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Traffic calming hurts emergency service response. Ambulances have to slow down to a crawl thru this "calming." Buyer beware.
by astral303 10y ago
Traffic calming hurts emergency service response. Ambulances have to slow down to a crawl thru this "calming." Buyer beware.
- Kluny 10y agoIt's still easier to get through calming than it is to get through a street jammed with traffic.
- FroshKiller 10y agoI mean, I don't think I've ever seen an ambulance stop for a stop sign. But even allowing that speed bumps will slow an ambulance down, it's not as though there would ever be 200 speed bumps delaying the ambulance by 10 minutes. If the ambulance arrives a few seconds too late, the ambulance was already several minutes too late to begin with.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoSpeed bumps are smoother if taken at speed. Now, speed humps will send ya flying.
- ipsi 10y agoI believe that ambulances and especially fire trucks have a wider wheelbase than cars and vans do, so what I've seen in a number of places is speed humps that don't cover the entire road. They're wide enough that you can't avoid them with a car, but narrow enough that an ambulance or fire truck won't notice them. Or possibly it's for buses.
- skiningham 10y agoWhere I live, the ambulances are just vans with modifications. I think the smaller-width speedbumps are either for busses or to cut costs. I've also seen a police cruiser Crown Vic with lights and sirens take some speed "humps" at a surprisingly high rate of speed without issue.
- Casseres 10y agohttp://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/136102/magic-speed-to-drive-over-a-speed-bump-myth-or-reality http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/136102/magic-spee...
- blakeshall 10y agosource?
- astral303 10y agohttp://www.calmingrisk.com/ambresptimes.html http://www.calmingrisk.com/ambresptimes.html
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