speed humps

[Barbara Need]

In Ithaca, the intersection-wide ones are called "raised intersections"

Barbara

Barbara Need
Ithaca

On 2 May 2011, at 12:26 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 5/2/2011 04:15 AM, Michael Quinion wrote:
>> In the UK, the official term for a wide traffic calming bump is
>> "speed
>> table". Traffic engineeers sometimes put a pedestrian crossing on
>> one.
>
> I suppose in the olden days, the "humps" were called "bunches", as
> on camels.
>
> In the Boston area, I have encountered all three -- narrow (2 or 3
> feet), wider, and very wide (as wide as the crossing street).  And in
> one town, Belmont, a true Bactrian -- a hump, a depression, and
> another hump.

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