BB 200 Speed humps for 2200 block of Indiana Ave, the 2200 block of Missouri Ave, Mississippi Ave between Geyer Ave and the Interstate 44 overpass, the 2200 block of Jules St, the 2100 block of Geyer Ave, the 2000 block of Geyer Ave, the 2000 block of Ann Ave, 2100 block of Allen Ave, and the 2000 block of Allen Ave
Good to see some more humps added, though I wish he'd listen to me about the terrible implementation of the stop signs all around Lafayette Park and how they need curb bumpouts on all 12-16 corners. You can't even really see the ones at Missouri. Especially when you get to the charter school on Lafayette, kids lives are at stake. I've watched the police sit at Missouri and Lafayette and just watch folks blow the stop signs.
I find it hard to believe that we can't mandate a $1 face cover to stop half a million disease deaths per year, but we're going to mandate chemical sensors on ignition locks to save maybe 10k deaths per year a decade from now.
^I figure it's pretty easy to understand. You only really need to get a few car makers on board for the latter. For the former you need to get a few hundred million individuals on board, many of whom deeply distrust the government for reasons both good and bad. Additionally, the face coverings are more obviously intrusive, the downsides are pretty obvious, and the benefits are not as well understood or as generally accepted. It's going to be a hard sell when the cost is in plain sight but the benefit is kind of occluded. With the chemical sensor, the cost is out of sight, but the benefit is pretty clear. Much easier sell.
With the chemical sensor, the cost is out of sight, but the benefit is pretty clear. Much easier sell.
Seems like "your car might randomly kill the engine if the chemical sensor misses" is a much more obvious cost than "wear some fabric on your face". Like, is your car going to shut off when you drive past a party with the windows down? I don't understand how this interlock is supposed to work at all, it sounds like a boondoggle.
^I think you're confusing serious cost and obvious cost. The startup sensor is less obvious for the very simple reason that you cannot see it. That is literally the very definition of less obvious. And if it functions correctly you won't even notice its effects. The benefit might be smaller and the cost larger, but it IS less obvious.
And I think our approach to automotive transportation and all that comes with it needs to be an all of the above approach. Particularly when you consider the environmental cost. Global environmental change is quite possibly a real existential threat to our species. And Covid, bad as it is, is not. (Further, it might well be related. I won't say traffic calming will fix global warming, but I don't think we can fix global warming without it.)
I agree that something needs to be done, but are we going to add speed humps on every single residential block (or at least every one with lots of bad driving)? Is that possible financially?
One of the most publicized spots, Crown Candy, constantly depicts drivers driving poorly two blocks from another speed hump. The guy in this video would've just went over that hump unless he turned off a side street.
I'd rather see pedestrian bumpouts at every intersection. People with little regard for life or traffic safety probably don't care about bottoming out their vehicle either on a speed hump. This is at least an immovable slab of concrete that would seriously mess up their vehicle. Would solve the single-lane passing idiocy in the video above. I think speed humps at every stop sign is brutally onerous though do agree to a point that sh*tty driving has to be engineered into the ground.
