How to stop speeding cars on a 25 mph street by a school some cars over 50 mph at night?

Question

police and transportation department guest blow it off say speed bump will slow down fire and rescue

Answer 1

Talk to the city again. Get them to install traffic calming measures. Very popular in Canada.

They usually turn intersections into round abouts, thus forcing them to slow down. It helps that in Canada our intersections are sometimes so small that they just throw a planter in the middle and put up a sign and you have to turn around the roundabout since if you don't you hit the chunk of concrete.

also, we put in extra curbs here. This forces people to wait for left and right turning people, meaning no drivers whizzing by while a vehicle is turning.

Any who on earth says speed bumps slow down fire and rescue? Hogwash. They need to think. Get them to use a non standard speed bump. Up here the traffic calming ones are about 2 meters (6 ft) wide and only about 4 inches tall. They're smooth enough that its not a hazard (except for those street racers =P ) but enough to slow people down all the time. To help people see them, theres an obscene amount of signs and they paint them with yellow lines and arrows.

Actually in Calgary, nearly every inner city neighbourhood has these measures. The speed bumps are relatively new, just started the last few years. But by far the most effective, slowing people to below the limit on residential roads. Sometimes they have several in one block then add four more per intersection and disguise them as accessible crosswalks.

Still nothing, convince them to do photo radar there at night. Remind them to imagine the income from the tickets... Maybe fines are lower where you are but in Alberta Canada that's about a $300 fine and if they went about 7 miles more they'll be in court... Or they can be even sneakier and have a speed check in the school zone. Here 1km/h (0.6mph)  over the limit in a school or playground zone ticket is worth about $176.  Calgary Police love to do these, I've seen them borrow driveways and have 3 speed checks in one zone for the cash grab. But I guess that all depends on where you are and your traffic laws.

Answer 2

Have there been accidents?  Is this perhaps a 4 lane road with an unreasonably low (school zone) speed limit?  Many limits around schools are 25mph only "when children are present," and rightly so.

Assuming that this really is a 2 lane, 25mph road, and people really are driving over 50mph on a regular basis, it's a major problem, and almost inevitable that there have been accidents and many near misses as a result.  You tell me, I don't know the details.  

Generally though, my opinion is that police already spend far, far, far too great a percentage of available resources harassing and shaking down people who are trying to drive, and out of that, 95% is spent on speeding and DUI enforcement.  Practically no enforcement on red light runners, left lane bandits, oblivious cell phone nitwits, etc (bad drivers).  People get too caught up in the myth that speeding causes everything bad.  It doesn't.  Drivers not paying attention cause most accidents.

Also, the fact that they dismiss a speed hump (normal roads never have speed bumps, they are for parking lots) because it will slow down fire/rescue seems to imply that it is a regular thoroughfare and the 25mph limit is probably unreasonable.

Answer 3

just set up a blue and red flashing light.

Answer 4

its not your job. just report it.

Answer 5

If they wont help you then call your city manager and file a complaint and then they will do something for you and also get as many of your neighbors to sign an affidavits to support this, the city manager will do more when more people are complaining.....

Answer 6

buy a crown victoria, paint it so it looks vaguely like a local police car, and put something resembling a light bar on top. then park it in the trouble spot. move it around every few hours so they don't figure out it's a fake