Posted on 06/23/2006 2:24:14 PM PDT by steve-b
...A debate over whether to place speed humps on North 35th Street in Arlington County has generally pitted the families in the modest brick ramblers in one neighborhood against the empty-nesters living in the white-columned homes of another. The parents say their kids need safer streets; the other side says the humps are unsafe. Herring describes the pitched battle as "class warfare at its worst."
Community meetings have turned into shouting matches worthy of Britain's House of Commons. "Keep Kids Alive -- Drive 25" signs have been stolen from yards. Fliers and counterfliers are flying. A signature drive was launched.
It's neighbor vs. neighbor in Arlington -- over four speed humps....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
odd- both sides are democrats. LOL.
Keep kids alive...get them out of the street when cars come by.
Sounds like an excellent opportunity for photo radar enforcement.
Call the ACLU! I'm sure the right to play in the middle of the street is guaranteed in the Constitutions somewhere.
I've got the rubber ones in my neighborhood in Texas. No big deal, they're just hard to see at night.
Although people commonly call them speed bumps, traffic planners use the term "humps"
"Speed-hump" sounds like an activity conducted in motels that rent out rooms in 15-minute increments.
Speed bumps are battling gas powered leaf blowers as the dumbest invention ever. Every time someone goes over the bump, the house rattles. If you want people to slow down, put a cop on the street writing tickets to speeders.
I used to hate speed bumps. But then the crotch-rocket convention started in a park on my streets. Week after week, crotch-rocket races up and down and the police will come by about three hours after they are gone. So now, I am in favor of neck-high speed bumps.
Ok, so I figured out that humps in this case isn't doing the nasty in the middle of the road, but what the heck is crotch-rocket? Or do I really not want to know?
Hey now!
Lemme guess. Parents have to send their kids to play in the middle of the street because their over-sized McMansions have taken up the entire lot leaving no room for a swing set in the backyard.
I would not want speed bumps on my street (although live on a circle now). My kids know to look both ways before they cross the street. Teach kids and they will learn. We never had speed bumps as kids and we did fine.
What's a crotch-rocket?
Other than that I hate the damn things!
Speed camera then. Cheaper than a speed bump, while silently bringing in revenue to subsidize pothole repair.
Try "Kids were never taught not to play in the street because parents were too busy watching TV."
The neighbors where I live are terrible about letting their young kids play outside unattended. They're always in the street, .
In the housing area where I live, in the Olympia, Washington area, we have a speed bump at both entrances to the housing area we live in and there are lots and lots of speed bumps in other surrounding areas as well..we have just gotten used to them...
Now in the last few years they have put in round-abouts on many of the streets down here in Olympia...I hate those things, and as often as I have to use them, I will never get quite used to them...we have already had two serious accidents with log trucks overturning while in the round-abouts, as somehow making that turn, unbalances their trucks...and tho the person in the round-about circle has the right of way, many drivers just ignore that, and slam right into the circle anyway...I have seen a lot of near misses, accidents just waiting to happen...I try to avoid going down streets that have round-abouts, but sometimes that is impossible...
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