Watch your speed on 495.
MassDOT and the Massachusetts State Police announced the establishment of a new Highway Safety Corridor Program for I-495 through the towns of Chelmsford, Westford, Littleton, Boxborough, Bolton, and Berlin.
The program posts public safety signs that read “Highway Safety Corridor/Laws Strictly Enforced” at eight locations throughout the corridor. The signs are outfitted with radar to calculate the average speeds of travelers during certain time periods. The signs do not calculate the speed of individual travelers.
Data collected by the signs is then used to deploy additional State Police patrols to enforce speed limits, reduce aggressive driving, and prevent distracted driving.
Interstate 495 was selected for the program because of the history of bad crashes and known high speeds.
“As both the winter season and the holidays approach, we want drivers to be especially mindful of the dangers posed by speeding,” said Frank DePaola, MassDOT’s Acting Secretary and CEO. “Establishing this stretch of I-495 as a Highway Safety Corridor allows us to sharpen our focus on an area well-known for excessive speeds and to enforce the laws to make this corridor safer.”
UPTON DAILY 