DOT makes no bones about effects of speeding with skeleton speed boards
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has chosen a high-trafficintersection along Fourth Avenue as one of the first sites for theinstallation of new skeleton speed boards designed to callattention to the dangers of speeding.
Located on the southbound side of Fourth Avenue, between 38thand 39th Streets in Sunset Park, the new signs will flash an imageof a person walking, next to the words Speed Limit 30, remindingdrivers of the city’s 30 miles per hour speed limit. However, whena car exceeds the 30 mph limit, the sign will recognize it andflash an image of a neon skeleton next to the capitalized words,Slow Down.
According to DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, the speedboards were designed to remind motorists that speeding is a menacethat endangers everyone on our streets, and to deliver theequally chilling message that speeding kills, and slowing down cansave lives.