Troopers dressed as road workers issue 14 tickets Thursday (7/18/20)
They may look like road workers but they could be cops (7/17/20)
So is it ok for constructions workers to dress like cops?
“OPERATION LARD ASS!”
PING!
state coffers are low.
Going from unmarked cars to unmarked troopers...
Wow! going under cover to nail drivers. Too bad Il Duce’s troopers don’t go under cover in Antifa and BLM and do some real police work.
The Village People are taking their show on the road. Will the cowboy, Indian, and soldier be out there too?
maryland state police used to set up a plastic silhouette of a police cruiser in the median of route 50 on the eastern shore...
someone stole it... š
Two agencies to crack down on work zone violations
Damned good idea to many idiots fail to slow down many Caltrans workers and in other states have been splattered over the years and it’s a slow painful death.
1/2 the people on the road shouldn’t be.
Wouldn’t that be entrapment?
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
“Operation Hard Hat is a joint initiative of the two agencies to crack down on work zone violations and highlight the importance of safe driving through active construction and maintenance zones.”
nonsense. NYS needs the money.
Our cops do this in Florida too...
They stop idiots near schools from speeding by pretending to be golfers on golf carts... and everything else imaginable. It’s a great system. The disguised group has the speed guns and around the corner cops in cop cars pull the speeders off to ticket them.
The goal is to keep the community safe. It works.
North of Lake Placid exit and South of Plattsburgh, hardly any traffic. They should up the speed limit to 75 there, not scar people with tickets.
I have no problem with state troopers enforcing construction speed limits. The law is the law.
However, they should not violate laws in the process. As an engineer who has designed and permitted a number of road projects, I would wager that the attorneys in a class action lawsuit could have a little fun with the state troopers who dressed up as construction workers and the State Patrol management.
First all highway, especially interstate construction projects are governed by the Federal Dept of Transportation regulations, which are also usually adopted by State and local jurisdictions “as laws.” You know those State troopers and their managers must obey the laws.
As I was saying, all construction projects on interstates and most major roads require a traffic control plan, per federal & state laws. That plan must be very detailed. I have written several. Not only if the traffic control plan is not followed, people can be fined, companies can be fines and OSHA can come in and raise hell for unsafe work practices.
These plans are so detailed that they spell out where warning signs must be placed, where “buffer” vehicles may be placed, when and where traffic control people with slow, stop & warning signs must be placed. They also define zones where construction employee vehicles may be parked, where construction company vehicles may operate, the kinds of high visibility PPE that construction employees must wear, etc.
It would be enlightening to find out where the police with the radar guns were located and if that location was allowed in the traffic control plan. Similarly, where the State Trooper’s pursuit cars were located and if they were within the jurisdiction of the traffic control plan. I wonder if the Troopers had proper training required by the traffic control plan, it they were wearing all required PPE, like steel toes shoes, if they participated in daily “OSHA tailgate meetings prior to the start of Construction.”
I would wager that a little investigation on the part of a few class action attorneys could be the start of a very interesting OSHA claim and a slew of charges against the construction firm, the State trooper management, the State,and individual troopers over a variety of violations of various laws.
But the law is the law and ignorance of the law is no excuse. Perhaps a fancy out of court settlement with public apology to those ticketed, along with a declaration to never do that again could result.
Just some random thoughts.