Are speed bumps common where you live?

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I can think of one place that had a bunch of them. Its a residential neighborhood near the mall. People were cutting through the residential area to avoid the main street and stoplights/intersections. Speed bumps put a stop to that nonsense. Besides that area I struggle to think of where else there might be any (im sure there is, just cant think of any).

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Major_Enthusiasm1099@reddit

Yes

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raceulfson@reddit

My city has "Speed Bumps", "Speed Lumps", and "Undulations" according to the signs. I have no idea what the difference is.

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mst3k_42@reddit

We have speed humps.

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raceulfson@reddit

I meant "humps" instead of "lumps". Although I would not be surprised to see "lumps". Nothing surprises me after ""undulations".

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mst3k_42@reddit

I don’t think I’ve seen undulations, that one is hilarious.

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DhalsimZangief@reddit

I've never seen the undulation term used anywhere. What part of NC uses that term?

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mst3k_42@reddit

As far as I know, we don’t use it. I was commenting on the word from the parent comment.

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jessek@reddit

Very. You only see them in neighborhoods or by schools though.

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Particular_Bet_5466@reddit

Yep. someone from Colorado above said they only know of one speed bump. Don’t know how that’s possible lol, maybe there’s regions without them.

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sunny_6305@reddit

Unfortunately many of my neighbors cannot be trusted to do the right thing unless their own car is at risk.

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Practical-Ordinary-6@reddit

I distinguish between speed humps and speed bumps. We have quite a few speed humps in neighborhoods here where I live in Georgia. You can go over them at a reasonable speed. They are sort of long so you drive up onto along them and then down the other side so they don't mess up your car too much.

Speed bumps are those high little short ones that wreck your car if you go over them too quickly. You practically have to come to a stop. We don't have a lot of those.

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Slight_Manufacturer6@reddit

Only at some business parking lots. Not in the road.

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qu33nof5pad35@reddit

Yes

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Check_engine_lights@reddit

Yes are they not common elsewhere?

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Sooner70@reddit

I wouldn't know to go where to find one on command. I mean, sure, we have 'em... But common? Nope.

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Krusty_Krab_Pussy@reddit

I feel like they're not super common in MN, I only see them occasionally in parking lots and stuff.

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budgie02@reddit

Right by the stops signs in parking lots too because nobody ever stops

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NemeanMiniLion@reddit

Plows

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Frosty_Ninja3286@reddit

Exactly, my town in NJ has the ones that are removable before the winter hits.

We live near the ocean and the town is overrun with weekenders and other tourists that speed down the streets, so they get installed before the summer and removed before the winter

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SiteRude6498@reddit

not very common where I live either

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meowmix778@reddit

They were uncommon where I lived in NH unless it was a parking lot. You didn't really find them on streets too often.

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saberlight81@reddit

I can't remember the last time I drove over one, except in like the parking lot of a strip mall. They put them down in my neighborhood like 15 years ago and all the residents threw a fit so they took them back out after six months.

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HoyAIAG@reddit

Not super common in Ohio

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CinemaSideBySides@reddit

Depends where in Ohio. I'm in a denser residential area of a city and they've been putting in a lot of them.

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HoyAIAG@reddit

We have them all over my city but no where else.

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Apocalyptic0n3@reddit

They aren't nearly as common in colder places in my experience. Plows destroy them.

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MattieShoes@reddit

I can only think of one near me, at the entrance to a grocery store parking lot. There are probably others in neighborhoods, but I don't generally drive through neighborhoods I don't live in.

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Free-Sherbet2206@reddit

No, they just approved guidelines for them where I live and installed the first ones on a public street a few weeks ago.

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Dizzy_Lengthiness_92@reddit

I’ve got several in my complex

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Such-Mountain-6316@reddit

Somewhat. Most places around here involuntarily substitute potholes for the purpose. 🤣

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Overall-Tailor8949@reddit

Yes, in my immediate area they're called "potholes"

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TEG24601@reddit

Speed bumps are a symptom of a poorly designed road. They shouldn’t be needed. If they are, your planners failed.

