A brand new site visitors mild in a faculty zone in Brossard, Quebec, Canada, stays pink by default, and can solely flip inexperienced when a automotive approaching it has been touring beneath the pace restrict of 30 km/hr.
Article at StreetsBlog Mass, right here.
It is referred to as the “feu de ralentissement éducatif” (academic traffic-calming mild), or FRED
“Fines is likely to be efficient, but it surely’s efficient after-the-fact,” says [Brossard’s mayor, Doreen] Assaad. “The great thing about FRED is we reward good conduct, and it is rapid. It does not report any non-public info, it simply detects that the car is coming and measures its pace. So it is a carrot as an alternative of a stick.”
I did not discover any info on how lengthy it takes for the sunshine to show from pink to inexperienced for speeders. If in any respect.
