I would like to know. There are two speed bumps in our apartment parking lot, and two in my work parking lot. If I come home for lunch during the day, by the time I get home I will have driven over 16 individual speed bumps. Even if I take each one slowly, or at the "recommended" speed, I can’t believe this has no affect on my car throughout the year. If I work 50 weeks a year, 5 days a week, I’ll have roughly 4000 times that my car’s suspension was needlessly worn on. And given Jen’s recent car issues, I wonder what that means my car will be like over time.
The state of Indiana is infatuated with these things, and I have no idea why. I swear, retarded blind monkeys developed the road system here. But maybe that’s giving too much credit to retarded blind monkeys. The concept of side roads, and smaller roads to ease traffic is a foreign concept.
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find any sort of data on whether speed bumps are harmful to cars or not. There’s a ton of small time articles arguing against them by communities pissed off at them being installed. And there’s the same number of biased articles arguing for them, so I don’t know who to believe. And the few articles I found that sounded somewhat intelligent talked of "speed humps" instead of bumps. Bah! Here are a couple of links I DID come up with:
What to do, what to do. Maybe I really will just drive around them….the Escape could handle it. Or maybe I’ll device a ramp system that will set right in front of the bump, and allow me to drive over it unhindered. Yeah, that’ll show them…..
February 9th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Speed bumps are evil. Speed humps however don’t seem so rough on the car. There’s a few downtown in GR that I deal with from time to time and it’s really smooth. Speed bumps seem to work the shocks out even if you crawl over it. Who knows… sucks that retarded blind monkeys design things down there. Although… It’s gotta be cheeper to bribe them with banana’s than with money. It could be possible that since they are retarded monkeys you can just bribe them with pictures of banana’s. I’d look into this.
February 9th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
I don’t think they’re that worried about money. They just sold the toll road to some Australian firm for a 75 year lease and some billion odd dollars. I can’t wait until we have flying cars in 50 years, rendering the stupid toll road useless, and then we’ll see who has the last laugh!
February 11th, 2006 at 4:24 am
The speed bumps are all the new teen drivers’ fault! All they do is speed, crazy whipper snappers. I know I dislike them strongly and always try to find the lowest point of the bump so that at least one tire can go over it smoothly. But, they always win in the end. BAH
February 11th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Don’t get me started…stupid bumps f-ed up my car! They better hope I don’t get my hands on a jackhammer.