NEW OVERHEAD SCHOOL ZONE LIGHTS ACTIVATED AT CENTRAL ISD

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Motorists should remain alert on US 69 North near the Central ISD school zones beginning today with the activation of new overhead school zone lights and speed limit signs.

School zone lights will be activated near the high school and elementary campuses after the Texas Transportation Commission in August approved extending the zones. New overhead signs and flashers indicating the reconfigured school zones were set about 600-feet north at both campuses to allow for improved sight distance for southbound motorists on US 69.

Crews are also scheduled to set the approved signs indicating a speed limit change to 55 miles per hour between the two campuses. When school zone lights are not activated, the speed limit will be 55 mph. When school zone lights are activated, the speed limit will continue to be 35 mph. These changes are enforceable once signs are set.

Motorists are urged to stay alert, reduce speed and obey all traffic control in and through these school zones. The changes came from a recent engineering study and traffic investigation that justified the need to alter the speed and reconfigure the school zones.

For more information, contact Rhonda.Oaks@txdot.gov or call (936) 633-4395.

Rhonda Oaks
Rhonda Oaks is the Public Information Officer for the nine-county Lufkin District of the Texas Department of Transportation. A Lufkin native, she is a graduate of Hudson High School and Angelina College. She has a background in print journalism and worked for many years as a newspaper reporter and a freelance writer. She has received eight Associated Press awards. Her articles have been published in many publications over the past 25 years.

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