Dearborn Adding Speed Bumps To Curb Reckless Driving: Here's Where

DEARBORN, MI — Officials announced Thursday crews will install speed humps in three busy areas to curbed speeding and reckless driving in Dearborn neighborhoods.

"Dearborn residents have been clear from day one: we need to make our roads safer," Dearborn Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud said. "This program is about thinking beyond reactive measures and taking a preventative approach. These persistent public health and safety issues require dynamic, innovative, and multi-pronged strategies that lead with feedback from those directly affected."

Crews will install the speed bumps in these three locations:

• Hemlock St adjacent to Hemlock Park
• Lapeer St adjacent to Lapeer Park
• Silvery Lane adjacent to Levagood Park

Officials said they chose these locations because:

• They are not in close proximity to one another, allowing for a greater number of residents that can observe them and provide feedback
• Each location is adjacent to a park and known to be a source of traffic complaints
• Homes are not facing the areas where the speed humps will be located
• There will not be anticipated disruption to public services, deliveries or parking

Hammoud also asked residents to fill out this survey to offer feedback on the pilot sites and to provide ideas on where future sites should be.

Shortly after taking office, Hammoud secured a $200,000 allocation for new traffic-calming measures and fund new initiatives such as speed humps, officials said.

Hammoud also convened a task force to research and advise on traffic-calming strategies to enhance neighborhood road safety, and to treat road safety as a public health issue, officials said.

The task force was led by Dearborn Police Sgt. Andrew Galuszka, who guided the group's mission is to enhance road safety from all angles, including the engineering of the City’s roads to enforcement and community messaging campaigns.

"Our task force reached a consensus to place speed humps near some of our busiest parks," Galuszka. "This pilot will allow for a period of time to gather data and feedback about the use of speed humps as the overall traffic calming program continues to develop. The process of developing a traffic-calming program is dynamic and evolving."