Now, the city may try to fix the problem, not by slowing down cars but by tearing the homes down.
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If you go to Google Earth's street view, you can the residents at the T are real tired of that shit - they've installed 5 huge concrete planters to protect their house.
I'd suggest tank sized caltrops or three/four wire barriers that they use on divided highways.
ReplyDeleteFor a lot less money they could install bollards that would look like a flower pot but stop a speeding truck.
ReplyDeleteTearing the house down is idiotic. What will they do when the vehicles just fly across the now (very expensive) vacant lot and hit the back of the house on the next street? Tear that one down too? Where does this process end?
So, the City will have to spend money to purchase the property, no doubt pay the moving expenses of the current residents, remove and dispose of a structure or structures on the lot, plus anything else (fencing, driveways, etc.), restore and then most likely landscape it, maintain it forever AND lose the property from the tax roll.
Fucking genius! Such is the caliber of municipal planning these days.
Which is exactly what the residents of the house did, as I so thoughtfully pointed out in my commentary.
DeleteAs the article says, that's "another neighbor" not the house under discussion. And commercially available planters, however large, are not the same thing as the steel reinforced, deeply embedded in the ground, disguised anti-truck-bomb bollards that could be installed for much less money than purchasing and razing the houses. But that would mean liability from idiot drivers killing themselves on the bollards, so...
DeleteAfter viewing this situation, I would dead-end this street with barriers and make traffic go another way to get access to the street at this stoopid perpendicular intersection.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking on behalf of the city why would you do that when you can pay an 'expert' $125,000 to 'solve' the problem for you? That way if it doesn't work you'll have someone else to blame.
DeleteThis technique is known as pre-emptively covering your ass.
Government is here to help.
ReplyDelete"the city council will consider spending $125,000 on a consultant to study the intersection and identify some solutions."
ReplyDeleteFigures. It takes me over 3 fucking years to make that much money. I could prob go out there, take a look, and make a recommendation the same day. It would most likely be speed bumps and barriers.
“There's more than one way to skin a cat.” That’s a revolutionary way of bureaucratic thinking.
ReplyDeleteI lived on a "T" like that growing up. My father and i put up a cement block wall after a car crashed into my parent's bedroom one Friday night. We drove 2" pipes into the ground going through the holes in the blocks, then filled the holes with concrete.
ReplyDeleteAfter that we dug 3 3' deep holes. We set a 3" diameter, 6' long galvanized pipe in each hole, set in concrete. We filled each pipe with concrete and embedded a reflector in the concrete.
A short while later, a drunken teenager ran completely through that wall AND ALL THREE backing pipes before stopping.
Had to rebuild that wall three times until I got married and moved away. And that was just OUR house.
An old friend in Louisiana had that problem. He built his picket fence out of 10 ft pieces of surplus 4.5" drill pipe. High tensile steel with 1/2" wall thickness, set 6' in the ground on 12" centers. The highway department was mad at him, but he had the required offset, so when the 50 mph pickup hit and bounced back, all they could do was scrape up the mess.
ReplyDeleteJohm in Indy
Article says one woman crashed into a house because she was shot and killed why driving down the road.
ReplyDeleteSacramento is a lost cause.
Wait, you can make 125,000 bucks as a consultant to tell them to put up a sign, install a speed bump, or get this, a guard rail? Holy shit I'm in the wrong business.
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