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Jul 14, 2009 10:57 am US/Central
New Tollway Safety Steps Taken After CBS 11 Report
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
Hours after a CBS 11 News investigation revealed faded, broken and missing warning signs on the Dallas North Tollway, the agency has begun installing new road signs and warning reflectors to deter wrong way drivers.
The CBS 11 report revealed only one exit on the entire Dallas North Tollway was equipped with reflectors to warn wrong way drivers who try to enter an exit ramp. Today, the NTTA began installing road reflectors at eight exit ramp locations. Those include:
- Southbound Mockingbird Lane
- Southbound Royal Lane
- Southbound Northwest Highway
- Northbound Spring Creek Parkway
- Southbound Parker Road
- Northbound Beltline
- North end of the DNT at Highway 380
The NTTA states these road reflectors were already in stock and it will be ordering more road reflectors to be installed on all 47 exit ramps over the next few weeks. Additionally, maintenance crews have added 25 wrong way, do not enter and one way signs and is still considering a move to lower signs by several feet.
The agency is also considering other countermeasures to help prevent wrong way accidents, including solar powered wrong way and do not enter signs that would illuminate at night and adding reflective treatments to existing signs.
Executive Director, Alan Clemson, has asked for a report from the task force created to study the issue of wrong way crashes on the Dallas North Tollway. There have been eight crashes in the last year. Clemson wants the report completed in time to present to the full NTTA board of directors at the August or September board meeting, according to spokesperson, Sherita Coffelt.
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