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Committee approves doubling fines in mobile work zones to protect RDOT crews
Summary
A bill to extend doubled fines to mobile maintenance work zones — placing signage on mobile vehicles and increasing penalties for violations — passed the committee after RDOT testimony about recent fatalities involving maintenance workers.
Senator Kim Hammer sponsored a measure to extend the same doubled-fine protections that exist for static construction work zones to mobile maintenance work zones, where RDOT maintenance crews carry out tasks such as pothole patching, debris removal and other moving operations. Jared Wiley, director of RDOT, described the bill and highlighted recent fatal incidents to underscore the…
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