Speed Bumps Should Not Be Less Jarring
Regarding the article “Officials Seeking Use of Less Jarring ‘Speed Bumps’ ” (June 18), the city attorney’s concern over speed bumps causing accidents is not a valid argument against them. If the motorist is maintaining the speed limit (25 m.p.h.), the speed bump will not cause loss of control of the vehicle.
What the city attorney should be concerned about is the potential danger to pedestrians (particularly schoolchildren) who walk on Greenleaf Street, between Noble and Kester avenues in Sherman Oaks, because there are no sidewalks.
This stretch of road becomes a racetrack, since there are parking restrictions that create a straightaway. There is a high potential for loss of control through speeding, not from going over speed bumps at less than 25 m.p.h.
Speed bumps are desperately needed, and not less jarring ones.
GEORGE J. FREY
Sherman Oaks
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