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Number_Fluffy@reddit

At my apartment and at my work.

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muphasta@reddit

Unfortunately

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WHowe1@reddit

Lol, I live in Michigan, we call them potholes, and they just appear out of nowhere.

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Hypnox88@reddit

The only one near me is at the bottom of a very curvy road down hill. The elevation drop is significant so its always funny driving behind someone who never taken that road before.

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VisionAri_VA@reddit

Very. We have speed bumps, speed humps, speed tables and speed cushions.

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MasterOfPuppetsMetal@reddit

In my town, we only have them in parking lots.

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TiFist@reddit

Of course? They're common in private parking lots/private roads and sometimes found in neighborhoods that successfully argue that they get too much traffic.

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IlexAquifolia@reddit

Depends on the region. Rare where I live because we get heavy snow and they are a problem for snow plows.

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TiFist@reddit

Fair. I was 28 before I ever even saw a snowplow. It was like seeing a unicorn.

They're much more common on private property, but are in relatively wealthy neighborhoods who don't like traffic (NIMBY-ism basically, since cities benefit when there are plenty of alternate routes and as few dead-end streets as possible.)

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meowmix778@reddit

Too much traffic or speeders.

The neighborhood I live in has a miserable 15 mph speed limit, and the main road is 55. People were taking the roads just before the main road at that 55. So there's 3 speed bumps there now. Well technically they're tables but that's not here or there.

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Candid-Math5098@reddit

Yes, on a few side streets that connect busier ones.

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vanillablue_@reddit

My apt complex has ten.

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Quicherbichen1@reddit

I drive for rideshare so, I have been on almost all the streets in Albuquerque, NM. There are no speed bumps on our main streets, but I swear that every single street that is not a main artery through the city has some sort of obstacles on them - speed bumps, speed humps, rumble strips, and curbs blocking off cross streets. Some speed bumps are really high, others are really wide, like my car has all 4 tires on top of the thing before going back down to the pavement again. This city is ridiculous mad about speeding obstacles.

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madqueen100@reddit

On residential streets in some cities, yes. In some places they are called “speed humps” instead of “bumps”,, giving rise to local humor.

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SiteRude6498@reddit

they're not common but they're not extremely uncommon

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FlyAffectionate6307@reddit

There are some nice speedbumps at ogg airport Maui Hawaii.

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cryptoengineer@reddit

Varies by town. Some have a lot, others zero.

What bothers me are the huge humps that launch you into the air if don't notice them, and hit them at speed

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Subvet98@reddit

We usually call them children but call them what you want

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Forsythia77@reddit

In Chicago, the signs say Speed Humps. The quickie homes write themselves.

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NixMaritimus@reddit

We don't need them, we have frost heaves XD

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meowmix778@reddit

My favorite part of this time of the year is figuring out which roads/back roads you need to drive up and down like a drunk to dodge all the cracks and potholes.

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meowmix778@reddit

Fairly, yes. From my house to the main road I pass 3. In the area I work there's a few here and again.

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kmoonster@reddit

On low-volume streets, yes. We voted-in a law a few years ago to lower the default speed limit (the default when none is posted) and that allowed the city to take more active measures to tweak the way traffic calming is enforced.

Among the options now are speed pillows. A speed "bump" is pretty sharp and meant for parking lots, max speed for them is about 5-10 miles/hour (7-15km/hour).

Speed cushions/pillows allow speeds about double that, and have gaps for large vehicles like busses and fire trucks. They are more appropriate for roads.

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drebinf@reddit

speed pillows

Around here they're called Speed Humps. Which brings about completely different imagery to me...

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dystopiadattopia@reddit

Yep. They keep putting more in to keep idiots from speeding or drag racing down residential streets

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_pamelab@reddit

Only in parking lots around here.

