Neal Harrington in the news

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:46 pm

Vincent Keene wrote:

Steven Carter wrote:

I understand why people don't like them....so Move them to my street.

I'd like to take ALL of them to your street. So many in fact your street would look like a wash board.

My solution would be to teach the children not to play in the street. Getting hit by a car hurts, ask me how I know.

Luckliy I live in a one-street subdivision in the county, so I doubt we will be getting any of these things.

They don't play in the street, They do have to cross the street, you know---to go to school--and in so doing it is reasonable to expect drivers to obey the speed limit.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:49 pm

Steven Carter wrote:

They don't play in the street, They do have to cross the street, you know---to go to school--and in so doing it is reasonable to expect drivers to obey the speed limit.

Walking kids? Do those still exist? You won't find any of those where I live. I swear the buses stop at every 5th house so none of them will, you know---have to walk.

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:45 pm

your so anti-kid you prob speed up to hit them!!!! :stick:

Vincent Keene wrote:

Steven Carter wrote:

They don't play in the street, They do have to cross the street, you know---to go to school--and in so doing it is reasonable to expect drivers to obey the speed limit.

Walking kids? Do those still exist? You won't find any of those where I live. I swear the buses stop at every 5th house so none of them will, you know---have to walk.

clinehall · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:47 pm

Vincent Keene wrote:

Steven Carter wrote:

I understand why people don't like them....so Move them to my street.

I'd like to take ALL of them to your street. So many in fact your street would look like a wash board.

My solution would be to teach the children not to play in the street. .

I think I am starting to believe in reincarnation :evil:

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:53 pm

My subdivision is right next to the elementary school my son will go to. He could walk through the woods (about 200 feet) to get to the back of the school. - AB

steve remchak · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:28 pm

School buses speed worse than most soccer moms.

I typically just ease the F350 into the oncoming lane when I see speeding neighbors coming toward me. The teenagers just blaze thru the grass, the ones that slow down get an azz chewing.

Neal Harrington · **Joined:** Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:29 pm **Posts:** 106

Since my activities started this discussion, let me pontificate. The City of Raleigh has a very explicit set of rules for installing humps. One of them, which was violated in the case of Northbrook Drive, is that streets with traffic volumes greater than 4,000 / day may not be considered for speed humps. Their own count was 4,120, but some dumb turd had them installed anyway! That is what I've been fighting. They are also wildly too high to meet their own specs, so I can't get to Six Forks in my Fiero without detouring for an extra 5 minutes or so.

RobLupella · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:15 pm

I generally hate them too. I don't think they slow people down. There are some people in my neighborhood that I'd like to beat with a asphalt tamper. One of them ran into my mailbox last year and through the SOLID CONCRETE post it was on 20' through a fence rail. Imagine if there had been kids playing in the yard.

Then when I left a note in her box asking her to call me to discuss repayment and that I would call the cops if she didn't she got mad when I actually did it.

Good Luck Neil

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

Neal Harrington wrote:

I can't get to Six Forks in my Fiero without detouring for an extra 5 minutes or so.

Have you considered prepping the Fiero for rallycross? That would solve your clearance issue. :lol:

Chuck Branscomb · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:35 am

RobLupella wrote:

I generally hate them too. I don't think they slow people down. There are some people in my neighborhood that I'd like to beat with a asphalt tamper. One of them ran into my mailbox last year and through the SOLID CONCRETE post it was on 20' through a fence rail. Imagine if there had been kids playing in the yard.

Then when I left a note in her box asking her to call me to discuss repayment and that I would call the cops if she didn't she got mad when I actually did it.

Good Luck Neil

Rob how dare you expect someone to live up to their responsibilities! This is 2013 man, what gives?

Seriously, good luck Neal, and don't let up.

Brett_Murphy · **Joined:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:02 pm **Posts:** 355

The speed humps in Brentwood are hilarious, mainly because it looks like the people who put them in didn't account for any kind of slope in the road, so you can have a gradual hump on the uphill side of the hump and a cliff on the downhill side of the slope.

We have some short speed bumps in the parking garage where I work. They are made out of some kind of rubber material, and they are not very tall. However, the design is such that if you hit them going more than about 10 MPH, it really jolts you. They make me giggle.

These speed humps (they don't show up very well in 2D) are tall as heck and really slow everybody down, but nobody is ever in any danger of going high center unless they are in a lowrider.

http://goo.gl/maps/MyzqG

Zach Hill · **Posted:** Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:41 am

The problem with speed humps/bumps is the speed at which they can be crossed varies greatly by car. In my S2k on 800# springs and 3" ground clearance, I have to slow to a crawl and go across them at an angle. People in big SUVs can and do cross them at 30+MPH and barely feel them.

Ideally, speeding through neighborhoods should somehow be more strictly enforced, but I'm not exactly sure how that could be accomplished. On our street, a few people regularly go 40MPH, even though we have pets roaming around and flocks of kids regularly playing IN the street. And no, it's not the loud race cars from my house that do this (despite my going 10-15MPH, they still stare begrudgingly as I drive by with the exhaust turndown), it's the Corolla and CR-V a few houses down. I hope the inevitable accident with a pet or child doesn't actually happen.
:soap:

Jordan Normark · **Posted:** Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:57 am

Neal continues the good fight.

http://www.midtownraleighnews.com/2013/ ... speed.html

I admire your tenacity in dealing with the city. At a minimum, I hope you get a response out of them. "Is the city of Raleigh so stupid they can't follow their own rules?" LOL!

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:19 am

Give 'em hell Mr. Neil!

Les Davis · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:04 pm **Posts:** 2059

Zach Hill wrote:

The problem with speed humps/bumps is the speed at which they can be crossed varies greatly by car. In my S2k on 800# springs and 3" ground clearance, I have to slow to a crawl and go across them at an angle. People in big SUVs can and do cross them at 30+MPH and barely feel them.

I agree and disagree with this, I happen to own a big ass SUV and a sports car with 1150# springs and a couple in between. The Miata on stock suspension actually navigates the speed humps the easiest at speed, the Navigator takes a little more care, I think it is a mass thing, the Navigator having so much of it is quite jarring when driven over speed humps and I have to slow down more than the Miata. I have willingly modified the vette to make it more of a race car than a street car and don't expect to be catered to because that was my choice. The one that bothers me is the Cobra on stock suspension, if you install a speed bump that I cannot navigate in a stock suspended Mustang, a remarkably common car, without scrapping my subframe, even when going 1 mph and taking it at an angle, you have gone too far.

Let me clarify though, in Les Davis' perfect world, there would be no speed bumps or humps. I don't believe they effectively accomplish what they are intended to accomplish for the most part and the response, like most every other failed attempt at controlling human behavior, is to go more and more extremes. These extremes rarely achieve the positive results intended and just create big inconveniences at best for most and sometimes huge injustices for others.

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