Why so much politics over a few speed bumps?
Village Council Member Felice Dubin met with Bridgeport Avenue and 30th Court neighbors about the ongoing traffic issues on their streets over the past couple of months. But not much got done. It's such a waste of time to keep talking about the issue. I was there the other day and sat in the middle of the street for quite awhile -- not one car or truck went by. So I guess just certain hours are when the problems occur.
Police Commander Martin was called in who checked into issues about trucks on Bridgeport. It is a commercial street embedded in a residential area. Gardner's Market was a problem because the back of their store is on Bridgeport, but they have been working with the neighbors to try and not block traffic (and not speed through).
Milam's is also taking corrective steps to have their delivery trucks avoid Bridgeport and 30th Avenue. Home Depot was at fault, too. But they are trying to avoid the streets as well.
The main issue is speeding trucks using the Bridgeport as a shortcut to and from US1. I asked Felice why they can't just put down some speed bumps. She said it isn't that easy. I told her jokingly that I will drop by in the middle of the night with cement in the back of my truck, I'll make a few short stops at either end of the street, the cement will fall out (hopefully in a straight line and a nice mound) and they will have speed bumps. Case closed.
But seriously, is it that hard to get a couple of stupid speed bumps? I don't understand why taxpayers need to beg for simple projects in their neighborhoods. For this small issue, the Village Council is involved, the police, the City the County. The street is one block long. What is the problem here?
I am told that many on Virginia Street don't want the traffic shifted from Bridgeport and 30th Court over to them, so they are part of the inaction on officials' parts. But I don't think speed bumps will shift traffic from Bridgeport and 30th Court, I think it will just slow it down. It's not a street closing, it's speed bumps. The ironic thing is that speed bumps are anywhere and everywhere that they shouldn't be. Why can't they be placed where they should be?
While all these political groups stall, a small child may be hurt, who is going to take the blame then for delaying the project?
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as per Marc Sarnoff's office speed bumps are not alowed because when people drive over them they make noise and then his office will receive noise complaints from the sped bumps. I never understood if this was a City or County rule or local Grove rule.
good one hahahaha
A few tall orange traffic cones would slow down traffic and not cost much.
Huh? No speedbumps? Couldn't find anything on municode to that effect.
To me, the best method to slow cars is the one that hits the driver's wallet. It's a seldom used device in Miami : traffic law enforcement.
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c'mon cause4concern, that would eat up too much time needed for other crime enforcement... such as the noise ordinance in a business district that's more restricting than in most residential districts of the city and state and code enforcement, which the city loves to use only in the grove in order to shut down those businesses that generate the funds that the city uses to operate.
Get it together man. What's next? Do you want the cops to stop the scam artists and other criminals too?
Hey, the police cant be everywhere.
That is why I see so many EMPTY,
parked, police cars. They certainly are not on foot patrol.
Actually, Miami must have 1000
police cars parked around and only 4 real live officers employed.
Think about it. A "virtual" police department.
Lots of budget excess!!!! Ha Ha.
Grapevine: We are a T-WAC. (Third World Administrated City).
Nothing gets done.
Imagine this: Traffic is heavy on your residential street, so you and most of the residents call the city to ask for speed bumps. A few days later, a crew comes out and installs the requested speed bumps. Traffic slows down and everybody is happy.
NO WAY.
That will never happen in Coconut Grove or anywhere else in the City of Miami.
Sorry.
They are called decoy cars. Or dummy cars. Not sure you pick the more appropriate version.
Speed bumps are mankinds most self defeating invention, and I really never support them, but since I never have been and hopefully never will be on this street, go ahead and do as you will.
Maybe sarnoff will put a big cirlce in the middle of your one block street?
From the sounds of the post though, it really sounds like the problem has been solved by talking to the local businesses about their deliveries.
How about getting one of these?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01290/zombie_1290011c.jpg
Speed bumps are a false sense of security. All they do is force traffic to slow down going over them. Motorists speed up between them and slow down going over. It's fake.
In addition, they slow emergency response considerably. Take a ride in a fire truck sometime going over speed bumps. Been on plenty of calls when the 911 caller asks, "what took you so long?" Uh, you have all these speed bumps between our house and yours.
I've lived on Bridgeport for almost a year now and this is the first I've seen/heard of any efforts to curb traffic on the street. I can say that the main issue I see is NOT trucks servicing businesses, but rather passenger cars using Bridgeport to cut through to go North on US1. They barrel down the street so fast that I've almost been hit multiple times while backing out of the driveway. I have not really noticed any problems during the daytime hours, but I see it almost every morning as I leave for work and in the evenings when I return. So the issue is not the amount of traffic on the street, but the SPEED of traffic. This can be logically and quickly resolved by adding speed bumps. I don't think this will push traffic onto other streets, but if it does and they speed down those streets, then the logical, quick resolution would be speed bumps there if/when it becomes necessary. It's sad to see people complicating issues more than necessary, and ultimately inhibiting progress.
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