How many cars go down your street each day? How fast were they going? What about folks out on a walk or people riding bikes? It’s not an easy question to answer, as most of us have better thi…
Giants trucks and SUVs are getting more and more prevalent and don’t have to slow down as much. This trend doesn’t appear to be slowing down. You can’t make the bumps big enough otherwise it’s going to wreck cars. People also haul ass immediately after getting off the bump, so you end up with lovely brake squeals and engine sounds for a few hundred feet of decreased speed. They prematurely wear suspension components and brakes and lead to increased fuel usage.
They’re shit and I’m so glad I’ve moved out of the southern US and back into snow country where speed bumps simply can’t exist. I don’t know why speeding through residential areas is so much less prevalent in the north, where there are far fewer speed bumps, but I love it.
None of that agrees with my own experience. Plows don’t seem to have any trouble with them around here, but they still manage to keep traffic slow.
Ideally we’d have streets engineered for traffic calming, but that would take an incredible amount of time and effort in dense areas, so I’ll take the speed bumps.
Personally I’d rather get hit by a car going 10mph than 30. Even better would not be getting hit at all, and lower speed means more time to react.
Giants trucks and SUVs are getting more and more prevalent and don’t have to slow down as much. This trend doesn’t appear to be slowing down. You can’t make the bumps big enough otherwise it’s going to wreck cars. People also haul ass immediately after getting off the bump, so you end up with lovely brake squeals and engine sounds for a few hundred feet of decreased speed. They prematurely wear suspension components and brakes and lead to increased fuel usage.
They’re shit and I’m so glad I’ve moved out of the southern US and back into snow country where speed bumps simply can’t exist. I don’t know why speeding through residential areas is so much less prevalent in the north, where there are far fewer speed bumps, but I love it.
None of that agrees with my own experience. Plows don’t seem to have any trouble with them around here, but they still manage to keep traffic slow.
Ideally we’d have streets engineered for traffic calming, but that would take an incredible amount of time and effort in dense areas, so I’ll take the speed bumps.
Why not 1mph then?