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I'm nominating Elmore as jerk of the day for installing two speed bumps in the street along part of my daily commute. They placed them a couple hundred feet apart on a street that I have never once seen anyone speed on and that has probably less than 100 cars travel over per day. AND they are plastic parking lot speed bumps that you have to come to a complete stop for or risk damaging your car. They appeared Friday on my way home from work, the frosting on the cake of what has been one crappy week. My only hope is that the snow plows scrape them off this winter or some punk kids with crow bars remove them.

Hi Mr. Pancake:

Have you made an inquiry to the local streets dept. regarding the installation? A complaint with the proper reasoning may have them removed far sooner than the vandals?

Wayne

I wonder sometimes how much engineering goes into speedbump placement and quantity:

We've got a mini-mall with a 100 yard stretch with speedbumps every 50 feet or so. And then at the end of that run, a shorter 100~ foot stretch of lane with speedbumps about every 20 feet: the back tires are barely off one before the front tires encounter the next.

Seems like most speed bumps (in private areas at least) are gross overkill - you have to practically stop. I hate how the fear of lawsuits leads to such action that ultimately hurts everybody.

Most speed bumps just don't make sense because most of them force you to slow way BELOW the speed limit to negotiate them. So how is that enforcing the speed limit??? STM it's just annoying drivers who go the speed limit.

The only ones I've seen that made any sense were in Stanford, CA. They were lower and much wider than the usual bumps, so that you could drive over them at the 25mph speed limit safely without damage to the car. Much faster than that and you'd have an uncomfortable ride.

The only ones I've seen that made any sense were in Stanford, CA. They were lower and much wider than the usual bumps, so that you could drive over them at the 25mph speed limit safely without damage to the car. Much faster than that and you'd have an uncomfortable ride.

Those are called speed humps. Speed humps are the ones where if you're going the speed limit you don't really need to slow down. Speed bumps are the ones you've gotta damn near stop to go over comfortably.

Aargh! I feel your pain. A relatively quiet, straight road near my house was recently defaced with two big speed bumps - in a dip! You have to brake downhill to negotiate the bumps, then accelerate uphill again once they're past. Stupid beyond belief.

-Simon

This story was in the Genoa-Elmore Today newspaper...

Speed bumps get rough reviews
ELMORE-New speed bumps are not catching on.
At Monday night's village council meeting, Mayor Lowell Krumnow said he's received mixed reviews about the bmps, installed this month on East Rice Street.
"I've heard nothing but negative about the speed bumps. It's been vocal and frequent,"Councilman Bill Kieffer said. Many people have suggested having a police officer posted along the sreet to enforce the speed limit, he said.
Carol Baker, a Harris Township trustee who attends village council meetings because she is on the park board, said she has heard concerns about ambulances not being able to travel quickly over the bumps.
Councilman Matt Damschroder said the bumps don't always work. "At the point where the speed bumps are it takes traffic down to zero. Now, in between the speed bumps I'm guessing it gets back up to 30, 35(mph)." he said. "...I voted yes, but we ought to be able to do this in a different way."
Council discussed the possibility of using rumble strips instead...

Apparently I'm not the only one who has a problem with the speed bumps. As of today they are still there but I now have some hope that soon they may not be.

Woohoo!!!!! On the way home this evening they were gone! It appears they were officially removed- the signs warning of the speed bumps were removed as well.

Awesome news! :woot: