Speed humps or speed bumps, and other traffic calming elements, are often combined with neckdowns and/or curb extensions. Take a look at the roundabouts the city has recently installed for examples.

This would help increase their visibility and, better yet, slow traffic (due to visual narrowing effect) prior to vehicles arriving at the actual road element.

If permanent neckdowns can not be installed, temporary ones can be used. Some even allow rainwater collection, which can make them far less costly than the permanent types. See attached example.

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The bottom of your car is only angry because you were going too fast. If you weren't speeding, it wouldn't have been a problem. I say don't paint them! :-)

Have you ever gone 20-25 mph over a speed bump? It is not a pleasant experience, and if 25 mph is the speed limit, I'm fairly certain it's not speeding.
Speed bumps are meant to be crawled over... and if they're not visible, they present a problem. Speeding or not, somebody is going to mess up their car - or worse.

25 is a perfectly reasonable speed limit here but, for reasons unknown, a very small section of a very small street is marked as 15 mph. Coming from Edgewood Way, the first 15 MPH sign is actually just after the first bump.

It is a bit odd that in a town with so many roads needing work, this tiny little sub section of a tiny little road somehow warrants so much individual attention. They did the chicane last year or the year before, with at the time some barriers and an obstruction in the middle of the road. They eventually removed the barriers and obstruction and left the painted lines, presumably because the physical bits were a hazard.

Now, we have difficult to see speed bumps with signs that are also not that eye-catching that may end up being a hazard all over again. I'm very curious how much has been spent appeasing what appears to be no more than 8 homes and for that matter, who lives in those homes to gain so much attention from the town.

NHPD occasionally sets up w/ radar at the base of the hill and has a few officers on foot pulling people over here.
Maybe they figured bumps would be more efficient than police?

I say we don't paint them... the first speed bump slows you down for the new speed limit of 15mph. If you don't want your car to get damaged then slow down... Did you ever take into account children or our neighbors walking their dogs?!

Also the barriers were taken away because of how many people were SPEEDING through and hitting them! If you were being an aware driver you would notice there is a sign stating " speed hump ahead" in attempt to caution drivers to SLOW DOWN so as not to destroy your car! :]

This is what happens when you change a road so many times!!!!
We shouldn't have cars flipping over and hitting houses on this road, someone could have gotten killed!!!

A car flipped over because of their inability to read posted speed limit signs. Additionally, a car would not flip unless they were going to fast. Do you think it's ok to travel at 60 miles an hour in a residential neighborhood? I think not... I walk this street daily and have not since these humps were put in because they are not slowing people down and instead are causing people to lose control!

I completely I agree with you "vista walker"
It is awful that people are driving this fast in the first place... The reason is because drivers thing they can pass up the traffic on forest road so they take vista terrace...

Just wait until the snow is here there will be a lot more accidents... Beware.

The thought of snow makes me cringe. I think making this street a one way heading up the hill would be helpful. Just a thought...

That's actually not a half bad idea!
I know neighbors would be pretty mad but it's worth a shot since people are driving like maniacs!

Being mad is not important when your life is at stake... This road is dangerous!!

The news should have covered what happened tonight! Maybe then we can get something done about this road!

"Figyask8ter" --- I could not agree with you more! I feel like contacting Wtnh on my own...

If people are SPEEDING through and hitting barriers and flipping cars, then these are not safe and effective methods of traffic calming. I do think of kids and walkers. Fast traffic can be a problem, but a control method that punishes an offender by launching his car off the road endangers those walkers far more than an overly fast but in control vehicle.

A solution that endangers is hardly a solution.

How about a traffic light at Marvelwood with one of those gotcha cameras on top? Put it just out of sync with the Fountain light and bam, too annoying for people in a hurry to use Vista, the camera grabs their plate. Then nobody has to learn by wrecking their cars and possibly the Vista residents property.

Putting a light at marvelwood may be to close to the intersection of fountain street and vista terrace but it could actually work at laurel rd.
After that wreck last night I think the speed humps need to be removed.

I go outside daily and can watch tons of people speeding and bottoming out of those humps. I just hope something is done before the snow gets here!

There are clearly signs posted warning of speed humps. there is a stop sign at the top of vista and laurel rd and there is a posted speed limit. This driver that flipped his/her car ran the stop sign and was clearly speeding. Any responsible driver would have stopped and proceeded at the legal speed. They would not have been in an accident. Lets have the appropriate party take responsibility. The Humps are going to be painted in the very near future. I would hope that those who live and walk in the Vista terrace area be a little patient to see if these speed humps slow down traffic.

The speed humps already have caused a fender bender and a flipped over car... Which hit a house! It is extremely dangerous! I doubt it will stop even when the speed humps are painted... If you were to stand outside you can watch people that just don't care that the speed humps are there. Plus the humps don't cross the road all the way making people swerve.

I stood out in front of the house where the car flipped over and I don't believe that the speed hump caused the accident because the hump is beyond the house. driver must have lost control before the hump. Also noticed that the humps and and all the signs informing drivers of the humps were slowing down traffic. I would continue to say let some time go by and we will see if the humps do the job.

Now it seems like much of the traffic is avoiding Vista and is racing down Marvelwood instead.
If the light on Forest and Fountain could be programmed to prevent such a back-up, then people would resume cutting through Dayton to get to Whalley.
Many of these drivers are headed toward 15, and since the Whalley construction they have been cutting through the neighborhoods to save a minute or two.
Gotta feel bad for those homeowners at the end of Forest though...

The speed humps work! Not everyone, but many people DO actually slow down. In fact, the terrible accident goes to show they work. You cannot drive 60 MPH down a residential road and hit these humps, and expect everything to be okay. Humps are supposed to impose a risk! As was the chicane. You see, it brings cars closer together to force them to slow down to prevent hitting (unfortunately that didn't work because there was no real method to enforce -- one just needs to go over the painted lines, which everyone did). A traffic circle works on the same principle. They are safer precicesly because they impose a greater risk to vehicles that aren't cautious.

Remember safety and security is a tradeoff. The tradeoff on the speed humps is they slow traffic down, and if you act like an idiot then you mess up your car. Hopefully a flipped car is truly an isolated case, and others will slow down (though why we are in this mess in the first place, is because in New Haven it is commonplace to drive so fast).

The humps work! Thank you!

cans of striping paint for asphalt are sold at many hardware stores. i recommend the kind that are inverted so they spray upside down easily. it dries really quickly.

just wear something visible, have a friend as a lookout to warn you of oncoming traffic, and do it yourself on a lower volume of traffic day.

jordan

your comment makes no sense to me. if the neighborhood in which these speed bumps exist wish that they were easier to see, but the city (in a pretty severe economic recession, if you haven't noticed) hasn't responded to their concerns, how exactly would it hurt the situation to paint them themselves? oh no! someone saw the speed bump enough to slow down before they drove over it! the horror.

or do you just want to bash people with ideas? how does that help anything?

(for the record, i wont move away because i LOVE new haven. and i do have a real job.)

i obviously responded to you, jordan. but it was late at night and someone else was still logged into this computer.

how about you keep things civil? or do you just want to spew nonsense on the internet?

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