‘Slow Streets’ is stupid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here in North Arlington. If I drive through my neighborhood at 25mph (speed limit) I get looks from all the K****S like I am a reckless maniac. If I drop it down to 15-20, these idiots act like I am cruising around looking for a kid to abduct.

I guess it has just become second nature for these folks to complain.

If you drop down from 25 to 15 you can half the risk of death to pedestrians. So yeah, I think you deserve the looks you're getting. 25 in a pedestrian setting is fast.

[Anonymous]

People who tear down Slow Street signs are neighborhood heroes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who tear down Slow Street signs are neighborhood heroes.

Driving fast on neighborhood streets is your vision of super hero?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who tear down Slow Street signs are neighborhood heroes.

Do people actually do that? How childish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who tear down Slow Street signs are neighborhood heroes.

Do people actually do that? How childish.

Of course. People hate Slow Streets. It's so dumb.

[Anonymous]

I feel like the slow street signs at this stage create accidents. No one avoids driving down a slow street. They just jam up when trying to turn into or out of one.

[Anonymous]

Ours work great. A lot of traffic has moved to the wider streets in the neighborhood that already have speed humps and to the larger arteries. Don’t know what will happen once the pandemic is over but it has made our area more livable while many people have been WFH and DL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like the slow street signs at this stage create accidents. No one avoids driving down a slow street. They just jam up when trying to turn into or out of one.

So people slow down? very interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like the slow street signs at this stage create accidents. No one avoids driving down a slow street. They just jam up when trying to turn into or out of one.

So people slow down? very interesting.

Did I say people slowed down? They also create blind turning.

[Anonymous]

In my neighborhood, where you already have streets that require very slow movement for cars to get past each other, adding slow streets is stupid. It doesn't slow anyone down, it doesn't prevent anyone from going down the streets, and it creates traffic at intersections and potential for accidents.

[Anonymous]

So a jam up doesn't slow things down? Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like the slow street signs at this stage create accidents. No one avoids driving down a slow street. They just jam up when trying to turn into or out of one.

Slow Streets has to be the dumbest idea to come out of the DC government in a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So a jam up doesn't slow things down? Interesting.

Yes, you are correct. When cars have stop because they've hit pedestrians because they couldn't see them due to the slow streets signs, they slow down. Seems ideal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So a jam up doesn't slow things down? Interesting.

Yes, you are correct. When cars have stop because they've hit pedestrians because they couldn't see them due to the slow streets signs, they slow down. Seems ideal.

Have pedestrians been hit by people slowing down for slow streets? Where has this happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So a jam up doesn't slow things down? Interesting.

Yes, you are correct. When cars have stop because they've hit pedestrians because they couldn't see them due to the slow streets signs, they slow down. Seems ideal.

Have pedestrians been hit by people slowing down for slow streets? Where has this happened?

Georgia and Lamont/Kenyon, NW.

It’s the turn on Lamont which gets backed up due to the slow streets sign. Then cars on Georgia going south try to get around the back up but can’t see, and a pedestrian was crossing.