The 11th MUTCD is Exactly What We Should Expect...

...except for the damn 85th percentile speed trap.

tl;dr: We can’t be wrong and have no accountability for it. The new MUTCD helps to bring up-to-date the mismatch between policy and need, but I’m not yet seeing a process for accountability in writing or in spirit. 

I awoke this chilly December 19, 2023, to find a

Notice that the MUTCD

had been updated and released to the public and now we know how to mark our roads

and I took the one less traveled

more slowly than 85% of my colleagues

and it made no difference at all

—Robert “Moses” Frost