If it does, back to the drawing board. This strategy should be applied in particular to various traffic calming schemes. At Veale Road, the idea was to lay down rough pavement to alert drivers of danger, something like the rumble strips on road edges that warn the drowsy they are wandering off the pavement. Not a bad idea, but rumble strips and patches make noise outside the vehicle as well as inside it. And that's what got them into trouble with people who live near the intersection.
Cars crossing the rumble patch make an loud, irritating sound.
So the patch is being torn up and replaced with smooth asphalt. Now DelDOT and the Harvey Road Traffic Calming Committee are casting about for an alternative.