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Enhancing Public Safety: Law Enforcement Training Exercises

Enhancing Public Safety: How Flex-Safe USA's Innovative Signage Solution Transforms Law Enforcement Training Exercises Community safety remains a paramount priority in an age marked by heightened security concerns. Recent developments in law enforcement training have...

Types of Barricades

What is a traffic barricade? A traffic barricade is a portable or fixed device having from one to three rails with appropriate markings and is used to control road users by closing, restricting, or delineating all or a portion of the right-of-way. What is a Type 1...

What is a barricade?

What is a Barricade?   What is the origin of the word "barricade"?  From French, going back to Middle French, from barrique "barrel," a typical component of barricades. It originally meant "a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in the street, to stop an enemy."...

Channelizing Devices

What are channelizing devices? The Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) defines channelizers as “devices that are used to temporarily guide traffic on public roads”.  The function of channelizing devices is to warn road users of conditions created by...

Temporary Traffic Control

What is meant by temporary traffic control? Temporary Traffic Control or TTC  is the use of temporary traffic control devices, flaggers, police officers, and other safety devices and features to guide traffic through an area of a highway where road user conditions are...