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At the time of this writing, the article Sleeping policeman contains the following text:
This took five edits. This has got to be some low-productivity record.
(Just to make sure, I am not mocking the good men and women who took the time to edit this article, including the removal of a vandalism. I am mocking the world in general. The world, you see, can't hit me.) - Itai 19:18, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
YouTube isn't considered an acceptable source, but a video on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg79_mM2CNY shows the result of a lambo hitting a poorly unmarked speedbump at high speed.
It seems like this is a specific example of traffic_calming, or at least relates to that also and should get a link of some kind. -- M0llusk 03:56, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
When I go to Jellystone Park (one of the real Jellystone Parks) with my aunt, I get in a golf cart with her, and she floors the accelerator and drives over every pothole and bump, including speed bumps, to make a really bumpy ride. When one of the park workers or the other members of my family are near, she acts like she's driving normally. It's really, really fun, no sarcasm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CE62:8430:D00E:2F84:5383:9D31 ( talk) 18:25, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
I find both theories of the speed bumps first use unlikely to be true progenitors to the speed bumps we know now. They may have been used independently in both the instances which are covered by the anecdotes, but I fail to see a clear connexion between either of them, and modern traffic control. For what it is worth, the first occurences of the term "speed bump" that the OED records, are from the latter half of the 1970's. -- Cimon avaro; on a pogostick. 17:36, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to remove (again) the following section from the article and would like to consider it here:
The arguments that are being presented here are common to anti-traffic calming groups . The facts quoted here are selective. I understand that one of our Wikipedians did have an accident at a speed hump, but that is original research :-). However looking in traffic engineering material I find that speed humps are tricky to negotiate for bicyclists and motorcyclists (due to the short wheelbase and having only two wheels), but not that they cause accidents. On balance bicyclists will be safer in a traffic calmed area due to lower vehicle speeds. The only conflict a bicyclist has with traffic calming is with roundabouts which create squeeze points where the bicyclist is forced into the stream of traffic. A similar argument of reduced injuries overall to the community applies to traffic calming. To get decent articles for Wikipedia you need to not just google out "facts" but need to consult books in libraries. Softgrow 20:24, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
This may count as "original research" but I figure from lifetime experience (I am now age 62 as of Feb 8 of 2006) driving in USA (since age 14), I have NEVER seen a poorly designed speed bump, and I see them, or drive over them, every day for decades, I figure there has to be a standard some place that is well followed.
Now I often see another kind of thing that I think is poorly designed. There is a concrete block placed at the ends of parking spaces, intended for auto tires to be stopped at, but many vehicles have different elevations between street and bottom, leading to bottom of end of car often scraping on them, their ends can cause tires to be punctured.
Another poorly designed reality is where driveways from commercial areas leave elevation associated with sidewalk and regular roadway. I always take them slowly, I often scrape bottom of car when transitioning them. User:AlMac| (talk) 12:02, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I know of a woman who came off her bike on 4th September in Bromley, close to where I live. The hump was camoflaged by the dappled shade of a tree. The broke her jaw in three places and spent several days in hospital. Her name is Anja Szkodowski. London borough of Bromley stopped laying new speed humps three years ago even though they can get the cost substantially covered by the greater London authority. In Bromley, they became an election liability. London borough of Brent are removing them. London borough of Lewisham and Greenwich are installing them.
London borough of Bromley have instead started to use speed reminders. They actually show what speed you are travelling, and using pedestrian refuges and build-outs with trees planted in them. I understand that they have proven extremely cheap and effective at reducing speed and improving road safety. -- Nick R Hill 23:03, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Methinks this is made up... I find no mention of the name Edgar Rothkrug anywhere, that added paragraph is kinda weird in general... [ Patent Search for Inventor "Rothkrug"]
I would like to discusss here the inclusion or deletion of this link. The following bits of Wikipedia Policy would appear to be relevant
and of course
Hello Softgrow The web site is part of a campaign to encourage discussion of road humps and similar measures in general. Not just in London, or in Catford. As you have rightly pointed out, the web site is fairly new, but has already attracted many members and support as an important resource. In fact, it is being published as a flagship piece in a local paper next week.
