Secret to STOP SPEEDERS in Your Neighborhood Forever

Here is the research behind why inconsiderate jerks fly 50 MPH down past house -- and how you can fight back to win.

[johnnysecular]

i was a little kid sitting in the back and i remember my dad saying in frustration “look they built me a runway and put a speed limit on it”

[aigk]

Retired law enforcement here. What you are referring to is traffic calming. You are 100% right. The more comfortable we are on a road the faster we will go. When I was working, people would say that after their street was paved, speeding increased on the street. One final note: when folks complained and said we needed to run radar on the street, usually at least one of the people who did the loudest complaining ended up getting a speeding ticket! Funny how that works out.

[bow-tiedengineer]

Dedicated speed bumps aren't great, but my favorite traffic calming technique is to have raised crosswalks. Sure, drivers might floor it right after each cross walk, but you can be sure they aren't going to speed on the crosswalk if the crosswalk is raised up to sidewalk level. It makes it more comfortable for pedestrians while forcefully slowing down through traffic.

[christopherhiggins]

That road is so wide, Stevie Wonder could safely navigate it.

[dthoughts]

My town solved the speed issue on neighborhood streets by not performing maintenance and allowing potholes to form that you could lose a Vespa in.
Lol

[TheNewGreenIsBlue]

The only thing I'd change is to have the bike lane on the INSIDE, close to the sidewalk, with a small curb separating it from the parked cars. Parked cars do a much better job at "narrowing" the street and slowing the cars down than a cycling lane that doesn't have any stationary objects on it. Also, this greatly reduces "dooring" incidents.

[idkwuisp]

You're supposed to go 25 mph on what is literally the width of a six lane highway... of course it feels extremely frustrating to drive so slowly!

[jamesbottomley]

Here in the UK, most of our streets are narrow but the drivers still speed like deranged lemmings on suicide missions. Go figure.

[theeddorian]

One historical note. City street width in the 19th century, planned cities in the US were often laid out with the expectation that horse draw wagons with teams of several horse - I don't recall the number, and it might vary from city to city - could turn around. That is a greater turn radius than most common modern vehicles. In suburban areas, developers went for narrower streets that increased the number of lots they could sell. Utah has easily some of the widest streets I have ever seen.

[xsiunnu]

"Slow children playing"

You're NOT supposed to call those kids slow!!! It's just not nice!

[laxfan]

As someone living in NYC and driving big trucks...I'd kill for 82 foot wide streets...

[Christian-Rankin]

I recently became fascinated with speed limits and, being the filthy speeder I am, I think your ground-up view of diagnosing human nature and building around that is logical.

You can't simply tell water what speed to flow, you have to engineer it.

[rogerwilco]

It also has another big side effect: It costs much more to build and especially to maintain.

[blue_thumb]

I'd like to see this guy play Cities Skylines and run a traffic jam scenario.

[justanotheryoutubechannel]

It’s amazing how much of an impact street design has on streets, I live in England and I’m learning to drive, and most of the streets around here are 30mph roads that feel safe at 25mph. If you did 60 on a lot of streets here, you’d be killed or kill someone else, if you did 40 you’d probably crash into something. There’s bends, narrow parts, and trees often, and that’s just in the non-traffic calmed neighbourhoods. There’s a neighborhood near me with traffic calming everywhere, most streets are 20mph zones that don’t feel comfortable at anything above 20, and all the remaining 30 zones are scary to drive through above 20, there’s chicanes, bumps, road narrowing, markings everywhere to confuse you and lots of corners. They’re design to keep you alert, while still allowing 30 to be possible technically, it’s tiring to drive on but safe and quite impressive.

[dakerbal]

That 'narrow' road that you showed is bigger than the widest lane I've ever seen here in Europe.

[bobmorey]

I was once told that Mormons liked wide streets in their settlements, so as to be able to turn a wagon and full team of horses (without backing up, of course.)

[Metroshica]

As someone who lived in Provo and Spanish Fork during school, I absolutely LOVED this video. The best part is I could completely understand the feelings you get on different roads since I knew all of these ones! Spanish Fork has those same massive roads like Springville. I'm from the east coast but Utah really impressed me with their recent traffic designs when I was there. I drove on the DDI in American Fork right after it opened and it was definitely a weird feeling. Thanks so much for this video, it was a lot of fun to watch.

[KaiHenningsen]

RGR: describes a street as narrow
Me, European: sees street: "Man, this is wide"

[McIntec]

Can you imagine a cop pulling him over for going in circles on the road? "Sorry Officer, I was just making a video to show the street road is too wide...." 😂