Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:34:09 -0000
From: kylben@earthlink.net ("Kyle Bennett")
Subject: Re: [lpaz-Pima] Speed Humps & Traffic Circles
To: lpaz-Pima@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: lpaz-Pima@yahoogroups.com


comments within....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Foley" <foleyj@ultrasw.com>
To: <lpaz-Pima@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 2:12 PM
Subject: [lpaz-Pima] Speed Humps & Traffic Circles


> Folks:

>

> I just received notice of the quarterly meeting of my neighborhood

> association.  On the agenda is the placement of speed humps and traffic

> circles, the undoubted purpose of which is to impede traffic flow on local

> roads, in the interest of Quality of Life, the Safety of the Children Who

> Are the Hope of Our Future, and Community in general.

>

> So, any comments on how I ought to participate?


Do some research on what the fire department has to say about speed bumps.
Tell your neighbors that their speed bumps may cost them their lives someday
if it means an extra few seconds for the ambulance to arrive.

Circles are inefficient and very dangerous if not done very large, as in
Europe.  The large ones may actually improve traffic flow, but small ones
take away the advantage of allowing traffic to merge instead of cross.  This
is very dangerous.  There was one at a busy intersection near where I grew
up.  (if you want to research it, it was in Des Plaines, Illlinois, at the
intersection of Wolf Rd. And State Rte 58, Golf Rd.).  That intersection as
by far the highest accident rate in the town.  I was in court once for a
ticket elsewhere in town, and the Judge asked for any cases invovling that
intersection first, then summarily dismissed them on the grounds that if he
couldn't figure out how to get through there properly, no one else should
have to either.


>

> Every other neighborhood in Tucson is blossoming with traffic impedance

> devices.  Would I be crazy not to support them in my own neighborhood?


Yup. You don't have to regularly deal with the ones in other neighborhoods
(until they start putting them on speedway, that is), but the local ones
will mess with you every day.  Ask the neighbors to demand from the city
their share of the money that would go to the construction, then just
distribute it among the neighbors as a tax refund.

--Kyle Bennett





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