First Thread - New Wheels, Towing Question

Could you go after the city? I hate those speed bumps, btw.

 

Welcome to PriusChat! If you go after the city there is always the danger that they will ask you "…so what part of SPEED BUMP do you not understand?" (…sorry, but I just had to ask!)

 

how fast did you hit the bump and what psi at the time?

 

You'd hate it here then, we have them all over the place. It started with the local high school kids driving too fast after school, but it wasn't limited to them as there were plenty driving too fast all day long. I don't like them either, but in addition to lowering speeds, they have reduced traffic through the neighborhood and that's good. Ours are designed for 20 mph and the Prius goes over them quite nicely. I wish the same were true with the Dakota.

 

Around here mall parking lots are the worst. There's one in particular, I think the contractor who put them in was maybe payed by the quantity: you're back wheels are barely past the previous speed bump when your front wheels encounter the next, three of 'em in an effing row, along maybe a 100' foot stretch. I go over those at dead-slow (as they say in the Navy), gently up-and-over.

The worst though are like the one you encountered: isolated, on some stretch of road, at the bottom of a hill in particular, that catch you off guard. Somebody should take a long look at the $ impact these are imposing, the tire, rim, wheel bearing, suspension damage.

An additional safety hazard with them, especially the mall parking lot ones: people start driving through the (empty) parking stalls, over on the wrong side of the road, all sorts of accommodations. Makes for the occasional fender bender, pedestrians endangered.

Did I mention I hate them...

A close second: "traffic calming". A few years back they "improved" the main road near our place, widened the center line in places to nearly a lane's width, and wowed out the curbs at crosswalks.

Both with good intention, but the net result was myriad pinch points. There's a high school in the area, and every morning an