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jsmeeker@reddit

yes. i encounter a few every time I leave my apartment and come back home.

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KagakuNinja@reddit

Yes, and not just in parking lots. Some residential streets also have "traffic calming barriers" that eliminate parking spots and force you to drive in a zig zag pattern.

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CtForrestEye@reddit

Now that it's spring, the town is reinstalling some. They got removed for the snowplows.

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RobotShlomo@reddit

Where I live citizens have been pleading with the city for year to fix the potholes. So, what did they do? Put in speed bumps.

Right idea but poor execution.

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Living_Fig_6386@reddit

There's a road that crosses my street that has them -- it's a long straight road that leads to an elementary school and has historically had people driving fast on it. There are also huge speed bumps in neighborhoods near my office (in the city) and in the parking deck at work.

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No-Profession422@reddit

Mostly in parking lots.

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willtag70@reddit

In my area they are common in some parking lots, housing developments and neighborhoods.

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ZaphodG@reddit

It snows. Speed bumps and snowplows don’t coexist. The mall has speed tables at the entrance doors that are around 100 feet wide. The 7,500 student state university in town has speed bumps on the ring road around the main campus. My private beach has one at the entrance to the gravel parking lot.

It’s April. The pot holes are traffic calming.

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Responsible_Side8131@reddit

Only in parking lots.

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Outrageous-Pin-4664@reddit

Yes. They just put a bunch on the street right before my mom's neighborhood. The street connects two major roads, so it gets used as a shortcut a lot, and they were speeding.

I don't object to the concept, but the implementation leaves something to be desired. The posted speed limit for the street is 35mph. The bumps are about 100 yards apart, and they have signs saying to slow down to 25mph to go over them. The bumps are so high, though, that 25 isn't good for your front end alignment. Instead of holding people to a 35mph speed limit, they've basically reduced the speed limit on the road to 25mph.

Either lowering the bumps a bit or spacing them further apart would have been a much better way to go.

At the very least, they should remove the 35mph signs, because they just look sarcastic now.

"Go ahead. Drive 35mph. Make some mechanic's day."

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sluttypidge@reddit

Only in my work parking lot. I rarely see then anywhere else.

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rawbface@reddit

Not in my neighborhood. I've mainly seen them in the parking lots and driveways of condo developments.

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Thereelgerg@reddit

Yes

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CountChoculasGhost@reddit

Almost every residential street in my neighborhood has them. Can see two from my window right now.

Main roads don’t though

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No_Prior_4114@reddit

Where i grew up they were plentiful. Where I live now not so much.

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TheBimpo@reddit

I live in a rural county surrounded by other rural counties. I can’t think of where a single speed bump is around here.

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_WillCAD_@reddit

Yes, very. They're found in many commercial parking lots, and in many small neighborhood streets where speeding may have been a problem.

We have two varieties - the speed bump, which is a higher, hemispherical ridge that causes a massive bump as you drive over it, and the speed hump, which is wider and shallower. Bumps make you slow down to a crawl, while humps simply make you reduce speed for safety.

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Lugbor@reddit

We call them potholes around here.

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GreenBeanTM@reddit

Not really, the only place I can actually think of them are the road that leads down to the high school (the building is set back from the main road a ways). I know there are definitely others, but I genuinely can’t think of where they are.

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Overall_Chemist1893@reddit

No, not in the typical neighborhood in the typical city; in the city where I live, for example, I haven't seen any of them. But in some private (very upper-class) neighborhoods, they might install them so that visitors go slowly when driving through. Also, I've found that some large apartment complexes and even a few Assisted Living places have them, so that the delivery trucks won't speed through.

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DigitalDash56@reddit

The places I’ve seen them the most by far is Cambridge and Somerville

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ZetaWMo4@reddit

There are none in my neighborhood. I only see them in parking lots these days.

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uruiamme@reddit

No. But there is this 50-year-old shopping center near me that's always empty and so everyone drove around the speed bumps.

