Traffic Control In Your Community
If you would like to avoid having an unsightly and potentially dangerous speed bump on your street, you must go to any local central authority conferences where traffic issues are discussed. Possibilities are high the folks suggesting speed bumps and stop signs will be there making their case. Most of the time, they're unchallenged and the measures are much more likely to be passed. If you should happen to feel strongly about keeping your street safe, you owe it to yourself to go and present a different standpoint.
Government officials and traffic engineers who may understand that what some subjects are calling for are not the optimum solutions may feel helpless in the face of their protests. It cannot be agreeable to hear grouses over and over about speeding on a street. If a speed bump or stop sign appeases the angry residents, that can end the discussion, even if it doesn't truly do any good.
If you go simply opposing the measures, you're probably not going to make much progress. Have another solution ready for everybody to think about, for most satisfactory results.
Be ready to point out the disadvantages of the techniques being considered. Needless stop signs slow traffic, cause congestion and can really contribute to speeding as people rush to the sign to make up for time lost by the stop. Speed bumps slow emergency vehicles, increase street upkeep costs, increase noise, damage vehicles in time and look ugly. Slowed emergency vehicles are the largest danger, because fire trucks and ambulances will most likely have to stop before rolling over the bump, increasing reply time.
Rather than these options, a radar speed sign is a proven traffic calming device. Drivers slow down spontaneously when their speed is compared with the speed limit right before their eyes. The landscape does not change, there's no road construction required, and emergency vehicles are not affected.
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