The web site includes links to many resources, including the wikipedia articles on road bumps and "traffic calming" which you also closely watch. So it is neither commercial, or a black hole, or POV.
You may find my environmental position is at least as green as yours. I have just turned down an offer of a free flight and boarding in Boston as I am concerned about the unnecessary environmental footprint encouragement of flying causes. I am in favour of limits to drilling and mining fossil fuels. I am anti nuclear, andt-war, I use a bicycle. My light bulbs are compact flourescent, my boiler (furnace) is condensing.
Myself and other people involved in the site project (both for and against humps) are collecting data from real safety and pollution experiences in London and elsewhere to help compensate for the very poor balance of public information.
I am not against local zones where cars are either shut out, or speeding is discouraged or made impossible. I am strongly against the type of one-sidedness and lack of consultation of the relatively new London Mayor. I am in favour of public discourse about issues such as humps and "Traffic Calming". My opinion is that the term "Traffic Calming" is in itself POV. However, I am not silencing anyone from using it. I am concerned about data from the ambulance service casting doubt on the safety of humps, I am concerned about drivers choosing larger vehicles to reduce the effect of humps. These are issues of great public importance and need to be discussed. If not on my site, then on the wikipedia pages. There are many options for speed control apart from humps, these should be discussed. I don't think you are doing the public or the green movement any favours by supressing this.
Softgrow, if you would like to join the discussion and have positive points to make, or counter any arguments given in the discussion section of the web site, you are most welcome. After all, it is an open discussion forum. -- Nick R Hill 22:41, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I was the one who found and quoted the two NYT stories regarding the Chatham, NJ speed bumps. Mareino removed the quote from the second article, presumably because s/he could not find the story. Please check again -- it is titled "Bumps" Check Autos, and can be found on p. 20 of the 4/24/1906 Times. I think the excerpt deserves to be restored because it describes the animated reactions of drivers and onlookers to this never-before-seen device. -- MikeMiscione 08:24, 8 January 2006 (UTC)Mike Miscione.
Shouldn't the other uses section be in a disambiguation page? Where it is right now, no person who is not specifically interested in the roadway meaning of speed hump would see the other uses. Nova SS 18:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I've removed the following two paragraphs which lack any sources and would fall foul of the WP:NPOV policy. If they are to be included they must be statements from a reputable source, not just anonymous criticism or thought of an individual editor.
Softgrow 11:31, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
I've removed the above as it has remained anonymous for some time without any movement to actually name the critics. Alex Sims 05:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't Raised Crosswalks be explicitly described as a variant of the speed bump? Seanxr 15:25, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
I've just come across three articles (with a more North American focus) that cover very similar ground to speed bump:
It appears as though much of the content in this article belongs there or alternatively a main "Vertical deflection device used on roadways used to reduce speed" article is needed to make them all linked. Alex Sims 05:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I think a merger is a very good idea. I suggest a single article with discusses them all generally, has a table that lists their sizes and other differences concisely, has a section on their relative benefits, and with (most) photos in a gallery at the end. I think a section on each type is unnecessary; the purpose of a merger would be to more easily show their similarities and differences and cut back on repetition, which separate sections would do. I'll add various merger tags later today unless anyone complains madly before I get to it. — Felix the Cassowary 06:42, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
We need to review this article thoroughly to make sure that it is specifically regarding speed bump and not speed humps or speed tables, or speed cushions. Some comparing and contrasting is OK, but there are several portions within this article which I suspect is not particularly relevant to speed bumps. I'll try and review this whenever I get a chance, but I wouldn't mind if others beat me to it. Of course, this bars any further decision on the above merge recommendation. Sláinte! -- Bossi ( talk ;; contribs) 22:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Alex Sims and IP users: take your bickering here, please, and stop with the reversions. Now as far as the info being added by the IPs is concerned, I only request that the information be cleaned up (spelling, grammar, punctuation... it's horrid!), relocated out of the intro and into the appropriate sections, and its sentences combined to form more coherent paragraphs. I'll stay out of the whole is it POV or not issue -- that's for you all to discuss here. -- Bossi ( talk • gallery • contrib) 22:42, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Why does this section exist, as is, seeing as none of the "traffic calming" variants listed are actually what amounts to a "speed bump"? - - Freedom4all ( talk) 18:02, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
