Speed bumps, yay!
Was pleased Wednesday to see signs going up to alert drivers about the series of speed bumps that have finally been added to my block.
Drivers sometimes come whizzing down here from the Met so it will be good to remind them to slow down, they’re on a residential street.
Ian 22:28 on 2024-11-20 Permalink
Congrats!
Not going to lie, I chuckle every single time I hear a car bottom out on the speed bump in front of my house.
David 22:47 on 2024-11-20 Permalink
I was also happy to get speed bumps on my street when I lived on the plateau, until I realized that I’d be constantly hearing car motors accelerating between the speed bumps. Although, I also chuckled when the cars bottomed out.
Kevin 23:24 on 2024-11-20 Permalink
I am always amused at seeing giant cars going over speed bumps as if they’re carrying unpackaged eggs.
JP 23:28 on 2024-11-20 Permalink
I also appreciate the speed bumps that were installed near my home but I wish they had been painted and signs installed right away. I was driving home and didn’t know there were speed bumps there the first time….I wish I could say I chuckled but instead I was pissed off.
Sam 09:11 on 2024-11-21 Permalink
Speed bumps are fine and dandy, but in my neighborhood, they are on the street that the fire trucks use to get to the main thoroughfare and in front of an elementary school..
Every morning and afternoon I pray that there is not a fire when the children are getting on or off their busses.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
DeWolf 11:09 on 2024-11-21 Permalink
A pickup truck can roll over speed bumps without slowing down, why would you worry about fire trucks?
dhomas 13:57 on 2024-11-21 Permalink
I asked for speedbumps in my neighbourhood, because there are a lot of people that go waaaaay too fast in the 30 zone next to the park and bike lane (think 70km/h, sometimes faster), where my kids and others play. The city said something about it not being feasible because a city bus route passes along this street. I wonder if I was just getting the runaround.
JP 21:02 on 2024-11-21 Permalink
@dhomas. I’m sure there are many examples but there are speed bumps on Dudemaine in Cartierville (close to O’Brien) and the STM’s 164 route runs on that street, so I do not think that is a valid reason not to put speed bumps . . .
Orr 19:33 on 2024-11-22 Permalink
It is my understanding that the fire department has an often-used superpower to veto new speed bumps and other traffic-calming measures.
Nicholas 11:46 on 2024-11-23 Permalink
There are devices called speed cushions (years ago sometimes called speed tables, though that term is now more used for another thing) that are basically speed bumps that are narrow enough that a firetruck or bus with large axles will not touch but wide enough that cars will. You can also just make them of asphalt, cutting a “hole” in the right place. Also nice for bicycles. They’ve been around for well over 15 years, as I remember talking about them in 2009 and there was lots of information about them online.