ANAHEIM : Group Still Fighting to Get Speed Bumps

About 100 residents of Glenview Avenue and Holbrook Street say they intend to keep fighting to have the city install speed bumps along the roads to reduce speeding traffic.

“I feel very positive about the (City) Council,” said Marcia Clarke, an organizer of Glenview Avenue residents. “But we’ve done our homework, and I’m really tired of hearing of how expensive it is.”

The group has given the council not only letters and petitions, but has also presented slides, graphs and charts to explain that about eight “humps”--designed to be wider and lower than common speed bumps--would work best in slowing commuter traffic that cuts through their neighborhoods.

City engineers, however, say the lower humps are not an assured speed deterrent and only in some cases are successful at reducing speeds.

Engineers would prefer to install a cul-de-sac at the end of each street or install signs preventing turns onto the streets from Kellogg Drive.

City Council members voted last week to study the residents’ proposal and the engineers’ suggestions over the next six weeks, and after that a decision may be made.