The city added speed humps to my residential street several years ago and it has made a hugely positive impact on deterring speeding drivers. I am grateful for them.

I think, in practice, some of them have been ill-placed or maybe made a teeny bit too high but overall, it's a minor inconvenience.

I live off of Messer and I find the the planters on the side of the road to be more enjoyable, as a driver, although sometimes irritating, as people think the road is too narrow when indeed, they have enough room.

Edit: The planters do make me scared to bike down Messer, although there are side streets that don't get as much traffic that I take instead.

Generally, I think they've been somewhat effective, though I know they annoy a lot of drivers. I also notice that for the most dangerous vehicles (large pickups and SUVs with high front heights which make it more likely a pedestrian will be crushed under the wheels rather than falling onto the hood), the speed hump "solution" is fairly ineffective; these vehicles' widths tend to be enough to adequately clear the humps without slowing down much. So, we're effectively slowing the safest vehicles, but still failing to stop the most dangerous ones.

Ideally, we do things like raised crosswalks and planting trees along street edges and doing road diets and then start separating out pedestrian, cycling, and vehicle uses... but I won't hold my breath (I will raise it with the city councilors I know, though).

Some of them are massive and I personally hate them. But a lot of dipshits in Nissan Altimas carrying a 540 credit score don’t know how to drive and were endangering the rest of us, so I guess they’re better to have

My house has been hit twice, and my neighbors house once by cars speeding on a curve and losing control of their vehicle. After they put the bumps on the curve a few years ago, never again

Yes, but I think there are better alternatives, including focusing on noise reduction.

Angry drivers are the problem, and until they face consequences for their actions nothing will change.

Put them everywhere all the time. There’s no downside to cars slowing down in a city.

I'd love some installed on our street tbh.

I think every neighborhood benefits from speed bumps, but the ones on Main by the Whole Foods make me feel like I’m about to total my car by going over them at 5mph.

Paolino has complained about them, and Paolino backed Smiley’s campaign. So unless they are overwhelmingly popular I don’t see the mayor jump starting this initiative (though I like them).

They have slowed cars down in our neighborhood for sure. Not everything but it’s part of the solution and bike lanes, and cameras and noise cameras and raised side walks etc etc… feels like lots of small things make the big difference, over time.

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If it was about pedestrian and community safety, they would have put them in the road that runs through chad brown… think about that one.

Support. The amount of self-centered assholes I see absolutely flying down narrow side streets is appalling. They aren’t going to correct their behavior on their own anytime soon and I need to leave the apartment to go to work and shop etc. so this is probably the best solution.

I'll take a speed bump over a speed camera.

Hated them at first but now don’t mind them, as long as they’re not the ugly plastic ones

"Speed bumps can cause a significant delay in the response times of emergency services. It will take emergency vehicles an additional 20 to 30 seconds to get through each speed bump. This time is crucial when dealing with life or death situations."

Only Reddit would be in favor of traffic cameras which are inherently racist. The speed bumps do nothing to slow down the truly reckless and most dangerous to the safety of our streets and residents

I strongly oppose them. They slow down fire trucks and other emergency vehicles.