Sunday, August 19, 2007

traffic calming devices

There was a sign for "traffic calming devices" at an intersection that I pass all the time. They will be installed on or about May 8, 2006, which means it's been there for about a year and a half, and I had never seen it before. But anyway, what is a traffic calming device? Does that mean speed hump (the ones that are wider than regular speed bumps and aren't painted yellow)? Or is it something else? At any rate, it's a funny term.

3 comments:

Fishfrog said...

Sounds like a device that plays classical music and dims the lights in order to prevent road rage.

Nell said...

No... ambient noise, like sounds of the rainforest and that kind of thing. It probably also emits the smell of lavender, that's supposed to be calming.

Amanda G. said...

I was almost the victim of road rage the other day, so I would have welcomed a traffic calming device for this crazy lady who wanted to kill me.