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SLOW ZONE: A ‘cone zone’ was set up on Lougheed Highway at Delta Avenue in Burnaby on Monday to warn drivers to take it slow in construction zones.
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Drivers urged to take care in the Cone Zone Cornelia Naylor
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The Cone Zone campaign to get drivers to slow down and pay attention when driving past roadside workers is entering its 11th year this summer – but things aren’t getting
any better, according to Sgt. Patrick Davies. “Unfortunately, I’d have to say they’re probably getting worse,” said Davies, “and they’re getting worse in the sense that we’ve got so much traffic and everything is so busy and everyone’s in such a
hurry, and many people see driving as a secondary thing in the sense that, ‘I can multi-task; I can steer with my knee while I put makeup on or answer that text.’” But that attitude is dangerous – and sometimes deadly – for flag-
gers, road construction crews, tow-truck drivers, first responders and others whose work brings them to the side of the road, according to Davies. Davies and other members of the Integrated Road Safety Unit joined officials fromWorkSafeBC
and members of theWork Zone Safety Alliance in Burnaby Monday. Officers conducted a traffic-enforcement blitz in the eastbound lanes of Lougheed Highway by Delta Avenue between 9 and 11 a.m., issuing a total of 20 tickets for speed-
ing and using an electronic device. Karesse Desmond, a former flagger now with K2K Consulting, agreed drivers seem to have become increasingly “comfortable” with driving distracted. Continued on page 4