[Summit] speed bumps

[Christopher Buecheler]

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> 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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