{"id":5947,"date":"2025-08-09T04:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/overtaking-the-odds-do-passing-zones-make-rural-roads-safer\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T04:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:02:31","slug":"overtaking-the-odds-do-passing-zones-make-rural-roads-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/overtaking-the-odds-do-passing-zones-make-rural-roads-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"Overtaking the odds: Do passing zones make rural roads safer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Overtaking the odds: Do passing zones make rural roads safer?<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The frustration of getting stuck behind a slow vehicle on a remote road is all too familiar to drivers in Pennsylvania, where rural roads make up about 60% of highways. One of the roadway features that addresses this issue are passing zones\u2014dotted sections of two-lane roadways that allow for vehicles to cross into the opposing lane of traffic to pass other vehicles\u2014but are they safe?<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-08-odds-zones-rural-roads-safer.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overtaking the odds: Do passing zones make rural roads safer? The frustration of getting stuck behind a slow vehicle on a remote road is all too familiar to drivers in Pennsylvania, where rural roads make up about 60% of highways. One of the roadway features that addresses this issue are passing zones\u2014dotted sections of two-lane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-5947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}