Bumpingame - Part 3 Car..melita speed humps de-installed

Carmelita Ave. is a pretty important street for travel and as the Little BIg Dig gets closer it will become even more important as a way to get to California Dr. and avoid the congested Broadway blocks.  We tracked the unfortunate addition of 12 non-standard rubberized speed humps here and more here.  Twelve was overkill for sure and it looks like TSpoon and Public Works have come around to that thinking since four of the 12 have been taken out.  My least favorite set, about 30 yards from the California Dr. stop light, are still there, but there's progress.

The non-standard design is thoroughly uncomfortable to drive over and now we discover the bolt holes have to be filled before the road surface degrades further.  The DJ is reporting on our fiscal health:

A planned $9.9 million transfer to the capital improvement fund — which will focus on the city’s potable water system and sanitary sewers this year — plus more than $3 million for debt services, will leave Burlingame at a $2.7 million net operating deficit. 

I have no idea if speed humps are considered operating or capital expenses--one would think capital, until they start getting removed after a year in place.  Either way, it's just not a good use of city funds and this design ain't great for your suspension or spine either.  Here's the de-install.

And the bolt holes...got any epoxy?

Comments

[Just Sayin']

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-diy-speed-bumps-removed-20348199.php

At least we aren't Oakland yet.

Residents of Oakland’s Highland Terrace neighborhood say they are living in fear once again after the city abruptly removed dozens of community-installed speed bumps that they say had dramatically reduced late-night sideshows and reckless driving on East 21st Street and 19th Avenue.

The makeshift traffic-calming devices, installed by neighbors over the past year, had become a last-resort response to what they described as years of official inaction and a rise in vehicular chaos that often included gunfire, property damage and threats to residents.

[Jennifer Pfaff]

Maybe the Sideshow contingent threatened to sue the City of Oakland for allowing non-compliant speed bumps on City streets.

[MV]

Yup. Starting next week they’re removing the 8 remaining Carmelita speed bumps, and reinstalling them as longer speed bumps with an additional flat stop panel. The intent is to make them gentler than what was originally installed. We’ll see by the end of the week how they fare.

[Risky Business]

Hope the Risk Manager for Burlingame has measured this change carefully. Way too many blind spots on Eastside of Carmelita. I smell legal exposure.

[Mom]

If they enforced the new daylighting law it would go a long way to making the street safer without the bumps.