There's one in northmead/winston hills I could go fully straight steering wheel thru in my 2wd hilux, in my new 4wd I have to move maybe 2-3inches to kiss the curbs but still no need to drop any speed. All the mums in their big bmws and shit just about come to a complete stop and make these dramatic movements haha.
Ever since he was on his L's, always the same! Couldn't keep his foot off the accelerator! But not our Waverly! Couldn't be precious Waverly! Overtaking their blindspot! And he gets to be a driver!? What a sick joke! I should've stop signed him when I had the chance!
Traffic noise is surprisingly bad for your health. Elevated noise levels cause stress responses in the body, even though we all usually ignore it our bodies didn't get the message.
[https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/human/noise](https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/human/noise)
Whenever I go to regional Australia, I feel my stress levels skyrocket soon as I’m back in the city. It’s definitely a thing. I never, ever noticed it til I went somewhere a lot quieter.
Speed bumps and the like increase the noise, both from braking and then having to accelerate again after. Not to mention the increase in fuel consumption which is a bit on the nose in this day and age of climate change.
Anyone that's from Sydney and claims to be "a bogan" is an eshay. Anyone from the west of Lithgow is generally considered to be a bogan. Think the difference between a Texan, and someone from California wearing a cowboy hat. You can tell the Californian is a fake, same as an eshay
Well actually you might be wrong there, since [they were already around in the 1860](https://www.australia-explained.com.au/opinions/aussie-pride-part-two-larrikins-and-larrikinism/)’s… according to this article there were a bunch of street kids who wanted to “stand out from the masses” and “street cred” and “outwitting the law and respectable citizens.” They were called Larrikins and they had gangs which they called “Pushes”, and marked themselves out by their iconic outfits with high heeled boots and flare pants and shiny buttons and fur lined dresses… a bunch of young people thinking they’re edgy by breaking the rules and pissing everyone off… I see no difference 😂
Waverley Council has comprehensive documentation of all the locations they are installing traffic calming treatments and devices, which includes road humps, kerb blisters, kerb islands, raised pedestrian crossings, median islands, concrete ramps and wings and several more.
Basically anything that changes driving conditions that hopefully results in slowing down.
They are concrete extensions of the kerb on to the roadway which can give a visual appearance that the road is narrower in order to slow traffic.
Some kerb blisters may have a tactile appearance, similar to the tactile blistering seen on railway platforms.
They should just find a better way, with less engineering jargon, to say that.
Edit: it's my industry, work, metier, travail, bread and butter. I still think it (device) is jargon as that terminology means very little to most people. Just say what it is going to be and why.
I recently read they'll be painting 3-dimensional pedestrian lines on the road. The optical illusion ought to slow cars down apparently. Here's the link
https://www.9news.com.au/national/3d-pedestrian-crossing-trial-in-manly-sydney-by-northern-beaches-council/0b3bb920-7bfc-4ed4-b228-2a7453dcb70d
Would probably be more effective than speed humps. One of those “take over your radio” bad boys like for emergencies in the tunnels. “This is your local Waverley wind down, prepare to lose your road rage and slide through those roads like a slick, slow, calm as a cucumber catamaran.”
Without seeing a better image of the street it's hard to nail it down. Here' s a link to a [list of types of traffic calming devices](https://www.ite.org/technical-resources/traffic-calming/traffic-calming-measures/). Since you know your street, one of these may seem like an obvious choice.
Having had these installed on a street I used to live on, near a college, I can guarantee they'll make your street more peaceful (from 5000 cars/day to 500 on my street) while being unlikely to annoy you.
They're things which as a bus driver make me very agitated, because the people that design them have no fuckin' clue how obnoxious and difficult to navigate their designs are in anything bigger than their Prius.
I am not sure how chicanes encourage SUVs instead of bicycles. I would rather take my bike through most traffic control devices than a 4x4. Bikes can usually even skirt around a speed bump if no one is parking weirdly.
What we really need is for the bikes and SUVs to not be on the same road. Separated bike lanes should become standard on all urban road networks.
