What I don't understand is why the fuk are there speed bumps right before stop signs? Nonsense.

 

My city did a "traffic calming" thing on one road - it was a straight street through a neighborhood, so they put in a bunch of jutting curbs to make it twisty. basically turned it from a drag strip to a chicane-filled racetrack for me although I'm sure Camry owners are frightened and drive slower.

 

hit it at a 45+ deg. angle and it wont happen OP

 

Much like Saki GT, my neighborhood has opted to put speed bumps to "calm traffic". Never in my 7 years of traveling up and down this road (walked/biked to school everyday until I had a car to drive) have I ever witnessed a single severe traffic infraction that would put someone's life at risk. In my opinion, these speed bumps do nothing but put lives at risk. I have to drive over these speed bumps at ridiculously low speeds to avoid harming my car, and multiple times I've had some idiot pass me while I'm crawling over the speed bump and almost hit a biker that was traveling on the road. Another time I have witnessed a police cruiser speed down the road with sirens on and the speed bump tore off the rear bumper. I can only imagine what it would be like if a fire truck or an ambulance had to travel up or down the road.

 

Even with no finger gap i still can get over most bumps with the right angle

 

Scrape the bottom of my car on these damn speed bumps. Sucks! Worst sound and feeling.

 

I had to drop my friend off one day at work, and he has speed bumps in his parking lot. He told me..."Oh yeah, there are speedbumps so be careful."

I was going <5mph and I still scraped...stock Acura TSX

These things were mini-mountains. Ridiculous. Designed by someone who has never seen a 4 door sedan, apparently.

 

I live in a limited access subdivision that recently put in speed humps on the main road. They are supposed to be the type that if you're going the speed limit (25) you'll glide right over. But, they are too steep and tall. Honestly, one of them is tall enough I'm not convinced I can get my S2000 over (at stock height) without going at an angle. Luckily I don't have to drive over them to leave the neighborhood from my house.

Interestingly enough, this particular road has a bike/pedestrial lane on each side. Of course, the speed hump doesn't extend into the this bike lane, so people use the bike lane to avoid the hump with two wheels. I didn't have a serious problem with that until I was returning home from a bike ride and was using the lane and I had a car swerve in front of me in the bike lane and slam on the brakes causing me to almost rear-end him just becaue he wanted to avoid the speed hump. (He got the .)

A neighbor of mine who has experience in such construction hypothesized that the volume of material for the speed bumps was calculated and measured out based on the width of the entire street, including the bike lanes. Of course, as the humps are not supposed to extend into the bike lanes, the workers that installed them used the entire volume just on the two traffic lanes. Thus, they're too high and steep.

As a result of those that drive around the humps, they've installed white posts to further separate the traffic lane from the bike lane at the speed humps (but they get run over and broken routinely).

As a result of the height/steepness, they've now installed signs suggesting one should slow down to 10mph. They've also installed signs ahead of each location warning of the upcoming speed hump.

The whole concept is stupid to me. Because a select few couldn't keep their speed down, we ALL have to live with unsightly and inconvient speed humps, signs, and posts, AND we are subjected to even more dangerous driving in the vicinity of the humps (especially as cyclists and pedestrians). And the best part, in between the speed humps, people speed just as much.

 

We have a parking lot near my neighborhood that has a straigh section of traffic lanes at the back that is separated from the parking spaces with islands. It's not a road, but it's the proper way to drive from one side of the parking lot to the other.

Apparently, the property owners felt that people were driving too fast, so they put down speed bumps, that are essentiall rubber parking stops held down with rebar spikes.

But instead of causing people to slow down, they cause people to cut through the actual parking lot at unpredictable angles and speeds. I've witnessed a couple accidents where two people cutting across at random angles simply nail each other.

Boy, speed bumps make the world so much safer.

 

in my friend's neighborhood, he has islands, not really sure what you call them. they are slab of concrete in the middle of the road that you have to drive around. the suggested speed limit is 10. when i look around to make sure no one is around. i usually slid around them or take it at 20+ mph. but man i think they are very effective. they is no way around them and they dont mess up the car.

in my girl friend's neighborhood they have round about at intersections where people somehow run stop signs and causes huge traffic jams because retarded people have no ideal how to use them. i saw a lady driving the wrong way once.