Speed Humps: Not What They Seem
People having heart attacks and strokes die from the delay to EMT and fire equipment caused by speed humps, and houses burn to the ground.
Transportation planners have consistently downplayed the significance of lengthening response times caused by speed humps. USA Today's "Special Report" spells out the number of lives that are being lost by slow response. http://speedbumps.50megs.com/Usatoday.htm
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Ronald Bowman's scientific analysis in Boulder, CO proves many more people will die from delay to emergency response by calming devices than vehicles -- speeding or not! http://americandreamcoalition.org/safety/bowman.doc
The elderly and people with disabilities suffer lasting pain and injury caused by traveling over humps.
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Humps create greater air pollution and neighborhood noise due to braking, deceleration and acceleration of vehicles.
Humps cause damage to car suspensions.
Humps make snow removal more difficult.
Humps may cause neighborhood friction.
Were you told any of these things?
How many accidents, injuries, and deaths have there been on Central Avenue in the last 70 years?
Are you sick and tired of bumping over these things every time you go out?
Did anyone even ask you if you wanted speed humps?
Did anyone in authority tell you about the dangers of humps, or was calming portrayed as the answer
to everyone’s prayers?
The speed humps should be removed to save lives and property.
