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The objective is to make more drivers observe the speed limit when passing just feet or inches from vulnerable workers. Washington’s transportation department wants the state Legislature to allow speed enforcement ticket cameras in highway work zones. Oregon lawmakers are coming up with yet other approaches. The traffic safety proposals the lawmakers described would tackle the problem from a number of angles. A phalanx of highway construction laborers dressed in safety orange provided a living backdrop behind the parade of speakers. Jay Inslee, the state Senate and House transportation committee chairs, a bevy of other Republican and Democratic state lawmakers, traffic safety advocates and a crash victim's grieving family to promote the package of new legislation. We are going to do something."Īt a packed press conference, Lovick joined Gov. "If there was any other industry where we lost that many people we would do something. "I personally think our roads are the most unsafe roads we have ever had - to lose 745 people!" Lovick, a former state trooper and county sheriff, said at the state Capitol Thursday. John Lovick said, before referencing the high number of traffic fatalities recorded statewide in 2022. "A lot of people do not feel safe driving on our roads right now," Washington state Sen. Some of these ideas have corollaries in Oregon, where the legislative machinery is getting revved up too. Those include authorizing photo radar in highway work zones, prohibiting right turns at many red lights, and lowering the breathalyzer limit to convict for drunk driving. State lawmakers in Olympia are debating a suite of possible new responses. That correlates with a rise in traffic fatalities that last year reached levels not seen since the 1990s in Washington state and Oregon. If you have spent any time behind the wheel since the pandemic began, you've surely noticed people driving more aggressively and way too fast.
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