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Nearly 1K tickets issued to drivers in construction zone blitz, state police say 1%
By Robert Barba0%
5/10/2026, 10:36:00 AM
Topics: Driving, New York State
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Framing Effect, and Recency Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 37.3% saturation with 60 hits. Analysis detected 199 faulty-reasoning hits from 161 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 6.5% and a BS Rank of 1% (21,695 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 99.10% of the article peer group.
State troopers said they issued nearly 1,000 tickets to motorists during a blitz last month intended to bring attention to road worker safety.
Between April 20 and 24, the New York State Police said it conducted 12 enforcement details at a dozen work zones across the state.
In some cases, troopers were disguised as highway workers to identify violations.
The state police said it issued 160 tickets for violations of New York’s Move Over Law, which requires drivers to slow down and move over when there is a vehicle parked on the side of the road.
This year’s tally is an 84% increase from last year’s blitz.
Speeding tickets made up the bulk of the citations, at 401.
Such tickets rose by a third from a year earlier.
According to the state police data, roughly a third of the stops were made along the New York State Thruway.
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