The article as currently written seems to be primarily about why speed bumps are bad for you, your car, and Mother Teresa, and then proposes a "solution" available for a reasonable price at a dealer near you! 150.148.0.27 ( talk) 22:31, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
In the "possible advances" section, there is a claim of a young schoolboy inventing an electricity-generating speed bump with a reference to "islamonline.net". The whole section looks somewhat suspicious to me - I've googled for the inventor name and the only two results shown is an article in islamonline.net (no results from other websites) and this wikipedia article. Another thing that makes be doubt of accuracy and relevance of info in this section, is that almost two months earlier there was an announcement(cited by numerous news sites) of a similar system for which the working prototype is already under implementation. I think this passage is a kind of original research and show be removed. What do you think? -- Zigmar ( talk) 10:40, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Anyone care to put an etymological source for the "sleeping policeman" term? Bennylin ( talk) 11:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
It's not at all clear what the difference is between these two things. Both articles cover the same information, more or less. The "speed hump" article contains a section that describes the supposed difference between the two, but it's pretty obvious from both articles that nobody really knows nor understands these terms with that distinction in mind. In other words, the section tries to pick apart two words that are, in most people's understanding, synonyms. CodeCat ( talk) 21:34, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
At risk of upsetting what I'm sure was a very contentiously-arrived-at compromise, I feel the need to point out that the name "Vertical deflection traffic calming device" enjoys a currency in popular use effectively indistinguishable from non-existence.
This is an article on various kinds of speed bumps. Call it that, or be preposterous. 174.89.175.59 ( talk) 16:49, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. Andrewa ( talk) 03:07, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Vertical deflection traffic calming device → Speed bump – Last year, after some discussion, a consensus was reached to merge four closely related articles - speed bump, speed hump, speed cushion, and speed table - because they are basically variations on a theme, and there was virtually complete overlap in discussions of their usage, composition, and drawbacks. I chose to name the merged article "vertical deflection traffic calming device" because that title is technically accurate and captures the field of various sizes of bumps put on the road to control traffic speeds. The name has drawn some complaints, and I admit that it is cumbersome and unintuitive. I therefore would like to gauge the opinion of the community on whether "speed bump" is a better title to cover the field. bd2412 T 14:44, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
This is strangely the opposite of NIMBY. A really interesting issue with these, and speed limits in general, is that pretty much everybody...
Thus the devices are undesirable, but it's always the locals who are in control. The devices would go away if we could come to some sort of agreement: you get rid of yours, and I'll get rid of mine.
I'm not sure to call this. Surely it has a name, like NIMBY and Tragedy of the Commons. (maybe "Yes In My Backyard") The article ought to say something about this issue, using whatever term is standard.
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YIMBY! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.115.35.196 ( talk) 06:56, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
I don't want them near my house. I don't want them anywhere. I hate them passionately. John2o2o2o ( talk) 07:21, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Obviously, there's a lot of trouble over the years with this article.
The North American and British systems of traffic management, although contemporaneous, have basic differences that range from speed measurement to sizes of vehicle to what side of the road is used (at right). These differences cause difficulties in the article and, though factual, interrupt the flow and cause several redundancies. For example, the discussion of the disadvantages of speed bumps lists a North American example and then a British example where most of the same points are repeated. When you combine that repetition with the subsequent discussion on speed humps (...do I have to say it?), the repetition only gets worse. Last, we have a section that, out of the blue, brings in the UK.
I suggest simplifying the article to address the topic from a generalized format describing speed bumps, speed humps, and speed tables, and their key differences in a short paragraph and then bring in national or continental terminologies (sleeping policemen, etc.). Criticisms are worthy of their own section with a surmised list of critical points against the different options. It really doesn't have to be as painful as the present revision, does it? -- Srwalden ( talk) 05:40, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
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The history section jumps from before 1910 to Compton. It seems to say the speed bump was invented in the beginning of the century and then it was invented later. This is at best confusing. 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:1D92:A114:182A:877B ( talk) 21:47, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
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At the time of this writing, the article Sleeping policeman contains the following text:
This took five edits. This has got to be some low-productivity record.