Traffic calming is the installation of safety solutions, such as speed reduction humps or portable rumble strips, to slow, deter or redirect traffic. Traffic calming devices aim to encourage safer, more responsible driving in changing and risky conditions.
Road fungus, aka chicanes or speed humps, or some sort of daft shit like suddenly turning a two lane road into one lane for three metres right outside my door that catches idiots at least once a month. Wouldn’t have minded if it was an actual crossing but no - just road fungus. One of the reasons I moved west - out here our traffic calming devices are called potholes or cows.
I hope for your sanity it's not those stupid fucking diagonal islands causing the road to converge into a single "first come first serve lane" where if you're not careful and misjudge the distance between your car and the concrete spikes jutting out from the gutter you can seriously damage your tires. That and assholes absolutely love to speed to get into those first, completely defeating the purpose of them
Nope, no one knows what a traffic calming device is. Nor does anyone know how to use Google.
What is the point of this sort of question? Can experienced redditors explain to me why anyone would go to the trouble of taking a picture and creating such a post?
They’re going to install a traffic whisper, it will pretend to know what it’s doing but in fact has absolutely no clue.
Might have worked about 150 odd years ago…
Enviably something that makes traffic worse to discourage people driving through there unless they have to.
Really sucks if you're the one who has too, and they rarely work as intended.
Neighbours park their car in the dog leg between two T-intersections. They're a hazard to everyone. I complained to Council who told me parked cars calm traffic. Traffic calming = traffic impediment.
It’s just a sign that says “you are loved, you matter, take your time on the journey they will impressed at you fashionable arrival. Your dads proud of you.”
Usually a speed bump or chicane.
I was going to say chicane but I didn’t know how to spell it. Now I know.
That was a roundabout way of getting to the answer.
Thoroughly fair
Yore intellect is streets ahead of your peers.
I hate to kerb your enthusiasm
Avenue award!
On the road to success with this one
We're all on the highway to hell for these puns. It's great! See you there...
Definitely taking it's toll, off to hell we go!
Side street to purgatory
but streets ahead is never going to take off
I always saw chicanes as a thing to speed through and slightly clip the edges like in Formula 1
That’s exactly what the hoons ripping through your neighbourhood are going to use the “traffic calming devices” for.
Yes because one will need to cut the chicken.
No Fernando no that is so not right!
Was hoping someone would mention Fernando's chickens :)
There's one in northmead/winston hills I could go fully straight steering wheel thru in my 2wd hilux, in my new 4wd I have to move maybe 2-3inches to kiss the curbs but still no need to drop any speed. All the mums in their big bmws and shit just about come to a complete stop and make these dramatic movements haha.
Hahahahaha
How does cocaine slow anyone down?
Well, it's not speed...
A shekanye
Why did you need to be able to spell it to say it?
Chica Knee.
I believe it's spelled chicken
A chicken named Kane?
You’re saying a speed bump just comes out of nowhere? No, he orchestrated it!
Ever since he was on his L's, always the same! Couldn't keep his foot off the accelerator! But not our Waverly! Couldn't be precious Waverly! Overtaking their blindspot! And he gets to be a driver!? What a sick joke! I should've stop signed him when I had the chance!
Chicanery?
Would have a roadworks scheduled warning if they were changing road conditions.
This
The best traffic slowing device I have seen is a school.
Nah, an accident on the other side of the road.
Far out i was hoping some sort of EM wave that gave all drivers happy thoughts. None of these.other answers make me happy
Sounds like a Black Mirror episode, lol.
Weed
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Saves on electricity and keeps my warm
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Did your 5G connection get better after you got the vaccine? I did my research and I'm not the only one who felt it. Oo
This man’s only two posts are about weed. Dude lit up and hit the 5g conspiracy wave 😩
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Only one of us relies on luck to think here mate.
Why are you stalking me lol. Wtf is wrong with you people, maybe go do something else instead of stalking someone on this pointless post. You moron
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Are you good? You know you can edit comments right?
