View Full Version : Smart way to combat speeding
bst
Jul 15th, 2008, 09:33 PM
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/6133/11hi4.th.jpg (http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11hi4.jpg)
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/8346/22qu2.th.jpg (http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=22qu2.jpg)
Saw this on a Chinese website, a village in China wants to reduce people from speeding. Instead of a straight road, they built a S-curve concrete wall measured 30m in length, 0.6m high, and 2.7m long hoping people will slow down. FYI, a typical road width in Canada is at least 3.7m wide and the minimum clearing envelope for a truck is 3.0m!
xg3
Jul 15th, 2008, 09:36 PM
wont slow me down.. makes it more challenging thats all! haha.
JimG
Jul 15th, 2008, 09:40 PM
Would be cheaper to build excessivly high speed bumps (i.e. T&T Mississauga :mad: )
nalababe
Jul 15th, 2008, 10:17 PM
In residential areas in the Annex they have large blocks alternating the left and right side of the road...essentially the same thing.
Mattones
Jul 15th, 2008, 10:22 PM
haha thats take twice as long to drive through i bet.
Plus I can picture all the paint marks on the sides from bad drivers.
Jucius Maximus
Jul 15th, 2008, 10:32 PM
Would be cheaper to build excessivly high speed bumps (i.e. T&T Mississauga :mad: )
That can damage the cars of even slow drivers. I used to dive a camry and the muffler in that thing was naturally low. I could just barely clear the T&T Mississauga speedbumps, but other ones I simply had to avoid because there was NO way to avoid touching!
m4gician
Jul 15th, 2008, 10:47 PM
In residential areas in the Annex they have large blocks alternating the left and right side of the road...essentially the same thing.
They do...? Wow am I a good driver :) (not in the parts of the annex that I use, Huron, St. George, and Davenport).
Alvito
Jul 15th, 2008, 11:33 PM
haha thats take twice as long to drive through i bet.
Plus I can picture all the paint marks on the sides from bad drivers.
LOL cuz its in CHINA RIGHT? LOLOL
/racist.
mrlooneytoon
Jul 16th, 2008, 12:23 AM
It's ok, I'm a drift king. :idea:
dasaylay
Jul 16th, 2008, 01:42 AM
From the second pic you can see that the medium has been hit tonnes of times. Yes, must be the Chinese women...(not racist cause I'm Chinese):|
coconut_head
Jul 16th, 2008, 10:12 AM
So if somebody crashes in that lane, nobody can get into the village anymore since there's only one lane right?
ES_Revenge
Jul 16th, 2008, 11:51 AM
From the second pic you can see that the medium has been hit tonnes of times. Yes, must be the Chinese women...(not racist cause I'm Chinese):|
Yes but still sexist ;) :lol:
thelefteyeguy
Jul 16th, 2008, 11:56 AM
that only works if you dont care about providing emergency vehicles to that village
In Toronto speed bumps add time to ambulances
Zukered
Jul 16th, 2008, 04:46 PM
I'm sure clearing snow off those would be a hoot if we had those in most of Canada...
bobby5
Jul 16th, 2008, 07:02 PM
Pretty soon all protruding bits of the obstacles will get "worn down" by passing traffic, and the road is straight and clear again :)
B0000rt
Jul 16th, 2008, 07:39 PM
If they made it a bit wide, DORIFTOOOOOOOOOOO
BrianJai
Jul 17th, 2008, 12:54 AM
man i bet the person that desgined that road was pretty drunk or high, first of all 1 way? takes alot of money and time to build it a little higher ? if theres accidents or if an ambulance or fire truck needs to zip by, it would take extra time lol... why not jus add major speed bumps to prevent people from speeding -.-