Finally - after 26 years! Happy dance!

[Popeye]

Some thoughts on speedbumps / traffic calming:
1. Speedbumps have gotten larger as average vehicles get larger (i.e. small SUV is now the family sedan). Stinks for folks like us with small cars. (e.g. Doc going sideways over bumps!)
2. Speedbumps "confirm" to drivers that your street is a shortcut.
3. As an alternate to speed bumps, in my parents neighborhood (south side of Chicago), the city put planted islands in the middle of intersections. (Same works in the middle of a street.) It looks much nicer than a speedbump, and does a better job of slowing cars.

My two cents...

 

[waltesefalcon]

Some thoughts on speedbumps / traffic calming:
1. Speedbumps have gotten larger as average vehicles get larger (i.e. small SUV is now the family sedan). Stinks for folks like us with small cars. (e.g. Doc going sideways over bumps!)
2. Speedbumps "confirm" to drivers that your street is a shortcut.
3. As an alternate to speed bumps, in my parents neighborhood (south side of Chicago), the city put planted islands in the middle of intersections. (Same works in the middle of a street.) It looks much nicer than a speedbump, and does a better job of slowing cars.

My two cents...

Must be large intersections to have room for an island and traffic.

 

[Popeye]

Must be large intersections to have room for an island and traffic.

Or small enough that you have to drive slowly through them..

(the “islands” are not much bigger than a large flower pot. Point being, that makes you avoid something and this slow down.)

 

[DrEntropy]

Or small enough that you have to drive slowly through them..

(the “islands” are not much bigger than a large flower pot. Point being, that makes you avoid something and this slow down.)

I need to "Google" that... wonder if anyone would notice a Midnight Potting Mission...

 

[NutmegCT]

Around here, speedbumps and "islands" are targets for the local pickup truck crowd.

Drivers seem to get a thrill bouncing over the speedbumps, or smashing into planters. Dual diesel exhausts, raised suspension, oversize double rear tires, full throttle to stay in low gear while roaring down the streets. yeesh

 

[waltesefalcon]

Tom, from all the problems you've had with guys in pickups it makes it sound like your neck of the woods is more redneck than mine.

 

[JPSmit]

I need to "Google" that... wonder if anyone would notice a Midnight Potting Mission...

Pretty sure if you google Midnight Pot Mission you will get very different results

 

[LarryK]

They do that here too! NutmegCT. I asked one why they want their trucks to sound like motorcycles? Their was no comment, street more peaceful on garage side.

 

[DrEntropy]

Pretty sure if you google Midnight Pot Mission you will get very different results

Poor choice of terms on my part...

 

[Basil]

Around here, speedbumps and "islands" are targets for the local pickup truck crowd.

I sometimes get the feeling you don't much care for Pick Up Trucks LOL! A large percentage of people in my town here in the southwest drive pickups but they don't seem to cause the kinds of issue you describe. The ones that drive me bonkers are the trucks that are converted to low riders and which have stereo systems with speakers that produce bass that literally rattles the trim on your car when you're next to them at a light!

 

[LarryK]

I owned pickup trucks, just kept exhaust noise down. Had custom exhaust for towing and was a legal 89 decibles. Just don't like the idiot kids in noisy mufferless trucks. Hate the boom, boom of the radios too. Law says should not be heard 50' from vehicle. Never saw Police stop one yet.

 

[Basil]

I owned pickup trucks, just kept exhaust noise down. Had custom exhaust for towing and was a legal 89 decibles. Just don't like the idiot kids in noisy mufferless trucks. Hate the boom, boom of the radios too. Law says should not be heard 50' from vehicle. Never saw Police stop one yet.

Around here the kids don't have noisy trucks as much as they have noisy rice-rockets.

 

[waltesefalcon]

I sometimes get the feeling you don't much care for Pick Up Trucks LOL! A large percentage of people in my town here in the southwest drive pickups but they don't seem to cause the kinds of issue you describe. The ones that drive me bonkers are the trucks that are converted to low riders and which have stereo systems with speakers that produce bass that literally rattles the trim on your car when you're next to them at a light!

Ditto this. Most guys around me that have pickups aren't a nuisance. There is only one high school kid that drives around with a loud exhaust on his F250. And no one is running anything over.

 

[NutmegCT]

Funny thing is that I have nothing against pickup trucks! But the drivers ... childish and irresponsible behavior, destroying property, and irritating people just to show off. I live in a rural (farming) area, and the "vehicle of choice" is the pickup. You can estimate the age of the driver by eyeing the truck: working adults have dirty, worn, dented, and relatively simple trucks. The young guys have almost brand new, raised, diesel, bling covered, oversize tires - and those trucks are never dirty (except for mud racing).

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, this was a pickup:

Gol dern whipsnappers...

 

[waltesefalcon]

On an only tangently related note, my son who is a marine said that a lot of guys he knows have never seen a grain elevator.

 

[Basil]

Funny thing is that I have nothing against pickup trucks! But the drivers ... childish and irresponsible behavior, destroying property, and irritating people just to show off. I live in a rural (farming) area, and the "vehicle of choice" is the pickup. You can estimate the age of the driver by eyeing the truck: working adults have dirty, worn, dented, and relatively simple trucks. The young guys have almost brand new, raised, diesel, bling covered, oversize tires - and those trucks are never dirty (except for mud racing).

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, this was a pickup:

Gol dern whipsnappers...

A lot of the people I know with nice big shiny pickups have nice big shiny Airstreams they pull behind (oh to dream!)

 

[John Turney]

We have speed humps on our streets here that are wide enough and gentle enough that my lowered Healey can get over them if I slow below 15 mph. The sharp bumps in parking lots take about 30 seconds to get over. I was in a hotel last weekend that had to bolt-on bumps that were really bad.

 

[LarryK]

Hey Walter, when i was.stationed at Camp LeJune in 1969, a North Carolina Marine came in barracks dressed in blue jeans, shirt and jacket with a Stetson hat and cowhide boots. He lived on 5000 acres on one of the Carolina Mtns. A real cowboy. That Christmas he came back from leave and announce they now have electricity.

 

[JPSmit]

Hey Walter, when i was.stationed at Camp LeJune in 1969, a North Carolina Marine came in barracks dressed in blue jeans, shirt and jacket with a Stetson hat and cowhide boots. He lived on 5000 acres on one of the Carolina Mtns. A real cowboy. That Christmas he came back from leave and announce they now have electricity.

When I was at CFB Borden in 1984 we had a kid from rural New Brunswick who needed to talk to his parents, we had to arrange a time for the parents to get to the neighbours as they still had no phone.

 

[AngliaGT]

Hey Walter, when i was.stationed at Camp LeJune in 1969, a North Carolina Marine came in barracks dressed in blue jeans, shirt and jacket with a Stetson hat and cowhide boots. He lived on 5000 acres on one of the Carolina Mtns. A real cowboy. That Christmas he came back from leave and announce they now have electricity.

Yeah.....but did they have flush toilets?