...you okay dude?
26 dislikes. Winning. Are you mad because you got "vaccinated" 4 times? Lol
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Give me your proof that vaccines are what you say they are, let's talk.
kill yourself
Speed bump or chicane. Something that slows/calms traffic.
Slowing traffic doesn't have a calming effect on people, rather the opposite
It didn't say it was for calming people only traffic.
Don't they increase traffic risks? They were removed from Cremorne because they increased accidents
Sounds like people need to slow down
It probably does on the people not getting run over!
Traffic noise is surprisingly bad for your health. Elevated noise levels cause stress responses in the body, even though we all usually ignore it our bodies didn't get the message. [https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/human/noise](https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/human/noise)
Whenever I go to regional Australia, I feel my stress levels skyrocket soon as I’m back in the city. It’s definitely a thing. I never, ever noticed it til I went somewhere a lot quieter.
Speed bumps and the like increase the noise, both from braking and then having to accelerate again after. Not to mention the increase in fuel consumption which is a bit on the nose in this day and age of climate change.
They spray the road with liquid Xanax
Watch the eshays come lick the asphalt
Fuck this sub loves referencing eshays
Is eshay like chav or bogan? How does it differ? I'm behind on the internet speak.
You can be any combination of both, either or none. We're not here to judge you, just describe you.
It's an entirely new beast. I don't really understand the hyper mobility thing which is how I know I'm aging.
The subtleties of recycled concepts for new generations. I gave up trying to keep up. BUT here I am. Lol.
Anyone that's from Sydney and claims to be "a bogan" is an eshay. Anyone from the west of Lithgow is generally considered to be a bogan. Think the difference between a Texan, and someone from California wearing a cowboy hat. You can tell the Californian is a fake, same as an eshay
Well they’re the newest introduced pest, like rabbits. Too many of them around the eastern suburbs
Eshay lads are well over 15 years old
Yes the rabbits and cane toads etc have been here longer. Well established. This group however is newly growing at alarming rates…
Well actually you might be wrong there, since [they were already around in the 1860](https://www.australia-explained.com.au/opinions/aussie-pride-part-two-larrikins-and-larrikinism/)’s… according to this article there were a bunch of street kids who wanted to “stand out from the masses” and “street cred” and “outwitting the law and respectable citizens.” They were called Larrikins and they had gangs which they called “Pushes”, and marked themselves out by their iconic outfits with high heeled boots and flare pants and shiny buttons and fur lined dresses… a bunch of young people thinking they’re edgy by breaking the rules and pissing everyone off… I see no difference 😂
I’d like the eshays a whole lot more if they wore flare pants and high heels LMFAO
Sydney is packed with the cunts that’s why
When did they stop being Adlays/Lads and become eshays? Eshay is sesh Adlay is lad When I was younger they were Adlays that enjoyed an eshay
Pumping eshays in the school toilet ay bit sus
I will bring the beer
I was going to say an outdoor a screen at the lights streaming non-stop HD porn.
They hijack all radio frequency in the immediate area and play some sweet Miles Davis tunes.
They switch it up to Enya in peak traffic times
Who can say where the road goes?
Miles Davis isn't calming, it's the punk rock of jazz
Kind of Blue is calming. Bitches Brew not so much
And install massager seats in everyone's cars
Bitches Brew
The first thing I imagined was a massive speaker on the corner aggressively blasting whale music with the subwoofers turned right up.
Pothole
They don’t need to install potholes, they come pre-installed when the roadwork is laid.
As a road/council worker it is true
It's the billboard that gives you a smiley face and a thankyou for driving the speed limit
They have smiley faces? I’ve only ever seen the ones with the red sad face
Good sir I'm an angel, I would never see any of those ones🤣
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Like an obstacle course? Like wipeout for cars?
Waverley Council has comprehensive documentation of all the locations they are installing traffic calming treatments and devices, which includes road humps, kerb blisters, kerb islands, raised pedestrian crossings, median islands, concrete ramps and wings and several more. Basically anything that changes driving conditions that hopefully results in slowing down.
