Drivers Complain Raised Crosswalk Slows Vehicles

Re:Drivers Complain Raised Crosswalk Slows Vehicles by village-idiot on Saturday January 05, 2019 @04:04PM (#18834248)

> I also wouldn't want to drive over a speed bump at 35m

... yes, that’s the point.

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Re:Drivers Complain Raised Crosswalk Slows Vehicles by benj111 on Saturday January 05, 2019 @04:37PM (#18834435)

I get that.

What if they put speed bumps on the motorway/freeway, to slow everyone down for roadworks?

FTA "and was built to slow cars to 35 miles per hour"

Yes use speed bumps to slow people to 20mph, not 35mph.

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Re:Drivers Complain Raised Crosswalk Slows Vehicles by village-idiot on Saturday January 05, 2019 @10:36PM (#18836409)

Your argument seems to center around you conflating various traffic calming measures. If you look at the pictures in the article you will see that they are depicting a speed table, not a speed bump. Speed tables are longer and gentler than a speed bump, and designed to slow the vehicles down less than a speed bump or speed hump. I agree that 35mph is a bit high for most speed tables, but 30mph would not be out of place for such a device.

Obviously hitting a speed bump at 35mph would be a very bad experience, but that's a different device than what's represented in the article.

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