Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war

Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by rconti on Monday June 06, 2016 @09:15PM (#11851756)

Speed bumps suck. They're put there to intentionally increase wear and tear to cars and have minimal impact on traffic speeds. It's only accelerated the arms race to buy bigger and taller vehicles so that you can plow over speed bumps ever faster.

There was a neighborhood where I grew up that had speed bumps in a neighborhood that were smoothest if you hit them at about 40mph. That did nothing but INCREASE traffic speeds (myself included).

We've got speed bumps in our neighborhood. They suck, and people just speed over them anyway.

Ditto using stop signs as traffic calming measures. YAY, let's increase air pollution (fuel burnt), increase noise pollution (accelerating and braking vehicles), increase water pollution (brake dust and other byproducts) and waste everyone's goddamned time by making every single car come to a stop (regardless of cross traffic or pedestrians) just so that some NIMBY can think SOMETHING WAS DONE.

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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by X-Istence on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @01:05AM (#11852500)

I once heard from a traffic engineer that certain speed bumps are made to be gone over at 20+ Mph faster than suggested so that ambulances and emergency personnel can travel over them with little to no trouble.

I've noticed this myself in certain areas, the speed bumps taken at higher speeds cause less issues, but it still of course increases wear and tear on motor vehicles, in most cases unnecessarily so.

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