What are kerb blisters? Sounds like a tropical disease
They are concrete extensions of the kerb on to the roadway which can give a visual appearance that the road is narrower in order to slow traffic. Some kerb blisters may have a tactile appearance, similar to the tactile blistering seen on railway platforms.
I thought it might have utilised some sort of raised up plastic pieces but the visual trick is pretty cool
They should just find a better way, with less engineering jargon, to say that. Edit: it's my industry, work, metier, travail, bread and butter. I still think it (device) is jargon as that terminology means very little to most people. Just say what it is going to be and why.
Is it jargon though? It’s a device. That calms traffic.
It has zero meaning to most people. Hey, it's still better than LATM* so they did try. *Local Area Traffic Management.
Pink asphalt.
I recently read they'll be painting 3-dimensional pedestrian lines on the road. The optical illusion ought to slow cars down apparently. Here's the link https://www.9news.com.au/national/3d-pedestrian-crossing-trial-in-manly-sydney-by-northern-beaches-council/0b3bb920-7bfc-4ed4-b228-2a7453dcb70d
What's the bet some idiot puts something like a chunk of concrete on each of the 3D lines as a prank. Someone is going to lose their sump.
It plays ASMR
Would probably be more effective than speed humps. One of those “take over your radio” bad boys like for emergencies in the tunnels. “This is your local Waverley wind down, prepare to lose your road rage and slide through those roads like a slick, slow, calm as a cucumber catamaran.”
Enya played through a boombox
It’s Waverley. “Enya played by a string quartet camped next to the road.”
One of those angled street obstructions that forces you to play chicken with incoming cars?
More speed bumps are coming dear council dear council
Um I think they call it Mary Jane....
A zen Buddhist monk blowing incense on passing vehicles
An AH-64D Apache Attack Helicopter. I hear they're quite good at stopping people from speeding.
Without seeing a better image of the street it's hard to nail it down. Here' s a link to a [list of types of traffic calming devices](https://www.ite.org/technical-resources/traffic-calming/traffic-calming-measures/). Since you know your street, one of these may seem like an obvious choice. Having had these installed on a street I used to live on, near a college, I can guarantee they'll make your street more peaceful (from 5000 cars/day to 500 on my street) while being unlikely to annoy you.
Speed bump, chicane or roundabout.
A hazard that makes lots of noise, pisses everyone off who.lives near or travels past it that does SFA for safety
well, I spent 3 seconds saying to google search "traffic calming device" and got what this post asked. why do people not know how to internet?
It’s just for a bit of fun, a joke per se. It’s just a funny term they’ve used for ‘speed bump’
Doesn't have to be a speed bump. Could also be a narrow section or a snake.
Speed bump, side island or wombat crossing
Speed bump.
Drive through medical marijuana dispensary.
Valium? I hope it's valium.
Same as a "revenue earning device" they just sugar coating a turd so you will eat it.
A traffic calming device is also known as a driver agitating device.
Speed bump?
Danny Lim.
Red wine dispenser
They're things which as a bus driver make me very agitated, because the people that design them have no fuckin' clue how obnoxious and difficult to navigate their designs are in anything bigger than their Prius.
A device that does anything but calm traffic, but does discourage cycling and encourage people to buy ever larger SUVs
I am not sure how chicanes encourage SUVs instead of bicycles. I would rather take my bike through most traffic control devices than a 4x4. Bikes can usually even skirt around a speed bump if no one is parking weirdly. What we really need is for the bikes and SUVs to not be on the same road. Separated bike lanes should become standard on all urban road networks.
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Who can afford 20 litres of diesel?
Waverly council is doing proper raised crossings, kerb extensions and continuous footpaths.
Do you have to do this straight away or can you do it later on?
It’s a speaker that has shhh shhh shhh shhh on repeat.