(Just to make sure, I am not mocking the good men and women who took the time to edit this article, including the removal of a vandalism. I am mocking the world in general. The world, you see, can't hit me.) - Itai 19:18, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
YouTube isn't considered an acceptable source, but a video on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg79_mM2CNY shows the result of a lambo hitting a poorly unmarked speedbump at high speed.
It seems like this is a specific example of traffic_calming, or at least relates to that also and should get a link of some kind. -- M0llusk 03:56, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
When I go to Jellystone Park (one of the real Jellystone Parks) with my aunt, I get in a golf cart with her, and she floors the accelerator and drives over every pothole and bump, including speed bumps, to make a really bumpy ride. When one of the park workers or the other members of my family are near, she acts like she's driving normally. It's really, really fun, no sarcasm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CE62:8430:D00E:2F84:5383:9D31 ( talk) 18:25, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
I find both theories of the speed bumps first use unlikely to be true progenitors to the speed bumps we know now. They may have been used independently in both the instances which are covered by the anecdotes, but I fail to see a clear connexion between either of them, and modern traffic control. For what it is worth, the first occurences of the term "speed bump" that the OED records, are from the latter half of the 1970's. -- Cimon avaro; on a pogostick. 17:36, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to remove (again) the following section from the article and would like to consider it here:
The arguments that are being presented here are common to anti-traffic calming groups . The facts quoted here are selective. I understand that one of our Wikipedians did have an accident at a speed hump, but that is original research :-). However looking in traffic engineering material I find that speed humps are tricky to negotiate for bicyclists and motorcyclists (due to the short wheelbase and having only two wheels), but not that they cause accidents. On balance bicyclists will be safer in a traffic calmed area due to lower vehicle speeds. The only conflict a bicyclist has with traffic calming is with roundabouts which create squeeze points where the bicyclist is forced into the stream of traffic. A similar argument of reduced injuries overall to the community applies to traffic calming. To get decent articles for Wikipedia you need to not just google out "facts" but need to consult books in libraries. Softgrow 20:24, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
This may count as "original research" but I figure from lifetime experience (I am now age 62 as of Feb 8 of 2006) driving in USA (since age 14), I have NEVER seen a poorly designed speed bump, and I see them, or drive over them, every day for decades, I figure there has to be a standard some place that is well followed.
Now I often see another kind of thing that I think is poorly designed. There is a concrete block placed at the ends of parking spaces, intended for auto tires to be stopped at, but many vehicles have different elevations between street and bottom, leading to bottom of end of car often scraping on them, their ends can cause tires to be punctured.
Another poorly designed reality is where driveways from commercial areas leave elevation associated with sidewalk and regular roadway. I always take them slowly, I often scrape bottom of car when transitioning them. User:AlMac| (talk) 12:02, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I know of a woman who came off her bike on 4th September in Bromley, close to where I live. The hump was camoflaged by the dappled shade of a tree. The broke her jaw in three places and spent several days in hospital. Her name is Anja Szkodowski. London borough of Bromley stopped laying new speed humps three years ago even though they can get the cost substantially covered by the greater London authority. In Bromley, they became an election liability. London borough of Brent are removing them. London borough of Lewisham and Greenwich are installing them.
London borough of Bromley have instead started to use speed reminders. They actually show what speed you are travelling, and using pedestrian refuges and build-outs with trees planted in them. I understand that they have proven extremely cheap and effective at reducing speed and improving road safety. -- Nick R Hill 23:03, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Methinks this is made up... I find no mention of the name Edgar Rothkrug anywhere, that added paragraph is kinda weird in general... [ Patent Search for Inventor "Rothkrug"]
I would like to discusss here the inclusion or deletion of this link. The following bits of Wikipedia Policy would appear to be relevant
and of course
Hello Softgrow The web site is part of a campaign to encourage discussion of road humps and similar measures in general. Not just in London, or in Catford. As you have rightly pointed out, the web site is fairly new, but has already attracted many members and support as an important resource. In fact, it is being published as a flagship piece in a local paper next week.
