- Homebuilt speed bump lasted less than an hour before police shut it down.
- Speeding complaints may be real, but speed bumps don’t get installed on vibes.
- If speed is the issue, road design often matters more than enforcement.
Plenty of us have witnessed a reckless driver rocketing down a residential street and thought something akin to “I wish somebody would slow them down.” One man in Lincoln Park, Michigan, just south of Detroit, decided to do something about it.
One sleepy Sunday afternoon, he used his own hard-earned cash to install an asphalt speed bump on his road. Evidently, it survived for less than an hour, but the case has plenty of folks talking days later.
According to WDIV, that man is Dale Wells. He lives on Moran Ave, where he says that people speed constantly. “It’s dangerous,” Wells said. “They run through that stop sign like crazy, especially at 10 o’clock at night. They see no lights and just keep going.” To that end, Wells began construction of his speed bump at around 6 p.m. on Sunday. Police arrived minutes later to tell him to destroy it…