SAN BERNARDINO, CA. (Pain In The Pass) >> New wrong-way lights and signs are being installed on various offramps starting soon. You will start seeing blinking red lights in the near future.
Caltrans and the UC Davis Advanced Highway Maintenance and Construction Technology (AHMCT) Research Center today released two reports highlighting ways to prevent rare but often deadly collisions involving wrong way drivers. One of the prevention measures included in the three-year pilot program—reflectors that alert drivers they are entering the roadway in the wrong direction—was so successful at deterring wrong way drivers that Caltrans has already installed the reflective markers on hundreds of miles of highways.
In San Diego, the number of wrong way drivers decreased by 44% after the reflectors were installed…