I was doing a trip on Google Street view in the Beloit area when I came across this on I-43 just east of Hwy X. There are plates in the road and cameras on both sides. Is this a speed camera set up? I never noticed this before. The image is from August of 2018.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5465596,-88.9378207,3a,75y,59.94h,76.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sM440db7VqBRgsLXNP2Bv5w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1
I haven't heard anything about Wisconsin adding speed cameras. Maybe they're traffic counters related to the nearby construction on I-90?
Quote from: hobsini2 on April 15, 2020, 01:23:19 PM
I was doing a trip on Google Street view in the Beloit area when I came across this on I-43 just east of Hwy X. There are plates in the road and cameras on both sides. Is this a speed camera set up? I never noticed this before. The image is from August of 2018.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5465596,-88.9378207,3a,75y,59.94h,76.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sM440db7VqBRgsLXNP2Bv5w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1
No. These are for traffic counts and conditions. Speed cameras and red light cameras are illegal in Wisconsin.
Those are scales that are used for automated big-rig truck weight limit enforcement.
WisDOT installed a set of them on both sides of US (now 'I-') 41 on the Oshkosh Causeway when it was seriously upgraded in the early 2010s, too.
https://goo.gl/maps/hjNUDurLqLkESizPA
Mike