The web site includes links to many resources, including the wikipedia articles on road bumps and "traffic calming" which you also closely watch. So it is neither commercial, or a black hole, or POV.
You may find my environmental position is at least as green as yours. I have just turned down an offer of a free flight and boarding in Boston as I am concerned about the unnecessary environmental footprint encouragement of flying causes. I am in favour of limits to drilling and mining fossil fuels. I am anti nuclear, andt-war, I use a bicycle. My light bulbs are compact flourescent, my boiler (furnace) is condensing.
Myself and other people involved in the site project (both for and against humps) are collecting data from real safety and pollution experiences in London and elsewhere to help compensate for the very poor balance of public information.
I am not against local zones where cars are either shut out, or speeding is discouraged or made impossible. I am strongly against the type of one-sidedness and lack of consultation of the relatively new London Mayor. I am in favour of public discourse about issues such as humps and "Traffic Calming". My opinion is that the term "Traffic Calming" is in itself POV. However, I am not silencing anyone from using it. I am concerned about data from the ambulance service casting doubt on the safety of humps, I am concerned about drivers choosing larger vehicles to reduce the effect of humps. These are issues of great public importance and need to be discussed. If not on my site, then on the wikipedia pages. There are many options for speed control apart from humps, these should be discussed. I don't think you are doing the public or the green movement any favours by supressing this.
Softgrow, if you would like to join the discussion and have positive points to make, or counter any arguments given in the discussion section of the web site, you are most welcome. After all, it is an open discussion forum. -- Nick R Hill 22:41, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I was the one who found and quoted the two NYT stories regarding the Chatham, NJ speed bumps. Mareino removed the quote from the second article, presumably because s/he could not find the story. Please check again -- it is titled "Bumps" Check Autos, and can be found on p. 20 of the 4/24/1906 Times. I think the excerpt deserves to be restored because it describes the animated reactions of drivers and onlookers to this never-before-seen device. -- MikeMiscione 08:24, 8 January 2006 (UTC)Mike Miscione.
Shouldn't the other uses section be in a disambiguation page? Where it is right now, no person who is not specifically interested in the roadway meaning of speed hump would see the other uses. Nova SS 18:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I've removed the following two paragraphs which lack any sources and would fall foul of the WP:NPOV policy. If they are to be included they must be statements from a reputable source, not just anonymous criticism or thought of an individual editor.
Softgrow 11:31, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
I've removed the above as it has remained anonymous for some time without any movement to actually name the critics. Alex Sims 05:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't Raised Crosswalks be explicitly described as a variant of the speed bump? Seanxr 15:25, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
I've just come across three articles (with a more North American focus) that cover very similar ground to speed bump:
It appears as though much of the content in this article belongs there or alternatively a main "Vertical deflection device used on roadways used to reduce speed" article is needed to make them all linked. Alex Sims 05:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I think a merger is a very good idea. I suggest a single article with discusses them all generally, has a table that lists their sizes and other differences concisely, has a section on their relative benefits, and with (most) photos in a gallery at the end. I think a section on each type is unnecessary; the purpose of a merger would be to more easily show their similarities and differences and cut back on repetition, which separate sections would do. I'll add various merger tags later today unless anyone complains madly before I get to it. — Felix the Cassowary 06:42, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
We need to review this article thoroughly to make sure that it is specifically regarding speed bump and not speed humps or speed tables, or speed cushions. Some comparing and contrasting is OK, but there are several portions within this article which I suspect is not particularly relevant to speed bumps. I'll try and review this whenever I get a chance, but I wouldn't mind if others beat me to it. Of course, this bars any further decision on the above merge recommendation. Sláinte! -- Bossi ( talk ;; contribs) 22:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Alex Sims and IP users: take your bickering here, please, and stop with the reversions. Now as far as the info being added by the IPs is concerned, I only request that the information be cleaned up (spelling, grammar, punctuation... it's horrid!), relocated out of the intro and into the appropriate sections, and its sentences combined to form more coherent paragraphs. I'll stay out of the whole is it POV or not issue -- that's for you all to discuss here. -- Bossi ( talk • gallery • contrib) 22:42, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Why does this section exist, as is, seeing as none of the "traffic calming" variants listed are actually what amounts to a "speed bump"? - - Freedom4all ( talk) 18:02, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
