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England learns speed control from Belmont
By [email protected] on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 2:14pm
Today's Globe gives us in-depth coverage of Navestock, England, which admits to specifically not filling in potholes as a method of controlling driving speeds. You can't drive around it, and that's the hole, er, whole story.
Isn't that what Belmont and a few other sections of local communities do? Not only do notable chunks of Belmont roads still feel awfully rough to me, it's always interesting seeing those few private roads in local communities that choose to not repair just one stretch of potholes, to avoid gathering too much traffic.
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Potholes and Speed
I honestly believe that this idea is part of what is slowing the repair of Rt. 9 between 128 and Hammond St. The roadway is so bad that the comparison of hundreds of dollars to fix a broken axle and realign the car versus a 19 cent gas tax increase moves from an abstract thought a real calculation.
The road is narrow and has lots of curb cuts on that stretch (many of which are for residences). I suspect that the residents want slower speeds so they don't get killed going in and out of their driveways, and the state highway engineers don't want higher speeds unless the number of curb cuts is somehow decreased. The crater-like holes and half-pipe sized dips nicely take care of each.