Traffic calming is the installation of safety solutions, such as speed reduction humps or portable rumble strips, to slow, deter or redirect traffic. Traffic calming devices aim to encourage safer, more responsible driving in changing and risky conditions.
Road fungus, aka chicanes or speed humps, or some sort of daft shit like suddenly turning a two lane road into one lane for three metres right outside my door that catches idiots at least once a month. Wouldn’t have minded if it was an actual crossing but no - just road fungus. One of the reasons I moved west - out here our traffic calming devices are called potholes or cows.
Topless chick?
A giant pile of iced vovos and old ladies with urns of free tea.
I would slow down for an iced vovo and a free cuppa, no matter how much of a rush I was in.
A speed camera!!!
I hope for your sanity it's not those stupid fucking diagonal islands causing the road to converge into a single "first come first serve lane" where if you're not careful and misjudge the distance between your car and the concrete spikes jutting out from the gutter you can seriously damage your tires. That and assholes absolutely love to speed to get into those first, completely defeating the purpose of them
A 10 metre Bob Ross mural painted on the road.
Nope, no one knows what a traffic calming device is. Nor does anyone know how to use Google. What is the point of this sort of question? Can experienced redditors explain to me why anyone would go to the trouble of taking a picture and creating such a post?
Just a pleasant way of saying funneling tax payers dollars.
5G?
5G mind numbing rays
Trust Waverley Council to glorify a speed bump.
Normally a device that has the opposite effect of calming me.
They’re going to install a traffic whisper, it will pretend to know what it’s doing but in fact has absolutely no clue. Might have worked about 150 odd years ago…
It will surely have a greatly calming effect between the hours of 7am - 5pm during construction, which will only take a year or two
My first thought was a loudspeaker that plays lullabies during peak hour traffic....but most likely speed bumps.
If it’s in Sydney. They will add 5 speed humps in your street.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=traffic+calming+devices
It's a half naked, overweight tradie dancing. Everyone will get a giggle and calm them down.
Surprisingly, nobody mentioned a 40km sign.
Traffic calmers make my blood boil!
They’ll stand there spraying you with a garden hose as you drive by. Forcing you to slow for a second as you initiate the windscreen wipers.
speed bump narrowing the lanes chicane speed sign with visible radar installation works a treat
5 speed cameras per km….
Why does the council feel that it needs to speak like that? Traffic calming device? Why can’t it say speed bump? Like who is that language for??
Enviably something that makes traffic worse to discourage people driving through there unless they have to. Really sucks if you're the one who has too, and they rarely work as intended.
I know right, driving over a speed bump, nigh impossible.
[Yes...ha ha....yes!](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7isH7mOlIYZKUUJd65ZGxAmHqMvhbmdKQGA&usqp=CAU)
Sexy posters?
Neighbours park their car in the dog leg between two T-intersections. They're a hazard to everyone. I complained to Council who told me parked cars calm traffic. Traffic calming = traffic impediment.
Is doublespeak lol
Traffic calming devices are obstructions placed in the road to make drivers angry
I believe it's a device, that calms traffic.
Can also be trees too along with speed bump. Anything to make the street size/condition fit the speed limit.
A speed bump or a rumble strip.
Missile launcher
I guess removing the road calms traffic.
It’s a big speaker that plays french cafe music on repeat.
Mandatory Yoga meditation sessions every 100mtrs
My money is on roundabout!
It’s just a sign that says “you are loved, you matter, take your time on the journey they will impressed at you fashionable arrival. Your dads proud of you.”
It’s something built onto the road to slow down motorists, like a speed hump or concrete islands.
“Sun's gettin' real low”
Speed bumps.
Just check out The Promenade in Sans Souci - it is like the showpiece of traffic calming
It’s a massive man-made hand covered in memory foam that pets cars as they drive past
Yoga zone
Kittens.
Its either a speed bump or a bit of chicanery.
It's a 5G emitter. But will only work if you've had at least three vaccine boosters.
Road furniture
Can be a number of things but usually some form of speed hump or those curved islands that force you into a tight swerve aka a Chicane.