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Ban the speed bump?
Winston-Salem City Council member Dan Besse proposes proposes a ban on neighborhood requests for speed bumps to control speeders: Besse told members of the city’s public works committee on Tuesday…
Traffic calming
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Why Pave?
Main Street Sylva will soon be torn up with bump-outs and left-turn-only lanes. The roads were too drivable. Should the traffic calming slow traffic too much, we shall need somebody…
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Is This Some Kind of Statement?
If I didn’t feel so guilty about all the starving children around here, I would buy myself some electronics gadgets, and then I would have been able to snap a…
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State Flower, State Tree
I took a ride through the old hood, Redwood Forest to be exact. Back in the day, it was a nice neighborhood of mid-sized houses with nicely-kept yards. Now, it…
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Traffic’s Bad – Part II
While on the subject, why do cities not have enough money to repair chuckholes, and yet they engage in traffic calming? They make streets nice and smooth only to chunk…
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Weirdness Trickling Downhill
Hendersonville used to be a nice little town. In recent years, it seems damaged by a push to turn it into a tourist trap. Main Street has been traffic calmed…
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World’s dumbest roundabout comes with an instruction booklet
The News & Observer reports today that Drivers on Hillsborough Street are still flummoxed by a twin-ring roundabout that replaced the stoplight at Pullen Road more than a year ago.…
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A shocking headline
Those of you who’ve followed this forum’s public policy discussions must have been surprised to read the following in this morning’s News & Observer: Roundabout has unforeseen costs The brief…
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Town of Matthews Tried to Kill People Today
In one of the more braindead moves I’ve seen in a while, the Town of Matthews — which is in the process of destroying its downtown with traffic calming measures…
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Like Marshmallows in Chocolate Ice Cream
These days, in the Smoky Mountains, rocks and highways are partnering, forming synergistic relationships that create jobs, as well as opportunities for virtual tourism. A form of traffic calming, they…
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Traffic calming that I can support
See details here. Dissatisfied with Mooresville’s answers to neighborhood traffic concerns, the Winslow Bay Home Owners Association decided to solve the problem itself. HOA members bought stop signs and paint…
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Angry Neighbors With Paintball Guns
That’s the name of a group that, according to this Herald-Sun story, has organized in Durham. Well, they’ve certainly gotten everyone’s attention — particularly people who drive through Durham. A…