Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:46:24 -0700
From: jdm@ILLUSIONS.COM ("J.D. McKim")
Subject: Optional Speed Bumps
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu


Hi Glendale,

You folks have seen fit to implement weapon restrictions in parks and
public buildings which only affect law-abiding citizens.  Now you have
applied the same fallacious reasoning to speed bumps, of all things.

The city has installed speed bumps on 59th Lane, between Northern and
Orangewood.  These aren't the old-style speed bumps that give eveyone who
crosses a jolt.  No, these are "new and improved."  There are spaces left
at wheel width so a vehicle travelling down the center of the road can pass
without "getting humped."  You cleverly painted a double line right down
the center so people who swerve to the middle of the road to avoid the jolt
can be cited.  Cute.

I've read about these newfangled speed bumps, which have been advocated by
some for the purpose of allowing emergency vehicles to pass umimpeded, but
before experiencing them myselftoday I thought they were still just some
idiot's crazy proposal.

What exactly are they supposed to accomplish?  Any drag racer will speed
down the middle of the road and avoid hitting the bumps.  Yet, I can be
cited for swerving around the bumps (crossing double line) even if I'm
travelling under the speed limit.  If an officer is present to cite people
for avoiding the bump, couldn't he just as easily cite people who are
exceeding the speed limit?  Why do you have speed bumps that are optional
for speeders, but mandatory for the law-abiding?

You guys and gals have a penchant for adopting policies that only harm the
good guys.  Wake up.

J.D. McKim