RepeatedFailure t1_jd3odvc wrote on March 21, 2023 at 4:40 PM

Reply to comment by Gnarlsaurus_Sketch in Let's pour one out for the developers of Pittsburgh by PublicCommenter

The speed bumps slow traffic and make the city more livable. They are a ban-aid on decades of car centric design baked into the fabric of the city.

Gnarlsaurus_Sketch t1_jd3pz44 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 4:51 PM

An ugly, sticky, itchy, obstructive, annoying, wasteful, and noisy band aid. Compared to alternative solutions, the speed bumps needlessly create more fossil fuel and other emissions, increase road noise, and don't increase safety more than other traffic calming measures.

They also increase wear on vehicles, obstruct emergency vehicles, and make suburbanites less likely to patronize city businesses.

Probably the worst "solution" possible IMO. Lane narrowing and chicanes does the same thing, but that is harder to implement. Gainey took the easy but shitty road here.

dfiler t1_jd3rvvl wrote on March 21, 2023 at 5:03 PM

We shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good. Speed humps have been extremely beneficial in some parts of the city. Sure, a restructuring of our built environment would be a preferable solution. But that's extremely complicated and rarely succeeds. So while we continue pursuit of a better city structure, I am in favor of using speed humps.

Gnarlsaurus_Sketch t1_jd3y3yk wrote on March 21, 2023 at 5:42 PM

Gainey isn't pursuing a better city structure though. He's simply taking the path of least resistance. Taking a bare minimum approach that gives no thought to the long term concerns shouldn't be good enough IMO.

Speed bumps are the very worst method of traffic calming. Literally anything else would be better.

S4ltyInt3ractions t1_jd9gyvg wrote on March 22, 2023 at 8:02 PM

Social protest and just beep your horn over every bump they will be removed quickly

Gnarlsaurus_Sketch t1_jda0n4x wrote on March 22, 2023 at 10:11 PM

Lol. Tempting, along with hard 0-60 pulls followed by slamming on the brakes in between the bumps.

burritoace t1_jd63oam wrote on March 22, 2023 at 2:23 AM

We could marginally slow traffic on a single stretch of road with chicanes or we could marginally slow traffic on many stretches of road with speed bumps. I know which I'd pick! This overheated stuff about their alleged harms does you no favors.

E: I'm no fan of Gainey but this program started under Peduto. Just a very weird thing to get on Gainey's case about.