The Greensboro City Council is set to get some bad news about speed bumps, speed humps and other traffic calming devices at the work session on Thursday, Nov. 30.
It’s scheduled to take a lot longer than councilmembers imagined.
At the July 20 City Council meeting, Councilmember Goldie Wells brought up the issue, noting that councilmembers are constantly getting requests from residents to do something to slow traffic in neighborhoods.
After the idea received support from several other city councilmembers, Mayor Nancy Vaughan said, “We want a program for speed bump, humps and traffic calming and we would like to see it, I would say 90 days at the most.”
On August 24, the City Council held a work session on speed bumps, humps and other traffic calming devices. Greensboro Department of Transportation Department (GDOT) Director Hanna Cockburn gave a presentation on traffic calming devices and said implementing them would cost about $1.7 million a year and, unlike most transportation projects, there were no federal or state matching funds available.
To back up a little further, in September 2021, at a work session, Cockburn said GDOT would start installing temporary traffic calming devices and, if they worked, they could be made permanent.
At the work session on Thursday, Nov. 30, according to the presentation, the City Council will be given a timeline on installing traffic calming devices in neighborhoods.
The timeline has the work being done to install these devices in neighborhoods in “Spring 2025.” According to the timeline, the process will start in spring 2024 with applications and screening and data collection and analysis. The summer of 2024 will be spent on “Community Engagement.” The fall of 2024, or a year from now, GDOT will spend on building consensus on projects and confirming community support. The winter of 2024 the installations will be prioritized and the projects will be delivered in the spring of 2025, and in the summer of 2025 performance will be measured.
The City Council requested action on this in September 2021, and again in July and August of this year.
Transportation projects move slowly, but imagine how long it might take to install some speed bumps in neighborhoods if it wasn’t a City Council priority.
Besides screwing with leaf collections, are speed bumps councils only concern? I am no longer amazed at this council but with the economy the way it is and the increase in taxes , can’t council find something….anything to help the citizens? Every town has a village idiot -unfortunately Greensboro pretty much has a full council of them. Your vote so think about using it wisely.
The city has enough money to pave the city with speed bumps.
No matter where I drive around town, people zoom past me right and left, including in school zones. I would guess 70-80mph on 4-lane 45mph zones such as Holden or Wendover; and +20-25mph in lower speed zones. The councilmembers know this to be true. You wanna walk across Wendover at the lights?
The simple solution to all this is LAW ENFORCEMENT, you dummies. Packs of speed cops around the city at all times of the day will bring most of this to a halt.
Many of us have children and grandchildren in school. We are also endangered by reckless drivers, even more so by those with those dumbphones in their face. Pull up at any stoplight – you know who they are; if you don’t see any, it must be you.
I think this project should be tabled for at least a year. My guess is that once the City’s new, improved leaf mismanagement system is fully effective, the excess leaves that are not picked up (or compacted onto the former grassy lawns of the most virtuous) will create many cost-free speed bumps, humps and traffic calming obstructions all over the City. And with adequate slow traffic compressing these calming structures, by the time the masticated leaves make their way into Buffalo Creek they will probably be unrecognizable as either excess leaves or temporary traffic calming devices. And just think. We would save the City $1.7 million a year…
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You ain’t seen nothing yet.
The Left is conducting an undeclared war on our cars and our right to drive them. The political Left has always despised the private automobile, because they can’t control it. It represents individual freedom and independence, two concepts that are anathema to liberals. They want to herd us like cattle onto “public transportation”, if they will allow us any degree of mobility at all in the future (“15 Minute Cities” &/or “Smart Cities”).
The legislation has already been passed to force manufacturers to install “Kill Switches” in vehicles, beginning in late 2025. These are systems which purportedly detect “impairment”, and if they do, your car will not start. Big Brother is not only watching, he’s taking your keys.
NHTSA also wants passive and active “speed monitoring”, which means that if you dare to ignore the speed limit – as everyone does – you will be nagged by your car to slow down (passive) or your car will actually force you to reduce your speed (active).
This is what The Democrats have planned for us – and they will do it unless we stop them.
You probably don’t even live in Greensboro City or can even walk or ride a bike. I’m glad you have made this a conservative conspiracy.
I ride a bike and a motorbike (Suzuki DR650).
No conspiracy buddy. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Educate yourself.
Anyone who rides a DR650 can’t be all bad.
Thanks Wayne! I love it because as I drive down the road and get a wild idea to explore the adjacent fields or woods, I can do so. It’s fantastic!
I love Dual Purpose bikes.
Speed bumps are always taken out….they don’t work long term….speed guns and traffic tickets do work ….
The way our streets a falling apart, the pot holes should take care of the speed problem .
Ain’t that the truth!