...or at least a ‘thank-you’ note from area riders
Whomever came up with this traffic-calming road safety solution deserves recognition by the American Motorcyclist Association. At least an award of some kind.
See: New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: “It’s ridiculous”
If more roads were striped this way, more people would ride motorcycles. Should I ever encounter a road striped this way, I’m going to, uh — forgive the cliche -- ‘lean into it’, and maybe speed up a little, too.
- Mr. Subjective, April 2, 2025
PS – As bees are drawn to pollen and flies are attracted to you-know-what, if ever authorities wanted to ticket hooligans for violating traffic laws, striping a road like this might be an easy way to entrap them.
The neighbors complained about speeding in their neighborhood. City planners tried something to correct it. The neighbors whined about the attempted solution. Typical.
When I taught MN’s Motorcycle Safety classes, I warned my students to assume that everyone in a cage is an idiot. “They need 4 wheels to balance a vehicle, how smart can they be?” It is rarely that cagers are out to kill us. Usually, they barely know where the road is, let alone that anyone else is on it.
Excluding work zones, school zones and one second of US-1 in Philly, we don’t have traffic camera ticketing in PA and local/municipal police forces are forbidden by state law from using radar. So, these traffic calming techniques are all we have to control traffic speeds.
it’s a matter of doing the best you can within the available budget.
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