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New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: "It's ridiculous"
« on: March 30, 2025, 07:38:18 pm »

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
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Re: New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: "It's ridiculous"
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2025, 07:58:09 pm »
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.
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Re: New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: "It's ridiculous"
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2025, 07:35:44 am »
Looks like an in-car sobriety test. How the hell are drunk drivers gonna be able to follow that?
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Re: New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: "It's ridiculous"
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2025, 08:24:41 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on March 31, 2025, 07:35:44 am
Looks like an in-car sobriety test. How the hell are drunk drivers gonna be able to follow that?

Exactly. This is bigotry and discrimination by the white devil.
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Re: New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: "It's ridiculous"
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2025, 08:43:44 am »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on March 31, 2025, 08:24:41 am
Exactly. This is bigotry and discrimination by the white devil.

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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Re: New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: "It's ridiculous"
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2025, 08:47:55 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on March 31, 2025, 07:35:44 am
Looks like an in-car sobriety test. How the hell are drunk drivers gonna be able to follow that?
If you are sober and manage to do so:
"Your honor, the car was weaving erratically, so we performed a traffic stop..."

...with all that can ensue, including a search of the vehicle.

If you want to slow people down, leave the potholes and save money.
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Re: New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: "It's ridiculous"
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2025, 05:18:16 pm »
That reminds me of an adventure in stripes they recently tried in my small town neighborhood.
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Re: New road design has neighbors in Pennsylvania suburb calling for change: "It's ridiculous"
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2025, 05:54:49 pm »
Remember when pics like the one above used to be posted as humor, as a joke...?

If they want folks to slow down, install a couple of mild speed bumps. That works, even on a straight road.
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