Yeah I know these are used for counting vehicles but can they also be used for detecting vehicle speed?

Description: two pneumatic hoses, affixed to a road. They lead to a box that’s locked to a telephone pole. Location is southern California. On a minor artery road.

Doubtful that it’s to survey if a new stop sign is needed since the next street is minor, dead ends into this one and already has a stop sign. The next intersection with another minor artery already has a stop sign.

Extremely doubtful that a traffic light is being considered since there isn’t anywhere near the amount of traffic to justify one.

This is located on a slope. Many cars speed down here. That’s why I’m wondering about speed sensing by this device.

  • @ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world
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    107 months ago

    Looking at the road, it might be to make a call on which road to repair/patch in the near future based on usage if the budget doesn’t allow repairing all (it never does).

    Once water gets into the cracks, things deteriorate a lot faster as the ground will push and pull asphalt around as it gets wet and dries up…