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FordMaverickFan t1_ix394jv wrote

Instead of installing speed bumps like we used to the city now digs into the asphalt. This doesn’t slow down the cars and makes every car that goes over it as loud a humanely possible.

It has been an absolute nightmare since my neighborhood got them and I was one of the idiots advocating for it.

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TheFAPnetwork t1_ix3ah46 wrote

FWIW I'm not okay with the rubber speed bumps. I prefer the asphalt humps as they don't break apart over time. The only real issue with them is to coordinate it with the snow plows

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[deleted] t1_ix3wzro wrote

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AbsentEmpire t1_ix5ru46 wrote

Sounds like they're working.

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AbsentEmpire t1_ix7zuii wrote

Speed limits don't work to control traffic speed, this is a well known problem. The only way to control speed is to design streets and roads that do it inherently through their design.

Such as being narrow, having speed bumps, and being single lanes.

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Leviathant t1_ix6qvmm wrote

We had a pair of trenches in our street from new construction tapping into the water main. Loud as fuck all day, and as an added bonus, it would shake the house - especially when an 18 wheeler or a bus went past, which wasn't uncommon because we're very close to a bus parking lot.

Unfortunately, I don't think any traffic calming technique is going to be effective in Philadelphia. There's a remarkable lack of self awareness by drivers in our city.

One of the ways I could alleviate the noise in our situation, since the trenches only crossed half the street, was to drag traffic cones into them. That worked for 48 hours max, before someone plowed right through the cones. Eventually enough people managed to drag them off under their car that I switched to a PGW folding plastic barrier. Usually good for a few days, and then wham - someone would just drive right through the damn thing.

And I can't make this rant without pointing to another post from today. Philly drivers just do not give a fuck.

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