In the article is a quote from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety indicating the decrease in fatalities as a result of "roundabouts". The specificatioins for "roundabouts" is NOT what is being installed on our streets - they are called "traffic calmers" since the streets are too NARROW to construct a proper "roundabout". The Bungalow neighborhood "spokesman" indicates 1000 flyers were sent out - to who? Not myself or my neighbors - none of us ever received any flyer or any mailing concerning VOTING for or against any traffic calmers (we live on Grand, Micheltorena, Jimeno). None of my neighbors EVER received a poll where we could vote for or against these devices. If the fire trucks "supposedly" approved the "calmers", because they can drive over them - where would the landscaping and curbing occur? If the number of speeders decreased statistically, how about the number of cars now traveling down those streets since the construction of the "calmers"? I no longer travel down those streets because of them, and I know my neighbors avoid those streets also. We all believe these devices are inefficient, and dangerous - especially to pedestrians and bicyclists, and are inapropriate for our historical neighborhood.
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Posted on June 11 at 11:47 a.m.
In the article is a quote from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety indicating the decrease in fatalities as a result of "roundabouts". The specificatioins for "roundabouts" is NOT what is being installed on our streets - they are called "traffic calmers" since the streets are too NARROW to construct a proper "roundabout". The Bungalow neighborhood "spokesman" indicates 1000 flyers were sent out - to who? Not myself or my neighbors - none of us ever received any flyer or any mailing concerning VOTING for or against any traffic calmers (we live on Grand, Micheltorena, Jimeno). None of my neighbors EVER received a poll where we could vote for or against these devices. If the fire trucks "supposedly" approved the "calmers", because they can drive over them - where would the landscaping and curbing occur? If the number of speeders decreased statistically, how about the number of cars now traveling down those streets since the construction of the "calmers"? I no longer travel down those streets because of them, and I know my neighbors avoid those streets also. We all believe these devices are inefficient, and dangerous - especially to pedestrians and bicyclists, and are inapropriate for our historical neighborhood.
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