Talk:Speed bump

message: At the time of this writing, the article Sleeping policeman contains the following text:
:"A Sleeping policeman is a British term for a speed bump.
:This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it."
This took five edits. This has got to be some low-productivity record.
(Just to make sure, I am not mocking the good men and women who took the time to edit this article, including the removal of a vandalism. I am mocking the world in general. The world, you see, can't hit me.)
-Itai 19:18, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Miscellaneous

message: It seems like this is a specific example of traffic_calming, or at least relates to that also and should get a link of some kind. -- M0llusk 03:56, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a link in the first line of the article! Or do you think it needs a See Also section? Softgrow 04:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to Traffic Calming? 

message: When I go to Jellystone Park (one of the real Jellystone Parks) with my aunt, I get in a golf cart with her, and she floors the accelerator and drives over every pothole and bump, including speed bumps, to make a really bumpy ride. When one of the park workers or the other members of my family are near, she acts like she's driving normally. It's really, really fun, no sarcasm.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CE62:8430:D00E:2F84:5383:9D31 (talk) 18:25, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't know what to write as the title. 

message: I find both theories of the speed bumps first use unlikely to be true progenitors to the speed bumps we know now. They may have been used independently in both the instances which are covered by the anecdotes, but I fail to see a clear connexion between either of them, and modern traffic control. For what it is worth, the first occurences of the term "speed bump" that the OED records, are from the latter half of the 1970's. -- Cimon avaro; on a pogostick. 17:36, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anecdotal origins. 

message: I was the one who found and quoted the two NYT stories regarding the Chatham, NJ speed bumps. Mareino removed the quote from the second article, presumably because s/he could not find the story. Please check again -- it is titled "Bumps" Check Autos, and can be found on p. 20 of the 4/24/1906 Times. I think the excerpt deserves to be restored because it describes the animated reactions of drivers and onlookers to this never-before-seen device. --MikeMiscione 08:24, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Here Is Cite for the (Removed) Second NY Times Story 

message: Shouldn't the other uses section be in a disambiguation page? Where it is right now, no person who is not specifically interested in the roadway meaning of speed hump would see the other uses. Nova SS 18:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it should. This page should be moved to "Speed bump (road)" or similar and a new disambiguation page created. Softgrow 21:10, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved the other uses to a disambiguation page. The most common meaning is the bump on a road so I've left this page as the main article with a pointer to a disambigution page. Softgrow 23:09, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other uses section? 

message: Shouldn't Raised Crosswalks be explicitly described as a variant of the speed bump?
Seanxr 15:25, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I consider it a variant.--Jusjih 15:29, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Raised Crosswalks

message: I've just come across three articles (with a more North American focus) that cover very similar ground to speed bump:
* Speed Hump
* Speed cushion
* Speed table
It appears as though much of the content in this article belongs there or alternatively a main "Vertical deflection device used on roadways used to reduce speed" article is needed to make them all linked. Alex Sims 05:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So long as you don't try to say that they're all the same thing!  Us road geeks will have your head for that. :)  Actually, I do agree that the similarities between them could merit consideration for a general article which deals with each specifically, then links them up with a comparison of advantages to disadvantages.  First question: any other thoughts?  Second question: anyone willing to undertake this endeavor?  --Thisisbossi 05:18, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd support a general article along the lines you suggest - "Vertical deflection traffic calming devices" or similar, with a section on each type with their respective applications, benefits, disbenefits, etc.  It could be paired with a "Horizontal deflection traffic calming devices" article covering kerb extensions, chicanes and associated ideas. -- de Facto (talk). 09:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a Navigational template to join them together. Alex Sims 02:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with other articles?

message: We need to review this article thoroughly to make sure that it is specifically regarding speed bump and not speed humps or speed tables, or speed cushions.  Some comparing and contrasting is OK, but there are several portions within this article which I suspect is not particularly relevant to speed bumps.  I'll try and review this whenever I get a chance, but I wouldn't mind if others beat me to it. Of course, this bars any further decision on the above merge recommendation.  Sláinte! --Bossi (talk ;; contribs) 22:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bump, Hump, Table, and Cushion

message: Alex Sims and IP users: take your bickering here, please, and stop with the reversions.  Now as far as the info being added by the IPs is concerned, I only request that the information be cleaned up (spelling, grammar, punctuation... it's horrid!), relocated out of the intro and into the appropriate sections, and its sentences combined to form more coherent paragraphs.  I'll stay out of the whole is it POV or not issue -- that's for you all to discuss here. --Bossi (talk • gallery • contrib) 22:42, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit war

message: Why does this section exist, as is, seeing as none of the "traffic calming" variants listed are actually what amounts to a "speed bump"? - -Freedom4all (talk) 18:02, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Regarding "Speed Humps in the U.K."

