I’m working with my neighbors to petition the city to add traffic calming measures (e.g. speed bumps, one way roads) to my street. I’m also hoping to turn it into a bit of a research project. Does anyone know of any tools to monitor or even automate data collection of the speeds of cars, number of cars going by, how many actually stop at intersections/stop signs, etc? If we’re successful with the petition, I think it would be nice to be able to present some data from before and after the traffic calming measures are put in place. Thank you in advance!
There are other things besides speed bumps. I specified those because they are worse than useless imho.
Also, there are non-traffic reasons for ambulances. Heart attacks, strokes, mental breakdowns, household injuries, poisonings, etc.
can you prove they are worse than useless? this is very counterintuitive to me. They effectively calm traffic better than zero speed bumps. Don’t strawman me. I know there are better options. I’m not saying to add speed bumps
So we agree. Speed bumps aren’t the best option. That’s all I’m saying.
A street I used to regularly use had its max speed rwduced to 30 km/h and speed bumps installed. This resulted in me, and apparently many others, not using that street anymore. I’d say they worked pretty well. Some might respond, “Well, now there’s one less road in the area being used by cars, increasing congestion elsewhere.” At which point I’d agree with them, and say that’s probably better than having cars routinely driving past a school.
This sounds pretty similar to the situation the OP is describing.