Tag: Speed Humps

Community Speed Watch: Is it Snitching or Driver Education?

By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director  Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #713 in September 2022. If you like to subscribe to the NMA one topic motorist issue newsletter, click here.  Green Bay, Wisconsin Police Department recently announced that it has partnered with the Green Bay Neighborhood Associations to start a ‘Community Speed Watch.’ […]

Community Speed Watch: Is it Snitching or Driver Education? NMA E-Newsletter #713

Green Bay, Wisconsin Police Department recently announced that it has partnered with the Green Bay Neighborhood Associations to start a ‘Community Speed Watch.’ The department hopes that the program will bring more awareness to speeding. Lt. Nate Allen added, “One of our number one complaints in the city of Green Bay is traffic and the way people […]

Motor City should be Renamed Speed Hump City

The city of Detroit recently identified more than 2,000 new speed hump locations. The plan is to install 3,000 of the traffic obstacles by the end of 2022. That is in addition to the 5,500 humps added throughout the city in 2021. When this street obstacle program started as part of Detroit’s Complete Streets program, the […]

Motor City should be Renamed Speed Hump City: NMA E-Newsletter #696

The city of Detroit recently identified more than 2,000 new speed hump locations. The plan is to install 3,000 of the traffic obstacles by the end of 2022. That is in addition to the 5,500 humps added throughout the city in 2021. When this street obstacle program started as part of Detroit’s Complete Streets program, […]

Calm Before the Storm: NMA E-Newsletter #689

The city of Sarasota is located on the Gulf Coast of Florida, just south of Tampa. Its population has declined in recent years to about 55,000, according to the 2020 U.S. census, within 24 square miles of territory. During the winter months, the number of residents swells somewhat with the snowbird migration from the north. […]

How to Fight Speed Bumps, Humps, and Cushions Part 2

By California NMA Member Stacey Charlton  In Part 1, we learned the difference between speed bumps, humps, and cushions. Overseas they are called “sleeping policemen.” There are many disadvantages to these so-called road hazards/control devices …I mean speed calming devices that are not clearly disclosed through a city’s public work’s engineering department. This series of […]

How to Fight Speed Bumps, Humps and Cushions Part 1

By California NMA Member Stacey Charlton  Speed bumps, humps, and cushions are the common names for traffic calming/control devices that lie in the street in both a vertical and horizontal plane to make drivers slow down. The many disadvantages to these road hazards are not always clearly disclosed through a city’s public works, traffic engineering, […]