message: The article as currently written seems to be primarily about why speed bumps are bad for you, your car, and Mother Teresa, and then proposes a "solution" available for a reasonable price at a dealer near you!  150.148.0.27 (talk) 22:31, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow.... There's an obvious difference between the subject of this article and NAMBLA or Hitler. Supporters of either the later pretty much amount to an extreme fringe of society which is reflected in the RS. This clearly isn't the case for speed humps otherwise they wouldn't be so common throughout the world nor a fair amount of research on the benefits and disadvantages. Funnily enough you seemed to partially acknowledge this with your mention of YIMBY. WP:Cherry picking sources to present support for speed humps as an extreme and unusual view is indeed a NPOV violation just as presenting as cherry picking sources to present a fringe positive iew on Hitler or NAMBLA is. Nil Einne (talk) 20:35, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV flag

message: In the "possible advances" section, there is a claim of a young schoolboy inventing an electricity-generating speed bump with a reference to "islamonline.net". The whole section looks somewhat suspicious to me - I've googled for the inventor name and the only two results shown is an article in islamonline.net (no results from other websites) and this wikipedia article. Another thing that makes be doubt of accuracy and relevance of info in this section, is that almost two months earlier there was an announcement(cited by numerous news sites) of a similar system for which the working prototype is already under implementation. I think this passage is a kind of original research and show be removed. What do you think? --Zigmar (talk) 10:40, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The passage is word for word directly from the linked reference. Will be removed as copyvio. DarkAudit (talk) 17:55, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Advances 

message: Anyone care to put an etymological source for the "sleeping policeman" term? Bennylin (talk) 11:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a different traffic management device formerly common in Australia,   and known there as a silent cop.   The name of this comes from the old practice of having police officers standing in the middle of an intersection directing traffic.  So,  standing and waving,  but not lying down or sleeping on the job.   The wikipedia entry for silent cop  claims that these round yellow knobs were also called "sleeping policemen",  although it is a completely different device to a "speed hump/bump".   I am doubtful,  I have never heard the expression "sleeping policeman" used in Australia. Lathamibird (talk) 10:41, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sleeping ol' policeman 

message: At risk of upsetting what I'm sure was a very contentiously-arrived-at compromise, I feel the need to point out that the name "Vertical deflection traffic calming device" enjoys a currency in popular use effectively indistinguishable from non-existence.
This is an article on various kinds of speed bumps. Call it that, or be preposterous.
174.89.175.59 (talk) 16:49, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an article on various speed-controlling measures, of which speed bumps are one. I agree that the title is cumbersome, but it covers the field. bd2412 T 17:13, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 

message: This is strangely the opposite of NIMBY. A really interesting issue with these, and speed limits in general, is that pretty much everybody...
*demands them near their own home
*opposes them everywhere else
Thus the devices are undesirable, but it's always the locals who are in control. The devices would go away if we could come to some sort of agreement: you get rid of yours, and I'll get rid of mine.
I'm not sure to call this. Surely it has a name, like NIMBY and Tragedy of the Commons. (maybe "Yes In My Backyard") The article ought to say something about this issue, using whatever term is standard.
50.89.71.42 (talk) 03:00, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  strange opposite of [[NIMBY]] 

message: Obviously, there's a lot of trouble over the years with this article.
=== Repetitive Iterations === 
The North American and British systems of traffic management, although contemporaneous, have basic differences that range from speed measurement to sizes of vehicle to what side of the road is used (at right). These differences cause difficulties in the article and, though factual, interrupt the flow and cause several redundancies. For example, the discussion of the disadvantages of speed bumps lists a North American example and then a British example where most of the same points are repeated. When you combine that repetition with the subsequent discussion on speed humps (...do I have to say it?), the repetition only gets worse. Last, we have a section that, out of the blue, brings in the UK. 
=== Restructuring ===
I suggest simplifying the article to address the topic from a generalized format describing speed bumps, speed humps, and speed tables, and their key differences in a short paragraph and then bring in national or continental terminologies (sleeping policemen, etc.). Criticisms are worthy of their own section with a surmised list of critical points against the different options. It really doesn't have to be as painful as the present revision, does it? --Srwalden (talk) 05:40, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Continental Differences Causing Repetitions 

message: I suggest simplifying the article to address the topic from a generalized format describing speed bumps, speed humps, and speed tables, and their key differences in a short paragraph and then bring in national or continental terminologies (sleeping policemen, etc.). Criticisms are worthy of their own section with a surmised list of critical points against the different options. It really doesn't have to be as painful as the present revision, does it? --Srwalden (talk) 05:40, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructuring 

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message: The history section jumps from before 1910 to Compton.  It seems to say the speed bump was invented in the beginning of the century and then it was invented later.  This is at best confusing. 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:1D92:A114:182A:877B (talk) 21:47, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History