SIMI VALLEY : City Council Votes to Install Speed Humps
Responding to complaints about motorists who drive too fast through a residential neighborhood, the Simi Valley City Council voted Monday to install one or more speed humps on Brower Street between Sycamore Drive and Wisteria Street.
Speed humps, which are wider and do not jolt vehicles as harshly as the more narrow speed bumps commonly found in parking lots, are placed on residential streets to remind drivers to slow down.
City traffic studies determined that 95% of the drivers exceed the 25-m.p.h. speed limit on Brower Street, and it meets all other city guidelines to qualify for speed humps. More than 2,000 vehicles a day use the street.
As required by the city, 16 of 21 households on the street supported the installation of at least one traffic control device, exceeding the city’s requirement that 67% of the households endorse the plan.
The signatures were gathered by Beverly Berry, who has lived in the neighborhood since 1959. Berry said speeding motorists have destroyed several mailboxes and trees along Brower Street, and she was concerned that more serious accidents would occur if drivers were not forced to slow down.
“Somebody’s going to get killed,” she said.’
The city will install one and, if necessary, two humps, the council said.
Installation of two speed humps will cost about $2,700, city staff members said. Currently, 14 other streets in the city have street humps.
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