Tonight, I came home to a strange scene. When I approached my house, I noticed a
very large wet spot on the road in front of the house. I wondered what had
happenned, since no other area appeared to be wet...

As I was about to enter my house, my neighbor hailed me, to tell me the story of how a speeder was driving on our street and hit a small kitten that was playing in the street. It was a direct hit, and the cat's body evidently had seizures before it died.

What a horrible way to die, and what if it had been one of the many children that live and play in our neighborhood? As we stood there, talking on the sidewalk in front of our houses, several cars roared past, 20, 30 and one maybe 50 mph.

How do I convince the city to help the us? Should we ask for speed bumps? I am sick from thinking about the possibilities of careless disaster
waiting to happen, again.

Briget


By Briget

Speed Humps can be an answer....

If you live in the Coronado neighborhood, be on the lookout for May's newsletter. It should be delivered the 4th or 5th.

It specifically addresses the speed hump process.

The City of Phoenix has a very good program now for speed humps (their term because they're bigger than speed bumps).

If you live in our neighborhood and don't get the newsletter, please e-mail me. Thanks.

By Alavan

reply to ''speeding death''

Your story touched me because I am at the point of dispair over the speeding, especially on Virginia, between 7th and 12th Streets. Some drivers seem to see how fast they can go between these streets without regard for speed limits, the safety of pets or persons & the City does nothing to enforce the speed limits. I'm sure people would respond by receiving a ticket with a substantial fine.

By Alicia

Historically Slower

Dear Alavan,

Speed humps are a comical stage in the evolution of street transportation, hardly appropriate to a ''historic'' setting. Cobblestones would be more effective and picturesque. I wouldn't be surprised if we could all be equipped with bicycles or mules for less money than gets spent on speed humps and other traffic controls. Our children and kittens would certainly live longer. My recommendation is that we all park our infernal combustion machines in a garage on 12th St & McDowell and walk a few blocks to and from home. The retailers can hire push carts and delivery boys. Much speed is inefficient. Why not exempt our home lives from the rat race? I doubt you will take this seriously, but I predict a return to historical tempos, either by intelligent cooperation or by imposed necessity.

Gently yours,

Thomas Oliver