Advice on slowing down speeders in residential neighborhood?

[Daniel]

clays are super loud and leave behind tons of black smoke.

[Mike.357]

clays are super loud and leave behind tons of black smoke.

and the downside to that would be?

[Guest Medic908]

Find out who your neighborhood representative is (county commissioner, city council, etc...) and contact them about signage, speed bumps, etc. for your street. In the meantime, find the non-emergency number to your local law enforcement dispatch center (should be in the front of the phone book) and ask them to have an officer to come talk to you about the speeders. Try to catch the tag numbers on the offending vehicles and give them to the officer when he/she arrives. If it is an election year, your local represenative should be more than willing to help.

[Guest RISC777]

Watch the law about putting up signs that "direct traffic" in one way or another (turns, speed limit, etc.), saw a neighborhood with the same problem discussing that one.

Buy some old baby buggies, put some old dolls in them, roll them out in front of the faster speeders a few times. (Might need a lawyer on that one too, though.)

[Guest Boomhower]

Unlike regular Speed Bumps, these humps were much larger in width, and not quite so high.

Yeah, those made for great late night rides around town in old junkers when I was younger.....

But really though, speed bumps are probably the way to go. After a few hits, even retards realize they can't keep banging over those bumps without eventually doing some type of suspension damage......Oh, and I usually avoid roads through neighborhoods that have these speed bumps. I'll bet that there is probably another road just down the way that will take these speeders to their desired destination as well. You could be avoided all together. Wouldn't that be nice?

As for calling the cops.....that will probably work for a while. Then you will eventually be known as the guy that just wants somebody to complain to. They'll do a few drive by's every so often as requested, but even that will eventually stop. Then the next time you call, it will only take longer for them to respond to you since they know that all you want to do is complain to somebody. Do you really want to be known as the guy who cries wolf in case something seriously life threating happened at you residence?.....I personally would rather think (or hope) that the only time I need the authorities at my residence, it is something serious and they need to make double time.

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There's always the option of sitting on your front porch with a shotgun leaned up against the railing......after all, It's your property, right?

[deerslayer]

I think the stick in the road is a good idea.

[strickj]

Having the same problem on my street.

We got together,and signed a petition to get traffic circles put in.

They put these things in two streets over from me,and it not only cut down on traffic but slowed everybody down.

Calling the cops wont work. Whats more important to them? Responding to a crime in progress,or responding to a guy that was speeding 10 minutes ago!

[Guest Jason F.]

Tungsten, Just borrow my car for a few days and park it at the end of your drive way. If that does not work send Slipstream a PM on the other board and ask him to set you up with a the speed reduction device he offered to put in my car for me. PM me for details.

[Almond27]

Strickj I hate those circles they are installing them everywhere now it seems like at least in East Brainerd

[Mike.357]

nah

[TGO David]

What exactly is a "speed circle" ? I'm envisioning something like a speed bump but made up of circular bumps or something like that?

[TripleDigitRide]

What exactly is a "speed circle" ? I'm envisioning something like a speed bump but made up of circular bumps or something like that?

Hmmm.....It's like they dropped a 360 degree curb in the middle of the road. It's usually filled with grass, flowers, shrubs, or a sign. You've seen them before, I'm sure. They force you to slow down to maneuver around them.

They are kinda like miniature Town Squares.

That's the best I can do.

[TGO David]

Gotcha. Not sure our road would support that due to width requirements.

[strickj]

Well actually I meant they put in those mountain of speed bumps made out of rubber that makes you knock your head on the roof,but the traffic circles were put in up near the golf course down the road.

So I have both near me,and they both do work.

[strickj]

Strickj I hate those circles they are installing them everywhere now it seems like at least in East Brainerd

I dont mind circles all that much when they replace a red light.Like they did coming off of the dam.

[TripleDigitRide]

In reality, speed bumps/humps are likely going to be the only realistic option.

If you can get enough neighbors to complain as well, obviously your chances of getting something done would greatly increase.

I don't live in the Rutherford County area, but I'm there at least twice a week, and there seems to be no shortage of city and county LEO's driving around. You'd think this little stretch would be easy pickins for them.

[Guest m&pc9]

In my neighborhood they put out a newsletter to get tag numbers and call the sheriffs dept. Why? What can they do? How can you prove they were speeding?

Just imagine you sitting at home and a leo pulled up and wrote you a ticket and said Joe Blow said you were speeding on your way home. That would go over like a turd in a punch bowl at my house!

Although I came real close to the cement block one time. I was watching my daughter play on the driveway. We lived on a dead end st and this kid came flying down the st. I went running for the block but he came back to fast. So he just got the bird and a few choice words.

[EMTRN]

ask for an Officer to come out so you can do a Citizens Arrest if you know where one of the offending speeders lives. (be prepared to go to Court).

What are you planning on arresting them for? .................................FAIL

[TGO David]

I think I'm going to take a lesson from our dear friend Barack and do a little "community organizing" and see what I can accomplish. Today, speed bumps. Tomorrow, the White House.

[Guest coldblackwind]

I had that on my street when I first moved in, but they all went to the same house. I worked 2nd shift and got home after midnight everynight, so I started stopping at the end of the street in front of their house when I got home, and opening up my straight piped mustang gt in front of it at about midnight, then let off before I got to the rest of the street. Took about 3 nights of that and all of a sudden everyone was driving nice and slow, go figure.

[Guest db99wj]

[musicman]

Hey, Sgt. Andy Miller (over the traffic dept) of Smyrna PD has a life-size cardboard cut-out of him holding a radar gun. I think they got it last year. Anyway, I'm sure you've seen these in use before. Maybe a short-term solution (people figure it out and ignore them, eventually) while plans and funding are pulled together for speed bumps, etc.

I'll be happy to help with any kind of petition or whatever else I can, too.

[Guest emsputz]

If this happens at all in the daytime, sit outside, and when you hear one coming, roll a baseball out on the road. Maybe the driver will slam on the brakes thinking a kid is going to chase after it. You can always swear it was an accident.

[Guest flyfishtn]

I live in Green Hills in Nashville near Lipscomb and families driving to drop off their kids drive like crazy. I have found the best solution is calling Metro and telling them they need to come monitor the road. They do and over time it deters but you have to call repeatedly.

The proverbial squeaky wheel.

[BryanP]

Tungsten, based on your description I have to wonder if you're one of my neighbors.

You don't happen to live on Sanders Drive in Lavergne, do you?

It used to be a 20mph speed limit. My neighbors and I all took turns calling to complain about speeders. I think the cops got tired of us and now the speed limit is 30 with two stop signs that are ignored as often as not. Those that do stop like to peel out. As inconvenient as it would be, I wouldn't cry if they closed off one end entirely so that we weren't a shortcut anymore.