Traffic & Transit
New Speed Humps On Very Busy Hamden Road Lead To Interesting Initial Results
The town of Hamden is in the midst of installing six new humps on a very busy road, and let's just say the initial results were surprising.
UPDATE: On Wednesday, the second speed hump was installed on Leeder Hill Drive and the third one is going in now (Thursday.) The town placed orange cones in the middle of the speed humps, which has helped alert motorists that they are now there. Of course, the signs were already installed on both sides too.
HAMDEN, CT — The town of Hamden is in the midst of adding six speed humps to Leeder Hill Drive in an effort to reduce speeding.
If you're not familiar with Leeder Hill Drive, it's located off of Treadwell Street, and Treadwell is located off of Dixwell Avenue.
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Leeder Hill Drive is a road that is a mile long in one direction, and it has an eclectic mix of uses including ACES Whitney Academy, ACES Whitney High School North, a massive retirement community, Whitney Center, and a large assisted living facility, Meadow Mills at Whitney Center.
There is also a church, Bible Gospel Center, a daycare, The Learning Center, Yale's Library Shelving Facility, and some manufacturing businesses too. There is also a condo complex of about 50 units known as Arbor Glen.
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The street is known for vehicles traveling at high rates of speed, and several times fences have been crashed into and replaced near a sharp curve at the end of the street.
And so here we are, the town of Hamden is installing six speed humps in an effort to slow people down. As of Wednesday morning, one speed hump had been installed and the initial results have been interesting.
Despite two prominent signs indicating the speed hump is now there, a reporter witnessed a majority of vehicles going slightly airborne over the new speed hump and then quickly slowing down as if they were wondering what that object was.
A few cars did slow down before approaching the new speed hump. Crews are working Wednesday to install more speed humps.
Hopefully, folks will see the signs and slow down, because after all, that is the purpose of the new speed humps.
all photos taken by Brian McCready/Patch staff
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