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Extreme Makeover: Speed Bump Edition

Usually Staten Island’s in the news for its law-averse drivers, but here’s a different take: Renegade homegrown traffic engineers.

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This entry was posted on Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 8:40 am and is filed under Traffic Culture, Traffic Engineering, Traffic safety. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Extreme Makeover: Speed Bump Edition”

  1. Yokota Fritz Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    While I appreciate traffic calming I’m not a fan of speed bumps at all (for the reasons I think you addressed in your book). Still, amazing the local authorities moved quickly to remove the guerrilla traffic calming while apparently ignoring the real problem.

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