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New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: "It's ridiculous"
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New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: "It's ridiculous"
CBS News
By Raymond Strickland, Bill Seiders
March 29, 2025
Drivers are zig-zagging down one road in Montgomery Township and it's not to avoid a pothole. It's a new road design to get drivers to slow down on Grays Lane, which has created quite the conversation among neighbors.
"I think it's an eyesore. I think it's ridiculous," said William King.
"I think it's awkward. It's weird. I'm not used to it," said Ashley Wyckoff.
The traffic calming measure features yellow and white curved lines that run along two blocks of the road. They were painted on Friday. A Facebook post from the police department said the new design was in response to neighbors' complaints about speeding drivers. The department said signage, along with safety devices called "delineators," will be added.
Most drivers stayed within the lines, but not everybody.
"I mean right now, everyone is just driving through the middle of it," Lauren Chesterton said.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/road-design-montgomery-township-grays-lane
Kamaji:
Geez. Just put a few roundabouts in; that'll slow people down without making it look like the paint striping machine driver was on acid that day.
Wingnut:
Looks like an in-car sobriety test. How the hell are drunk drivers gonna be able to follow that?
Free Vulcan:
--- Quote from: Wingnut on Monday, Mar 31, 2025 03:35 am ---Looks like an in-car sobriety test. How the hell are drunk drivers gonna be able to follow that?
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Exactly. This is bigotry and discrimination by the white devil.
andy58-in-nh:
--- Quote from: Free Vulcan on Monday, Mar 31, 2025 04:24 am ---Exactly. This is bigotry and discrimination by the white devil.
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It will certainly have a "disproportionate impact" on the class of minority citizens who use alcohol and drugs (such as those who inhabit nearby Camden, NJ) so I would expect an ACLU lawsuit to follow.
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