Ideas for Slowing Down the Speeders in Your Neighborhood
Does Your Neighborhood Have the Need for Speed?
Check with your local government whether you live in a city or an incorporated area governed by a county to find your procedure. However, here is information on how my local government handles the "need for speed" for our local neighborhoods that perhaps can offer you some guidelines.
Speed Hump Program
A Speed Hump is a raised asphalt platform that does not exceed three inches in height and is approximately 16 feet long. Our county will install it beginning at the entrance of the neighborhood to alert drivers of more speed humps to follow.
You must find out if your neighbor is eligible. All local governments have a certain criteria. For us we must:
1. Request a traffic counter to monitor the traffic in the neighborhood. We need to have at least 800 minimum and a maximum of 3,000 vehicles per day.
2. A street sign that is posed with a speed limit of 30 mph or less.
3. The street has an observed 85th percentile speed greater than 30 mph.
4. The street has a maximum width of 24 feet.
If all requirements are met, we submit a petition to the Traffic Engineering Division signed by at least 66% of the homeowners within the subdivision of the particular roadway. The board of County Commissioner will review it for approval or disapproval.
Neighborhood Speed Monitor Program
Another way to help curb the speed in a neighborhood is by using a speed monitor so that drivers can be alerted on how fast they are traveling through the neighborhood. Sometimes, drivers are not even realizing they are traveling 10 miles over a limit of 25 mph in a neighborhood because they just came off of a fast moving road.
Our county will provide free of charge to use the speed radar unit. It is portable so you can move it around different areas in your neighborhood that could need more attention.
We contact our Traffic Engineering Division to see if one is available. If not we are put on a waiting list. There are some strict guidelines once you do get a monitor. You must:
Not contact any drivers that are speeding
Not place the Speed Monitor in the street
Attach the Speed Monitor to an immovable object with the chain and lock provided
Contact the Traffic Engineering Division if there is a problem with the unit
Return it to the Traffic Engineering Division.
The Speed Monitor is the simplest way to start getting the attention of neighborhood speeders. The Speed Hump is a more involved process. However, no matter which one you use, as a citizen you can make a difference in your neighborhood by initiating a solution.
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Excellent information. People need to slow down and stop trying to race from point A to point B. Is it worth running someone over? I wouldn't want that on my mind for the rest of my life. I'm always thinking of the possibility of a child running out into the street. Those without kids may not being thinking of them, but they need to. Very thorough info!
Excellent information. People need to slow down and stop trying to race from point A to point B. Is it worth running someone over? I wouldn't want that on my mind for the rest of my life. I'm always thinking of the possibility of a child running out into the street. Those without kids may not being thinking of them, but they need to. Very thorough info!
Great article. I have seen those speed monitors and I have seen that I was going a little faster than I thought sometimes. I slow down immediately. Very well written.
We need one of these on out street!
We could use this in our neighborhood. Thanks for the great ideas.
I read this with great interest as speeders have been an issue on our street ever since they opened up a formerly closed dead end. Now our street is a short cut for many drivers and one they use at rush hour, not slowing down, a time when children are often playing, etc.
I'm bookmarking this one! Thanks! Well-researched and with all the info I'd wanted.
Very good suggestions. I live in an area where there are lots of kids walking to school and playing.
Well thought out program for reducing speeders.
great article!!!!!!!