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Committee advances AB 289 to allow automated speed enforcement in active highway construction zones
Summary
AB 289 would authorize automated speed-enforcement systems in active highway construction zones to reduce crashes and protect workers; the Transportation Committee passed the bill after broad labor and contractor support and some law-enforcement and civil-liberty concerns were raised.
AB 289, a bill to permit automated speed-enforcement systems in active highway construction zones, was advanced by the California State Assembly Transportation Committee.
Assemblymember Haney, the bill's author, told the committee that vehicle intrusions into highway construction zones have killed and seriously injured workers and cited data he said shows five work fatalities and 19 serious injuries in the last three years related to vehicles entering work zones. He said other…
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