Rumble strips installed in Hoboken
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11/16/2007:
Here’s a little bit of an improvement for Hoboken. Rumble strips have been installed in various places, such as The Sinatra Speedway Sinatra Drive. Some have also been put in on Hudson St. too.
I’m sure these were installed as a “deterrent” for speeding, but as I watched cars scream around the bend, it was only partially effective. They’re similar to the strips installed near toll booths on the NJ Turnpike (not like the Garden State Parkway, though). My guess it’s to “wake up” possible drunk drivers?
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November 16th 2007 - 12:09:14 |
you are absolutely correct. rumbles only serve to advise a driver to be alert and does nothing to reduce vehicle speed. who exactly makes these decisions? the rumbles weren’t cut in the pavement for free. and are very short lived, requiring frequent replacement. again, who is making these decisions?
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November 16th 2007 - 13:11:42 |
Given the proximity to the several parks, keeping drivers alert isn’t such a bad thing. Good luck finding out who made the decision! Probably it was the same guy who wouldn’t turn on the light at Hudson and Newark.
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November 16th 2007 - 15:48:32 |
Whomever makes these decisions has no idea what they are doing.
The speed bumps are generally ill-placed as well (e.g., immediately prior to a controlled intersection). People with the right of way are forced to slow for the bump, when they have no stop sign, thereby confusing the hell out of the person at the stop sign.
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November 16th 2007 - 16:05:43 |
Did they install them up by Maxwell Place where the park street entrance is? I still don’t feel safe up there. A truck might just jump the curb at any time.
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November 16th 2007 - 18:30:35 |
Seems to me that they’re at the bottom of the Stevens stairs, right? This is basically where people cross from the Stevens campus to the parking lot near the river. Sounds like a Stevens-oriented pedestrian measure.
The big danger on Sinatra seems to me to be the intersection of 4th and Sinatra. Every time I’m sitting at the red light going south on Sinatra/west on 4th I feel like someone’s going to come wailing around the curve and smash into me, not knowing the red light is there.
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November 16th 2007 - 18:32:00 |
Aaaah, never mind. They’re by the skate park rather than the parking lot.
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November 16th 2007 - 22:56:43 |
They have them by the stairs too…
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November 17th 2007 - 10:24:01 |
The Speed Limit on Sinatra is 35 mph. I don’t understand the point of the rumble strips by the skate park. They don’t make me slow down. There isn’t a cross walk there, so what’s the point.
I’ve seen people scream at cars to “SLOW DOWN” that are clearly going the speed limit. Why do people think the speed limit is 15 mph?
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November 17th 2007 - 10:49:13 |
The biggest problem I have with these rumble strips is that they are both cut in-line for both sides of the roadway. I have seen more than one pedestrian confuse these for a marked crosswalk. The traditional way to install these on a 2-way roadway is to offset the ones on one side of the double-yellow from the other side by a small distance.
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