The article as currently written seems to be primarily about why speed bumps are bad for you, your car, and Mother Teresa, and then proposes a "solution" available for a reasonable price at a dealer near you! 150.148.0.27 ( talk) 22:31, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
In the "possible advances" section, there is a claim of a young schoolboy inventing an electricity-generating speed bump with a reference to "islamonline.net". The whole section looks somewhat suspicious to me - I've googled for the inventor name and the only two results shown is an article in islamonline.net (no results from other websites) and this wikipedia article. Another thing that makes be doubt of accuracy and relevance of info in this section, is that almost two months earlier there was an announcement(cited by numerous news sites) of a similar system for which the working prototype is already under implementation. I think this passage is a kind of original research and show be removed. What do you think? -- Zigmar ( talk) 10:40, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Anyone care to put an etymological source for the "sleeping policeman" term? Bennylin ( talk) 11:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
It's not at all clear what the difference is between these two things. Both articles cover the same information, more or less. The "speed hump" article contains a section that describes the supposed difference between the two, but it's pretty obvious from both articles that nobody really knows nor understands these terms with that distinction in mind. In other words, the section tries to pick apart two words that are, in most people's understanding, synonyms. CodeCat ( talk) 21:34, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
At risk of upsetting what I'm sure was a very contentiously-arrived-at compromise, I feel the need to point out that the name "Vertical deflection traffic calming device" enjoys a currency in popular use effectively indistinguishable from non-existence.
This is an article on various kinds of speed bumps. Call it that, or be preposterous. 174.89.175.59 ( talk) 16:49, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. Andrewa ( talk) 03:07, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Vertical deflection traffic calming device → Speed bump – Last year, after some discussion, a consensus was reached to merge four closely related articles - speed bump, speed hump, speed cushion, and speed table - because they are basically variations on a theme, and there was virtually complete overlap in discussions of their usage, composition, and drawbacks. I chose to name the merged article "vertical deflection traffic calming device" because that title is technically accurate and captures the field of various sizes of bumps put on the road to control traffic speeds. The name has drawn some complaints, and I admit that it is cumbersome and unintuitive. I therefore would like to gauge the opinion of the community on whether "speed bump" is a better title to cover the field. bd2412 T 14:44, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
This is strangely the opposite of NIMBY. A really interesting issue with these, and speed limits in general, is that pretty much everybody...
Thus the devices are undesirable, but it's always the locals who are in control. The devices would go away if we could come to some sort of agreement: you get rid of yours, and I'll get rid of mine.
I'm not sure to call this. Surely it has a name, like NIMBY and Tragedy of the Commons. (maybe "Yes In My Backyard") The article ought to say something about this issue, using whatever term is standard.
50.89.71.42 ( talk) 03:00, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
YIMBY! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.115.35.196 ( talk) 06:56, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
I don't want them near my house. I don't want them anywhere. I hate them passionately. John2o2o2o ( talk) 07:21, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Obviously, there's a lot of trouble over the years with this article.
The North American and British systems of traffic management, although contemporaneous, have basic differences that range from speed measurement to sizes of vehicle to what side of the road is used (at right). These differences cause difficulties in the article and, though factual, interrupt the flow and cause several redundancies. For example, the discussion of the disadvantages of speed bumps lists a North American example and then a British example where most of the same points are repeated. When you combine that repetition with the subsequent discussion on speed humps (...do I have to say it?), the repetition only gets worse. Last, we have a section that, out of the blue, brings in the UK.
I suggest simplifying the article to address the topic from a generalized format describing speed bumps, speed humps, and speed tables, and their key differences in a short paragraph and then bring in national or continental terminologies (sleeping policemen, etc.). Criticisms are worthy of their own section with a surmised list of critical points against the different options. It really doesn't have to be as painful as the present revision, does it? -- Srwalden ( talk) 05:40, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
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The history section jumps from before 1910 to Compton. It seems to say the speed bump was invented in the beginning of the century and then it was invented later. This is at best confusing. 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:1D92:A114:182A:877B ( talk) 21:47, 22 July 2023 (UTC)