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Yeah my policy now is to go 20 if I see a sign regardless of whether it’s flashing. In my home state the places that use these demand that you incriminate someone else as a condition of eliminating the fine which looks illegal on its face because the state law governing their use only requires a statement that you weren’t driving.

Australia makes it clear, signs have the times on. Yes you need a watch to check but if in doubt just go slow.

Norway makes it easy. There's no time modification on the speed signs. It's slow all day err day near schools.

In a world where it is reasonable to have the road always be a slower speed for pedestrian, especially school, traffic this is by far the best option, imo.

Kind of. They have times + "SCHOOL DAYS" - When are school days you may ask? Well, it's any day the school is in session (excluding holidays) and not every adult will know when school is in session or not.

Many will also have flashing lights on them. However, the flashing lights do not override the time nor "SCHOOL DAYS".

If the lights are flashing out-of-hours you can disregard the sign, but if the lights are NOT flashing and it IS the time+day then you need to respect the sign.

ie. The flashing lights are irrelevant, and are only to catch attention.

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