[Summit] speed bumps

[Kim Clark]

agree, i’d rather see the potholes fixed than these horrible lumps and their accompanying sign pollution.

these don’t slow traffic, they stop traffic and/or cause people to swerve to avoid, they’re so big and so obnoxious i think they are most likely to cause road rage. Eventually, people will just use side streets to avoid.

Is Rochambeau really that dangerous? 

what a waste of money! And such an unnecessary nuisance.

kim on dex

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> On May 17, 2021, at 4:41 PM, Martha Fraenkel <mfraenkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Re Chris' comment about funding the lumps,  i hope this is not a rhetorical question.  who/what/when/why?
> 
> On 5/17/2021 4:26 PM, Sumati Eberstadt wrote:
>> Yes to all of that, Christopher. 
>> 
>> Sumati
>> 
>>> On May 17, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Christopher Buecheler <cwbuecheler at gmail.com <mailto:cwbuecheler at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm just curious why there's enough budget to add obviously slapdash, ill-conceived and dangerous speed bumps all over the town when nobody except Blackstone Blvd's gotten a sidewalk repair in over a decade, and the only time since I moved to this neighborhood that any streets have been resurfaced was when Providence Water was legally obligated to do it. I'd much rather see money spent on maintenance, dedicated bike lanes, and enforcing things like "it's illegal to park halfway up on the sidewalk outside of Bank of America because you're too lazy to use the parking lot twelve feet away, or in the no parking zone out front of Seven Stars because you're too lazy to find legal street parking, thus creating a dangerous visibility situation that threatens pedestrians, motorists, and cyclists alike."
>>> 
>>> Far as functionality goes, I assume the speed bumps will just join the Big Brother machines on Blackstone in causing people to speed, then slam on their breaks, then slam on the gas to get back to speeding.
>>> 
>>> -Chris
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 3:30 PM Martha Fraenkel <mfraenkel at gmail.com <mailto:mfraenkel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> I hope everyone is sending their speed bump trauma to nirva.  
>>> 
>>> Seems to me they're a design failure; you have to virtually stop to get over them without bottoming out.  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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