Stop the speed bumps

FACTS:

SPEED BUMPS ARE DANGEROUS IN EMERGENCIES – THEY CAN COST LIVES. Ambulances and fire trucks are slowed down up to 13 seconds for EACH speed bump. Seconds DO count in an emergency. Lake Price Road will slow emergency vehicles over 2 minutes EACH WAY to and from an emergency. Heart attack victims could die waiting for help. The
"Anti Safe Streets Residents" (ASSR's) DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS! They would rather their neighbors DIE than have more traffic in front of their homes (which just happen to be on a main street)! According to a Miami Herald interview with a paramedic, “Our trucks have to crawl over them. If we are carrying someone with a neck or spinal injury, you can’t go more than 5mph over them. Can you imagine doing an IV with a patient and hitting a bump?” YES, EVEN AT A CRAWL, THEY HURT.
"Councils to spend millions" The Electronic Telegraph, England, February 27, 2000
"TOWNS and cities throughout Britain are to spend millions of pounds removing up to 500,000 road humps, because they are a potential hazard for new buses built with lower floors to allow wheelchair access."
- "...roads with humps have been declared bus-less zones and routes now go along hump-free streets. ... Although low-floor buses can just about get over them, road humps can damage the undercarriage and provide an uncomfortable ride for passengers."
- "Ambulances already have to go on special routes to avoid (the humps) when transferring critically ill people to hospital if there is a danger a sudden jolt could make their injuries worse."

SPEED BUMPS DAMAGE VEHICLES. Even crawling over these bumps and grinding traffic to a halt, serious vehicular damage occurs to cars, county emergency vehicles, school buses and trucks (not to mention damage to the contents from bumping along). Driving over them daily produces a cumulative damaging effect. They must be driven over at idle creeping speed, NOT 25 mph. Taxpayers pay for increased county vehicle maintenance costs, but Anti Safe Streets Residents (ASSR's) DON'T CARE! They just think that everyone (including the disabled, seniors and disabled children's bus) wants to speed past their house (which happens to be on a MAIN ROAD - anyone listening?)

SPEED BUMPS COST TAXPAYERS MONEY AND INCREASE AREA POLLUTION. The repeated braking-acceleration causes vehicles to burn more gasoline, increasing your fuel costs (just what we all need) and adding UP TO 10% to the area's pollution. Anti Safe Streets Residents (ASSR's) DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS EITHER. Anything is worth it to them to have less traffic outside their home. Anything.

SPEED BUMPS NEGATIVELY AFFECT PROPERTY VALUES Think about it. You don't like driving over an unsightly and dangerous roller coaster road every day. Would you have purchased in this area if these road impediments were already installed? Would you have wanted to purchase in an area which made you drive over 9 speed bumps every day to and from your home? The overwhelming majority of people say "NO" to that question. What will that do when it comes time to sell YOUR home? Ah, one topic that WILL affect the Anti Safe Streets Residents (ASSR's) at house sale time.

SPEED BUMPS FRUSTRATE DRIVERS AND DIVIDE COMMUNITIES. The majority of drivers obey speed limits. Impeding roads with reverse potholes and forcing people to endure the disruption and inconvenience simply adds to road rage. In some communities, drivers honk their horn as they pass over every speed bump as a form of protest. People already spend too much time on the road without having their daily drive disrupted even more. Anti Safe Streets Residents (ASSR's) DON'T CARE HOW anyone else feels about humps. THEY want them and THEY like them and THEY just want THEIR way and no other residents of "their" community should have any say in what THEY want, even though THEY are the minority and THEY LIVE ON A MAIN ROAD (or didn't they notice this small fact?) How selfish and un-neighborly and shortsighted can these people be? THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO DEAL WITH TRAFFIC!

SPEED BUMPS CAUSE PAIN FOR DISABLED INDIVIDUALS.
Anti Safe Streets Residents (ASSR's) JUST DON'T CARE that speed bumps cause discomfort for disabled people and those with back and neck injuries. As unpleasant as it is for a healthy person to be suddenly jolted by constant stop and go over roller-coaster road impediments, imagine what an injured person feels. Senior Citizen Transport Buses jolt our precious seniors who already are in pain. Don't tell us that these people just want to "speed"!

SPEED BUMPS ARE BEING OUTLAWED AND REMOVED IN MANY COMMUNITIES. Extensive governmental studies have proven that speed bumps are no more than an annoying, destructive and ineffective method of traffic control. NO accidents are prevented from their installation. In fact, a young girl was recently killed after being struck by a vehicle negotiating around a speed bump.