Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war

Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by ThrustVectoring on Monday June 06, 2016 @08:07PM (#11851498)

Speed bumps usually kill more people by slowing down ambulances than they save by reducing vehicle speeds.

The best way to keep a street quiet is to remove the cues that tell drivers that they can drive quickly. Narrow the street, remove the sidewalks, add trees and other visual noise to the margins, and remove lane markings. Replacing asphalt with gravel can also help (and is cheaper to maintain).

You don't need to fine people to get them to slow down if the road is terrifying to drive on at more than 20 MPH.

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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by arthurdenture on Monday June 06, 2016 @09:15PM (#11851754)

> Speed bumps usually kill more people by slowing down ambulances than they save by reducing vehicle speeds.

I don't think you're going to find research to support that. At least, I couldn't. http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6419/do-speed-bu... has some interesting discussion of it.

I'm a big fan of the other advice, though, about changing the road design to discourage speeding.

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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by ThrustVectoring on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @01:10AM (#11852512)

Thanks for the link - apparently I need to flag "things I vaguely remember being as facts I read at some point" as "possibly an urban legend".

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