traffic, all moving through the same space at different speeds with different vehicles, creates real safety concerns. Officials needed a way to make sure drivers were paying attention, and they decided that a perfectly ordinary speed limit sign simply was not going to cut it anymore.
So they did something weird. They posted 17.3 mph. And the strange thing is, it worked exactly as intended, because here you are, reading about it…