All this arguing with the city of Sacramento began more than a decade ago because Nora Wilson has always loved sitting on her front porch. That gave her an unbeatable view of drivers speeding down her Tahoe Park street, and that got her angry.
“There’s a lot of pedestrian traffic, there’s a lot of people that are walking their dogs, walking their children, kids playing out in their yards, bicycles,” said Wilson, now 68. “I started to get worried at the amount of traffic that comes through.”
Around 2013, after she’d already lived in the house for a few years, Wilson learned that the city had a mechanism for residents to request speed bumps. She thought that would solve the problem on 62nd Street: Drivers would be forced to slow down, and she and her neighbors would be safe…