New style speed cameras
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For anyone interested, there is a Facebook group "Nightmare on 210" with thousands of followers, who rant daily about the craziness they see while driving on Indian Head highway, in which 91 fatalities have occurred since 2007. https://www.facebook.com/groups/620324144682565
glhs837
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I wonder if the cameras have changed anything..
this is from 2019 ... traffic is bound to be higher now
New speed cameras are being installed along Indian Head Highway
New speed cameras are being installed along Indian Head Highway. Prince George’s County police have identified six primary zones where the cameras will operate on a rotating basis starting June 1. The new law will permit three cameras along the 13-mile stretch of the road, from the Beltway to...
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this will only worsen the rush hour speed up and slow down affect .......
by volume of traffic 210 is not that deadly 50,000 cars a day travel up and down 210
yes there have been some spectacular wrecks ... a couple of yrs back there were 3 fatal accidents with in a couple of months
2 head on collisions were because a driver was going the wrong way @ 3 am ... and nothing to do with rush hour commuters driving 65 - 70 mph
50 fatal crashes out of 130,500,000 cars traveled up and down 210 in 10 yrs
50k per day * 2610 work days so this does not account for weekends
My mistake its more like 80k at this point
https://governor.maryland.gov/2016/...unces-construction-of-new-md-210-interchange/
Traffic on MD 210 is expected to increase from 82,700 vehicles per day to 126,350 by 2035.
like people complaining Big OIL makes so much money ...
the profit on a Gal of gas is about a nickle ... the volume of gasoline consumed every day when I checked a few yrs ago 435 million gallons PER DAY
looking ... current stats
9.11 million barrels of gasoline per day
382,620,000 gal of gas per day
1bbl = 42 gallons [ I thought a bbl was 55 Gal but EIA charts say 1 bbl = 42
U.S. monthly gasoline consumption 2024 | Statista
As of March 2024, the U.S. consumed upward of eight million barrels of gasoline every day. Consumption was highest in summer 2023.
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Caterpillar effect, 65 mpg until you get close to a camera, then people slam on the brakes and slow to 50 or less, then speed up again
Kinnakeet
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they do for 5 seconds or less
Kinnakeet
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To bad they dont know you can go by at 60 MPH for sure,but if could ask one of them they will prolly say how do I know how fast Iam going