According to a study from AAA, the average risk of severe injury for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle reaches 10 percent at an impact speed of 16 mph, 25 percent at 23 mph, 50 percent at 31 mph, 75 ...
The humble speed hump is a proven winner when it comes to, in the terminology of transportation geeks, "traffic calming." They compel leadfoots to slow down when driving through residential ...
You can find lots of things on the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts: an abundance of bike lanes, shops hawking Harvard merch, and empty Sam Adams bottles. But you won’t find the raised, rounded ...
The speed humps that have become commonplace on city streets were designed to slow vehicles down, thus providing a measure of safety for pedestrians and bicyclists and relief for residents tired of ...
Mount Prospect will place temporary speed humps and carry out other traffic calming measures in the Hatlen Heights neighborhood. But it remains to be seen what effect those measures will have on ...
ST. LOUIS – Wednesday is often referred to as “hump day,” the midpoint of the work week. Every day is now becoming hump day for drivers in St. Louis. The City of St. Louis has spent nearly $8 million ...
WORCESTER – City drivers are over the hump. Last week, 35 speed humps were removed from city streets, smoothing things over for winter snow clearing. The temporary speed humps, located on 21 streets ...
Coming to a Boston street near you: speed humps. This jolting method of speed enforcement involves a large mound of asphalt — three to four inches tall and 11 feet to ride across — placed every couple ...
Burnham Park residents hope to increase traffic safety by adding new speed humps to the neighborhood. The process of getting a new speed hump requires significant neighborhood support, common council ...