Does this make any sense to you?
Mar 30, 2015 00:25:25 #
Why place 15 MPH speed bumps in 30 MPH speed zones?
...... Coot
...... Coot
Mar 30, 2015 01:31:45 #
oldgeezer3
Loc: SoCal
I suspect that most of the people in the neighborhood ignore the 30 mph limit! We have speed bumps in our 25 mph residential area for that reason!
Mar 30, 2015 01:46:18 #
I think you missed the whole point I was trying to make. If you want to limit speeds to 30 MPH then put in 30 MPH speed bumps. It makes no sense to limit drivers to 15 MPH with a speed bump in a 30 MPH zone!! ...... Coot
oldgeezer3 wrote:
I suspect that most of the people in the neighborhood ignore the 30 mph limit! We have speed bumps in our 25 mph residential area for that reason!
Mar 30, 2015 01:47:58 #
Mar 30, 2015 02:03:47 #
oldgeezer3
Loc: SoCal
Lazy Old Coot wrote:
I think you missed the whole point I was trying to make. If you want to limit speeds to 30 MPH then put in 30 MPH speed bumps. It makes no sense to limit drivers to 15 MPH with a speed bump in a 30 MPH zone!! ...... Coot
I agree! However, the local government personnel are not noted for their intelectual accumen!
Mar 30, 2015 02:40:03 #
Mar 30, 2015 04:50:58 #
Lazy Old Coot wrote:
Why place 15 MPH speed bumps in 30 MPH speed zones?
...... Coot
...... Coot
N. arithmetically speaking, in does not make sense.
Mar 30, 2015 08:43:23 #
Here's government thinking:
I lived in a community where the cops were too lazy to police for speeders.
So they put in speed bumps.
Normally most people would drive thru at about 30mph.
Now, since they have to slow down to about 2 or 3 for the bumps, they make up time between bumps by doing 70.
Much safer for the kids.
I lived in a community where the cops were too lazy to police for speeders.
So they put in speed bumps.
Normally most people would drive thru at about 30mph.
Now, since they have to slow down to about 2 or 3 for the bumps, they make up time between bumps by doing 70.
Much safer for the kids.
Mar 30, 2015 14:22:26 #
Yep, speed table is government speak for speed bump. ...... Coot
Photomacdog wrote:
What is a speed table? Is it a speed bump?
Mar 31, 2015 05:43:00 #
If it's anything like here the speed bump is in the 15mph zone. The 30mph limit begins where the 30mph sign is. It signifies the change from 15 - 30. If I were visiting and driving that is how I would interpret the situation.
Mar 31, 2015 07:15:20 #
Lazy Old Coot wrote:
I think you missed the whole point I was trying to make. If you want to limit speeds to 30 MPH then put in 30 MPH speed bumps. It makes no sense to limit drivers to 15 MPH with a speed bump in a 30 MPH zone!! ...... Coot
I think "30 MPH speed bumps" would be just ordinary roads. :D
The speed limit here is 30 mph, but people tend to go faster, so, they put in a speed bump to force people to slow down - unless they're driving someone else's car, of course.
Overall, it seems like a ridiculous situation. Do you really want people slowing that much on a road. I've seen that situation before in malls, but never on a public road.
And "Speed Table"? Is that even a legitimate term? How about "Progress Interferometer"?
There was a housing development near here that had speed limit signs like, "15 1/2 MPH" and 12 1/2 MPH." They did it just to be cute and call attention to the signs.
Mar 31, 2015 07:23:24 #
You just have to be amused. In my area we have a yellow 30 MPH "Intersection Ahead" sign that was placed ten feet in front of the regular white 45 MPH speed sign. So I always wonder if I am supposed to drop down to 30 MPH for the ten feet between signs - well before the intersection. But you know - it's government work - someone's job was to install the sign - not to actually think about what they were doing...
Mar 31, 2015 07:47:46 #
jerryc41 wrote:
There was a housing development near here that had speed limit signs like, "15 1/2 MPH" and 12 1/2 MPH." They did it just to be cute and call attention to the signs.
There was a housing development near here that had speed limit signs like, "15 1/2 MPH" and 12 1/2 MPH." They did it just to be cute and call attention to the signs.
Read between the lines. These speeds equate to 25km/hr & 20km/hr. Backdoor metrication? Not happened here (for roads) yet but this is how it begins. Not saying it will, but there could be a little more than coincidence here.
Mar 31, 2015 08:30:26 #
Lazy Old Coot wrote:
Why place 15 MPH speed bumps in 30 MPH speed zones?
...... Coot
...... Coot
I thought the 30 mph sign was just a suggestion. As part of the total lack of respect for the law that is now apparent in the USA, no one seems to drive the speed limit. They use is as a base suggestion only.
Mar 31, 2015 09:03:37 #
White signs are the actual must follow signs. Yellow signs are only advisory. Which means that going past a yellow 15 MPH sign at 30 is not illegal. But because of thew bump, it is advised.
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