Speed bumps
- Thread starter Spearhead04
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Yes, I like the idea of people not hauling ass down a residential street. Especially if you have children and sloped driveways or no sidewalks.
Posted from Rivals Mobile
Posted from Rivals Mobile
Even though I don't fly through neighborhoods the speed bumps used to annoy me. nowadays I am more of a proponent. the only thing that would bother me for our street is when I pull out with the 30 foot RV behind my truck makes for a frustrating but ok thing I guess. we had a guy fly down our 35 mile in hour doing about 80 the other day and wiped out at the dead end of our street into a main highway intersection.
I am definitely for them on our street now, it is a very long straight away and people fly down and all the time. We do not have kids but there are a lot in that neighborhood along with people walking and pets etc
Posted from Rivals Mobile
I am definitely for them on our street now, it is a very long straight away and people fly down and all the time. We do not have kids but there are a lot in that neighborhood along with people walking and pets etc
Posted from Rivals Mobile
You're probably referring to speed humps or speed tables, which are subtler versions. Speed bumps are too drastic - they cause people to speed in between them and make loud noises when they get hit.
There are much more attractive and effective ways to slow traffic on neighborhood streets - islands, bump-outs, circles, chicanes, etc.
There are much more attractive and effective ways to slow traffic on neighborhood streets - islands, bump-outs, circles, chicanes, etc.
Before kids, prob would have been more annoyed by them. Now, not as much.
We have 6 on our street (3 each direction away from our house) . Our street is a mile long and straight, so it makes sense as to why they are there. On the street next to us, they took off the speed humps to repave and never put them back. People dive like lunatics on that road now. Never though I'd be ok with them, but I see a lot of kids in the morning walking to their bus stops, so the extra speed deterrent is nice.
It isn't fool proof though. Last week got passed by a lady while going over speed hump, apparently she couldn't take the slowing down. I was taking my kids to daycare and it was 7:30am. There were kids walking to the bus stop to the right of me so lucky for them she passed when no kids were to the left. She then promptly got stuck behind a line of cars once she got to the main road. So sucker!
We have 6 on our street (3 each direction away from our house) . Our street is a mile long and straight, so it makes sense as to why they are there. On the street next to us, they took off the speed humps to repave and never put them back. People dive like lunatics on that road now. Never though I'd be ok with them, but I see a lot of kids in the morning walking to their bus stops, so the extra speed deterrent is nice.
It isn't fool proof though. Last week got passed by a lady while going over speed hump, apparently she couldn't take the slowing down. I was taking my kids to daycare and it was 7:30am. There were kids walking to the bus stop to the right of me so lucky for them she passed when no kids were to the left. She then promptly got stuck behind a line of cars once she got to the main road. So sucker!
I have kids and find speeding cars annoying but also find that throwing a basketball in the street in front of the speeding cars a few times does the trick.
It would take a lot to get me to move into a neighborhood with speed bumps. They suck for motorcycles and suck for low slung vehicles. I find it far more annoying to get stuck behind a low car that has to creep over them or be the car that has to creep over them. All of my vehicles at this time are low enough to cause issue.
It would take a lot to get me to move into a neighborhood with speed bumps. They suck for motorcycles and suck for low slung vehicles. I find it far more annoying to get stuck behind a low car that has to creep over them or be the car that has to creep over them. All of my vehicles at this time are low enough to cause issue.
Our neighborhood in St Johns County did a traffic study and considered that as an option to deter speeders on the main road. They sent out a ballot initiative on it and it got shot down in a big way. I'm not a huge fan of them but I can understand why people wanted to go that route. People treat the main thoroughfare in our neighborhood like the Autobahn.
There's an ongoing debate in Walton County about speed humps and their effectiveness in providing safety for pedestrians by slowing traffic versus the negative effect on response time for emergency vehicles. Fire Departments and ambulance drivers hate them. I doubt many would be happy if their house was on fire and the responding truck had to almost come to a stop at each speed hump because they and a truck loaded with 750 gallons of water don't mix well. This is what we are experimenting with right now. They are spaced in a manner that emergency vehicles can straddle them but a normal wheel base car can't.
For me, they would. In my parents neighborhood there are these various islands in between lanes scattered throughout that cause a curve in the road. I don't know their exact name but they kind of remind me of roundabouts, but not 4-ways. I'd rather have something like that than speed bumps.
I wouldn't see it as a positive, but it wouldn't be a strong factor regardless. By the time I pull into my neighborhood the car is out of gear and I'm coasting the last 1/4 mile home.
I bought a house on the backside of a loop. About the only traffic that goes past my house is the next door neighbor, the garbage truck, the postman, and the UPS driver.
The folks who live two houses down go the other way around the loop.
Those who live on the opposite side of the loop have a road connecting them to the next subdivision. They probably get a lot of through traffic and might have a different opinion, but I don't see it myself.
tl:dr buy a house at the end of the world instead.
I bought a house on the backside of a loop. About the only traffic that goes past my house is the next door neighbor, the garbage truck, the postman, and the UPS driver.
The folks who live two houses down go the other way around the loop.
Those who live on the opposite side of the loop have a road connecting them to the next subdivision. They probably get a lot of through traffic and might have a different opinion, but I don't see it myself.
tl:dr buy a house at the end of the world instead.
