Is speeding an issue where you live?

Happy Thursday!

During our conversations with residents over the last few weeks, one thing has become perfectly clear -- it's time for a change.

Change in government, change in attitudes, change in direction and a change in relationships.

While we have seen past attempts at traffic calming from the current administration, it has not been effective nor a deterrent.  Anyone else see incomplete speed humps -- they do not go fully across the street?  

Or speed hump warning signs yet speed humps are not on the street?

In fact in the areas with the incomplete speed humps, the cars drive AROUND them to avoid going over them.  We have witnessed cars swerving into the bike lanes and the parking areas along the curb just to avoid going over the humps.   SMH. 

And, yes, the police should be enforcing speed limits, but they should not be expected to do all the work of slowing cars!

Along with enforcement there are a number of traffic calming measures that could be deployed throughout the city

• speed humps or actual bumps completely across the street

• speed humps/bumps that are deployed along the total length of a street (full east to west or north to south) 

• 4 way stops at intersections

• bump outs (see picture left) - bumps outs narrow the street and allow for safer crossing of all non motorized individuals.

• intersection 'circles' - these can vary in size and design and make the car traffic slow down to move thru the block or intersection

• raised intersections - these are basically how it reads and makes for the entire intersection to be raised so cars have to slow down to enter/exit. 

So imagine if the driver was faced with block after block of calming measures - not just one set of speed humps in one random location found only once along an entire 1 mile stretch.  That might actually slow down some traffic!

Conquering speeding is on our list of items to be addressed properly.

Vote: Giberson, Loffredo and Potter November 5th.