More city work on SW Trenton by Westwood Village today. This time, it’s speed-cushion installation. We reported last month that SDOT planned to install four sets of speed cushions on Trenton between 25th and 29th, as part of the Safe Routes to School program (with the Chief Sealth International High School/Denny International Middle School campus a block north). Crews are working today, east to west; we happened onto them as they were finishing the easternmost cushions and moving westward.
Install no overnight parking signs as well! Have you ever counted those signs near Fauntleroy ferry neighborhoods? It’s like every 20’. Amazing!!
That section of Trenton needs 2000-pound concrete blocks and galvanized steel planters at the curbs, not these new road hazards.
They’re only hazardous if you’re going well over the speed limit. Personally I wish they’d put in proper speed bumps since the humps don’t seem to do nearly enough to slow down dangerous drivers.
They’re only hazardous to economy cars. The bumps fit in the wheelbase of large SUVs and pickups so they don’t have to slow down.
And yet no crosswalks on 27th between Kenyon and Thistle where dozens of students, parents, and siblings cross during the wild, wild experience that is Denny drop-off and pickup. I was hit as a pedestrian by a car speeding through the school zone, but no cares given by anyone. Could be a child next time.
Put em on Fauntleroy all the way from Alaska to California. Drivers just go too fast for fellow humans who walk, it’s gotta stop before someone dies
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