To all the assholes in Columbia City swerving to avoid driving over speed bumps: what the fuck is wrong with you?? Those bumps were put there specifically for YOU.
Your neighbors have the right to not get run over by you, the dickhead going 10 over in the rain, after sundown, in a neighborhood with SO MANY KIDS (AND BIKERS)! Stay out of the bike lane and just go over the damn speed bump!
I heard people don’t like speed bumps because they can mess up your car, but most of you jerks are driving shiny new SUVs. News flash: if your car is advertised as being able to go “off-road” then it can handle a fucking speed bump. Stop being a selfish piece of shit.
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Friend of friend who owes an automotive repair shop which specializes in re-alignment: “We love speed bumps! Add more speed bumps!” To this unsurprising assertion the usual reply is: “Well if you’d just take them at the recommended 3mph, your car would be fine!”
I love driving over speed bumps! So much fun. And I like it when the automated sign flashes “SLOW DOWN” at me. That sign is not the boss of me!!!
If you can simply swerve around them, maybe a design flaw?
Not even close to being as bad as the morons that blast their way down Raineir in the bus lanes in the Caprice/Suburbans on donks.
Seattle’s war on cars is creating more road rage while increasing accidents / incidents.
Vision Zero has actually made things worse.
I hope the council wresting control of the transportation budget can reverse the trend of making everything worse for getting around the city.
@3: The cutouts in the speed bumps are spaced so that (wider) emergency vehicles can straddle them. And get to where they need to go in a timely manner.
This has increased the popularity of the Kodiak pickup trucks. Beware of unintended consequences.
@2: “sign flashes ‘SLOW DOWN'”
Interesting but of trivia: Those signs used to flash the actual detected speed. No matter how high. Until people started using them to measure drag races.
Note to IA: you don’t own the street (we all do) and when bumps are designed to rattle the suspension of my tired old buick even at 3 mph I really do look for any way possible to avoid. The war on cars in this town has gotten really old!
Jenny Durkan’s “Traffic Calming Measures,” changed most speed limits to 25mph across the city.
A friend owned a pub on Rainier Ave. S. reported there: weekly (A) auto vs. pedestrian or bicycle, and (B) monthly auto vs. building collisions. Some had fatalities, all had emergency response, and they often snarled traffic for hours.
These “traffic calming measures,” reduced accidents by 20-40%.
Worth noting, people hit by cars going 20mph or less, 90% survive.
Grow up, and get over the speed bumps (safely), or find another route to avoid them. IF you want to argue that we could place rubber speed bumps bolted to the roads at a fraction of the cost, installation, and maintenance, I’m all ears and an advocate. No one in the City Council seemed to like hearing about them. The same goes for “All-Way-Walk” at most troubled intersections. That is, the ones where people keep getting hit by ‘right on red’ folks trying to beat the crosswalk “traffic.”
Consider it a time-tax for civilian safety, and pay your fair share routinely, and with patience.
Plan ahead, make time for traffic, and don’t take your frustrated life out on everyone else on the roads we all pay for and (try to) share. Just imagine if you ever kill someone driving angry….
@7: I gave up on driving cars in Seattle a long time ago. My 45 year old 4×4 takes speed bumps, pot holes and construction zone steel plates at 30 MPH like a champ. With no suspension damage or alignment problems throughout its life.
Of course, it sounds like a pile driver doing this. Sorry about that at 3AM. Don’t like being woken up? Call your city council person.
@8: “Worth noting, people hit by cars going 20mph or less, 90% survive.”
Not nearly good enough for Vision Zero.