Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only if you are going too fast.

They don’t make streets impassable, they just slow you down. If you choose to cut through, it’s the price you pay.

Nope, many cause damage if you are going the speed limit and require cars to drop well below the speed limit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you all call them speed humps in DC?

No, we call them speed bumps. OP is just a nutjob.

Anonymous wrote:They add wear and tear to your vehicles. Look up how much it costs to replace multi-link suspension components and control arms . I have no problem with speed cameras but speed bumps are idiotic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only if you are going too fast.

They don’t make streets impassable, they just slow you down. If you choose to cut through, it’s the price you pay.

Nope, many cause damage if you are going the speed limit and require cars to drop well below the speed limit.

Anonymous wrote:I hate speed humps. Perhaps they have their use in a suburban subdivision but why do we need them in a city? The street east of the Giant off of Wilsonsin has like six humps. Can anything be done except to avoid them and find other routes?

Anonymous wrote:Only if you are going too fast.

They don’t make streets impassable, they just slow you down. If you choose to cut through, it’s the price you pay.

Anonymous wrote:I honk as I go over them. My own little protest to the residents on the street who petitioned the city to have a speedbump installed. The city only puts them in by request, so wherever you see one, it's because someone on that street asked for it. So now they get to hear my horn at all hours of the day or night. I hope it annoys them as much as their bumps annoy me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People shouldn't speed in residential neighborhoods anywhere, city or suburbs. So on that basis I'm a fan of speed humps.

But the PPs insisting that you shouldn't cut through neighborhoods and that all traffic must stick to main roads need to grow up and shut up. You live in a highly congested urban area. You do not live in a gated community. Cars and other vehicles may and should traverse past your precious home. Forcing all traffic on a few main roads doesn't improve anyone's lives.

Personally I hate the workarounds that have been developed in the old money neighborhoods of Chevy Chase MD to make it difficult for traffic to cut through -- so I do so (at the posted speed limit) every single chance I get. And I might honk a little too!

I'm a DC driver so not a Maryland person cutting through but I HATE speed bumps. We live in a an urban, grid-like city. Every street should be passable. Helps keep traffic down. Why do people speed on a given street - often to make a light. Fix the problem. Like making the cross lights for Connecticut so long All speed bumps do is divert traffic to your neighbors streets. Luckily, I have a car that can cruise over them with no problem - so I always go the full speed I can on a street that has speed bumps - 25. Normally, on some of those tight ones - I'd be going 15 or 20 but I am so annoyed with the residents that I don't.

And Chevy Chase MD drives me crazy.... I often cut through too. We have some of that in Upper NW too - especially around Military/Nebraska. Hate it.

Really the answer is to invest in good mass transit so that there are less cars on the road!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I honk as I go over them. My own little protest to the residents on the street who petitioned the city to have a speedbump installed. The city only puts them in by request, so wherever you see one, it's because someone on that street asked for it. So now they get to hear my horn at all hours of the day or night. I hope it annoys them as much as their bumps annoy me.

My DH does this too.

So he thinks it’s ok to wake up people - and their sleeping kids - because the neighborhood wanted to keep their children safe by having DC install traffic calming?

Here's a thought. If you were any kind of parent your kids would be safe without speed humps. That's because you would actually, uh, parent and keep your brats out of the street.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I honk as I go over them. My own little protest to the residents on the street who petitioned the city to have a speedbump installed. The city only puts them in by request, so wherever you see one, it's because someone on that street asked for it. So now they get to hear my horn at all hours of the day or night. I hope it annoys them as much as their bumps annoy me.

My DH does this too.

Anonymous wrote:People shouldn't speed in residential neighborhoods anywhere, city or suburbs. So on that basis I'm a fan of speed humps.

But the PPs insisting that you shouldn't cut through neighborhoods and that all traffic must stick to main roads need to grow up and shut up. You live in a highly congested urban area. You do not live in a gated community. Cars and other vehicles may and should traverse past your precious home. Forcing all traffic on a few main roads doesn't improve anyone's lives.

Personally I hate the workarounds that have been developed in the old money neighborhoods of Chevy Chase MD to make it difficult for traffic to cut through -- so I do so (at the posted speed limit) every single chance I get. And I might honk a little too!