Road Safety Reminder for the Week
Blind Spots
Every vehicle has blind spots. These are areas around the vehicle that a driver cannot see when looking straight ahead or using the mirrors. For most vehicles, the blind spots are at the sides, slightly behind the driver.
To check your blind spots, look over your right and left shoulders out of your side windows. Only turn your head when you look. Do not turn your whole body or steering wheel. Check your blind spots before you:
- Change lanes
- Turn at an intersection
- Merge with traffic
- Back up
- Leave a parking space
- Parallel park
- Pull out from the curb
- Open your car door
According to Guam’s Traffic Violation Bureau’s (TVB) Traffic Fine Schedule
GCA (Guam Code Annotated) Code | Description | Eff. 01/01/14 |
---|---|---|
3323 | Unsafe Starting or Backing | $80.00 |
3325 | Failure to Yield at Intersection | $100.00 |
3339G | Failure to Yield Right-of-Way | $80.00 |
Guam Construction Update
Motorists are advised to drive cautiously through the construction zones, observe all posted speed limit and construction signs, and carefully heed flaggers (when present). Alternate routes and/or adjusting drive times when feasible are encouraged.
Construction activities will continue along Route 5 from Route 2A to Route 17 with intermittent lane closures. Motorists are advised to slow down while driving through this area.
There is a full road closure between Congressman Palting Loop and Pale San Vitores Road for the construction of a new retaining wall and widening of Ypao Road. Motorists will have to take alternate routes. The public is advised not to enter the construction area.
From Monday, 3/18/24 to Saturday, 3/23/24 between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM, motorists are advised that there will be lane shifts and intermittent lane closures along the northbound and southbound lanes of Route 14 (Chalan San Antonio) from Route 1 to the Archbishop Felixberto Flores Circle and to the Hilton Hotel on Pale San Vitores Road.
On Monday, 3/18/24 between 7:00 AM and 4:00 PM, the DPW contractor will be milling and paving Bibic Street in Barrigada. The DPW asks residents to please proceed with caution and remain alert for traffic control signs and work crews.
The DPW contractor will continue striping Route 10 in Mangilao during the week. Work will occur between 7:00 AM and 4:00 PM. There will be intermittent lane closures.
The DPW HMC crew will be grass cutting along Route 1 in the Polaris area during the week. Work will occur between 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM. The DPW asks motorists to please proceed with caution and remain alert for traffic control signs and work crews.
The DPW contractor will be grass cutting at the following locations during the week between 7:30 AM and 5:00 PM:
- Monday, 3/18/24 – Wednesday, 3/20/24: Route 3, NCS Dededo
- Thursday, 3/21/24 – Friday, 3/22/24: Route 16, Harmon/Barrigada and Route 8, Barrigada/MTM
- Friday, 3/22/24: Route 10, Barrigada/Mangilao