Nieghborhood calming.
Saw that term in a headline in a newspaper I picked up yesterday.?ÿ Hallelujah, this is a term I had never encountered and will not see happen anywhere close to me.
The concept is that I have a street providing access to my home but I don't want anyone else to use it because it is inconvenient to use in general.?ÿ What a load of the byproduct of digestion.
Sure, it slows that ambulance down that you need by ten minutes, but, hey, you only die once, so don't worry about it.
Is it about speed bumps or roundabouts (or both)? Or adding center medians on bigger roads. My previous town added center medians on the main drag several years ago. I vaguely remember something about not being able to see as far tends to slow traffic.
My previous street was used as a shortcut to miss a traffic light. HWMBO sometimes made noises about asking the city to install speed bumps but I didn't want them. I didn't want to hear the ka-thunk ka-thunk all the time.
Is it about speed bumps or roundabouts (or both)? Or adding center medians on bigger roads. My previous town added center medians on the main drag several years ago. I vaguely remember something about not being able to see as far tends to slow traffic.
My previous street was used as a shortcut to miss a traffic light. HWMBO sometimes made noises about asking the city to install speed bumps but I didn't want them. I didn't want to hear the ka-thunk ka-thunk all the time.
My previous house...the country installed speed bumps, I HATE SPEED BUMPS.
Traffic will go slower if you delete the overly wide pavement (a residential street is like a drag strip), eliminate the concrete, make it feel dangerous, people will slow down. But Engineers hate that.
My wife never obeys me. We went on a long roadtrip...I made her let me drive at least half the time (maybe I'm disproving my point). She doesn't like some driving thing I did, so she says, "you don't listen to me." I said, "welcome to my world."
My city has gone mad on cycle-lanes.
They say they are "international best practice"
But I do no believe the community is being at all well-served (and I'm a keen cyclist)
There are kerbs in strange places, large areas of insane islands and trip hazards all over the show.
We seem to have been hi-jacked by traffic department completely out of control, and our city council seems unable to rein them in.
<Rant Over>
The news story explained how 23 traffic calming devices, of four types, would be used to discourage cut-through traffic. There will be eight speed humps, two speed cushions, six chicanes and seven traffic circles. Chicanes are a sort of curb extension that extend into the street, essentially a narrowing of the road at midblock intended to reduce vehicle speeds.
Photo of a type of chicane:
Why do I suddenly think of "Ol Motorhead Paden" on his motor tickle roaring through that neighborhood just to see what the max speed really is?
@holycow
I traverse a street like that every day on the way to and from the office.
The speed humps, narrowing and chicanes that slow me in the 4WD simply do not exist on a motorbike. And on a bicycle they are irrelevant 🙂
