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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That entire area is INSANE. You can't drive more than 20 feet without a speed bump, stop sign or light. Have you driven up Dorset from Little Falls to Wisconsin? WTH???

Roads are for driving, people.[/quote]

Historically, roads were not built for driving. Bikes and pedestrians were using roads way before cars appeared. In reality, roads were multi-use for a very long time. Drives me nuts driving up Dorset so I avoid it, which is the point.  It’s a residential road that doesn’t need cars cutting through to Wisconsin. [/quote]

Don't give a crap about what happened when we got around by horse and buggy. We're talking about 2022. For my entire lifetime, roads have been for driving. Dorset goes from Little Falls to Wisconsin. Can you suggest another road that does that? I'm sorry the wealthy people who live in Somerset would rather have the road all to themselves, but my taxes paid for it and I want to use it TO DRIVE ON. Since that is indeed what roads are made for, in 2022.

If we're addressing pedestrian and bike safety, why not insist pedestrians and bicyclists behaving safely, too? I can't tell you how many times every single day I see pedestrians walking into the street staring straight down at their phones, or with their backs to oncoming traffic, like idiots. No amount of speed bumps can keep idiots like that safe.[/quote]

You are welcome to drive on any road safely.  The rest of us who pay taxes (seriously?) would like you to slow down or pick a route that doesn’t go through a residential area. If you would slow down, you could go through neighborhoods without speed bumps.  But you can’t do that so you get speed bumps. See how that works?
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Who are you addressing? Not me. I follow the speed limit. I drive safely. I also want to live in a community where people follow the rules because they know how to, not because they are hobbled. See how that works?[/quote]

I was addressing don’t-give-a-crap who specifically mentioned Dorset and how they must slow down on a residential street.. (Not Little Falls, for the PP who doesn’t read before they type.) I understand you want to live free and unfettered by speed bumps in a world where all drivers obey speed limits.  But you don’t and impatient ragey drivers like OP are the reason we all get to slow down even further for speed bumps. Some people just cannot control themselves so they have to be controlled.  That’s the real world you live in. That’s how it really works.
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