They finally removed them on the last parking lot re-seal and paint.

I don't think there's many more left in town now.

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Comfortable-Waltz452@reddit

No but these potholes sure do the trick 😔

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Penguin_Life_Now@reddit

I will not say they are common, but there are a few around here on residential streets where there has been a past history of people cutting through and driving too fast.

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LabInner262@reddit

Mic of speed bumps, traffic circles, and traffic cops.

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TheLizardKing89@reddit

They’re only really in parking lots.

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Quirky_Commission_56@reddit

Not where I live. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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StewReddit2@reddit

Depends.....

In commercial lots, easily maybe 30% or so may have them.

When it comes to residential streets it varies greatly...just depends...this housing tract may have them...the next tract over may not.

Some neighborhoods may push to have more than others, some get them due to traffic patterns/historical issues.

Honestly, it tremendously diverse

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PinchedTazerZ0@reddit

I bounce between 3 areas on the west coast, in the north, and the south. Large city, rural area, and a suburb of 100k

I haven't seen any speed bumps anywhere but parking lots and.... school zones maybe?

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LiqdPT@reddit

Residential neighborhoods sometimes. Mine, outside Seattle, has them

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endthepainowplz@reddit

No, seems like they used to be more common in parking lots at the pedestrian crossings, now I only know where two are, and they are well out of the way of anyone.

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Smart_Engine_3331@reddit

Not common, but in some places.

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VeronicaMarsupial@reddit

Yes. EVERYWHERE on non-arterials that are wide enough that people might think they should be able to go faster.

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Grafakos@reddit

Pretty common on residential "through streets" (ones that can be used as shortcuts through neighborhoods) around here. There are often small traffic circles at intersections, for the same reason: slowing people down.

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Writing_Nearby@reddit

Not as common as pot holes

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mangobibi@reddit

Yes, in residential areas and parking lots. I think there are more in more expensive/richer areas.

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TenMoon@reddit

Haha, no. We have a lot of dirt roads and after a rain, they turn into washboards.

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LopsidedGrapefruit11@reddit

In residential areas with a history of dangerous driving. Mostly on very steep hills people want to speed on.

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SkyBerry924@reddit

The only ones near me are at the entrance to the costco parking lot. I live in the Midwest suburbs and there are literally none on public streets

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Dapper-Presence4975@reddit

Yes, and also seeing speed humps crop up more often in residential neighborhoods.

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Aquarius_K@reddit

Only near apartment complexes or trailer parks.

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wegochai@reddit

Yes in neighborhoods. Dips are more common at lights and on busier roads and they’re a nightmare. Especially when you’re trying to make a light and it catches you off guard just as you pass through. Truly the worst.

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notsosecretshipper@reddit

Not really. The only ones I encounter regularly are on the school campus, but I know there are some just inside the entrances to some of the gated communities and also the trailer parks. I think there are a few in the county park too. I can't think of a single one that's just like... out on a public road.

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nosidrah@reddit

They’ve started putting speed “humps” on residential streets around here. They’re about four feet wide.

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tuberlord@reddit

I wish they were. The "my entire net worth is tied up in my truck" crowd loves to race past my house.

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Rock-Wall-999@reddit

Yes

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HoldOnHelden@reddit

Ugh, they keep putting friggin speed bumps on the side streets and it is PISSING ME OFF. Yeah, they’re ALL OVER THE PLACE here in Washington DC and ARGH 🤬

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Mtrina@reddit

Dont need em weve got potholes

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Jerentropic@reddit

They were just installed in the last year on most of the side streets in my neighborhood of Benton Park, in St. Louis.

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anneofgraygardens@reddit

not really. I encounter them very occasionally.

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ToastetteEgg@reddit

They are small neighborhood specific, but in urban areas very common.

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Icy-Role2321@reddit

My apartment complex added them because people kept speeding through the entrance and breaking the gate.

Now people still speed through it and break the gate

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