What's the point? Why one area in Wisconsin has a very specific speed limit

It’s not a typo.

One Wisconsin region has acceptable 1 area's velocity bounds to 17.3 mph successful an eye-catching determination aimed astatine jolting drivers into staying alert successful a high-traffic enactment zone.

Officials successful Outagamie County rolled retired the antithetic velocity bounds astatine the county’s Recycling and Solid Waste facility, wherever a changeless travel of trucks, contractors and residents creates a engaged and sometimes hazardous environment.

County leaders accidental the oddly circumstantial fig is intentional — and psychological.

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Drivers successful Outagamie County, Wisconsin, are looking doubly aft the county’s Recycling & Solid Waste installation rolled retired an antithetic 17.3 mph velocity bounds motion successful the area. (Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste)

"Why 17.3? Because it makes you pause. It makes you look twice," officials said successful a societal media station announcing the change. The goal, they say, is to drawback drivers retired of "autopilot" and unit them to wage person attraction to velocity and information portion down the wheel.

The tract sees dependable postulation from ample hauling vehicles and smaller rider cars, often moving successful choky quarters.

A roadway leads into Retzer Nature Center successful Waukesha, Wis. (iStock)

The region believes the unconventional velocity bounds is simply a tiny alteration that volition get drivers to dilatory down, enactment alert and ticker retired for others.

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Whether it catches connected elsewhere remains to beryllium seen, but for now, 17.3 mph is turning heads successful Wisconsin.

"Worked past play erstwhile I was there. Made america laugh," 1 idiosyncratic replied to the post.

A agrarian roadworthy successful Wisconsin is lined with scrub oaks and powerlines, with maize and workplace fields disposable to the near successful aboriginal fall. (iStock)

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Other users, however, were skeptical of the move.

"Sounds similar thing outagamie would do," different idiosyncratic wrote. "Plus you’ll get speeding for 17.4 and impeding postulation astatine 17.2, everyone gonna beryllium paying up."