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reckless driving/speeding through your neighborhood: WDYD?
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Anonymous
| What do you do about speeding in your neighborhood? As a community, we are researching traffic calming measures. But on a case-by-case basis, do you call 911? A non-emergency number? Keep pennies in your pocket and throw them at the speeding cars (just kidding)? |
Anonymous
| We have this issue on the street in and out of our neighborhood. We've looked at and continue to look at speed bumps, stop signs, getting the cops to come and take radar, etc. Individually, some neighbors have actually stopped cars to ask them to slow down. The reaction we've universally found is that these people could care less about what their neighbors think of them and their speeding. I hope you have more success but wanted to say to continue to pursue neighborhood solutions. |
Anonymous
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You could ask police to have an unmarked car there, which probably won't happen; take their license but you can't prove how fast they were driving; or, you could try a Citizen's Arrest.
Basically, as you already know, the only think you can do is keep your kids out of the street. |
Anonymous
| Call your non-emergency police department number and describe the situation, and also ask if they have community services police who handle these types of neighborhood issues. |
Anonymous
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I want to get a bb gun and shoot out their tires.
I think speed bumps - the really big and nasty ones - are the only thin that really works. |
Anonymous
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Does anyone know what the technical issues are that prevent photo enforcement in residential areas---and what's being done to address that problem?
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Anonymous
| "Slow Down Your Neighbors" |
Anonymous
| position an old baby stroller with a doll in it in the middle of the road and, when the cars hit it and the doll flies out, run screaming 'you killed my baby!'. repeat as necessary. |
Anonymous
| Our street sometimes attracts cut-through traffic. Neighbors frequently park their cars on the street to create a slalom effect that slows drivers. Even better is when we park our cars directly across from each other, creating choke points that force cars to yield and navigate that stretch one at a time. |
Anonymous
To increase effectiveness, get a very tall baby stroller, and replace "doll" with "cinder-block". |
Anonymous
It's too expensive to put in a residential area. They only do it on the highest traffic areas, and of those the ones where there are lots of accidents. |
Anonymous
Your strategies have an unintended effect. Those choke points are really dangerous if a kid actually does walk out from behind one of those cars. |
Anonymous
| OP here. I love the stroller idea, LOL. I have noticed cars slow down if I'm on the sidewalk with my kids. I would plant a dummy on the sidewalk if it weren't super creepy. I also wonder if one of those "slow down, children at play" signs would work, or if it would end up mangled and tossed in my front yard (along with the used condoms and fast food wrappers I've found there - classy people pass through my neighborhood). |
Anonymous
Love it! |
Anonymous
LOL |