Iroquois

These were the first speed bumps in the city, built during the 70′s, so people would not try to cut out of the Stadium/Packard intersection – they hadn’t got it quite right, and the “humps” were overly high – we could hear people thwacking the bottoms of their cars until everyone got used to them and started going 5 mph.

Our glorious speedbumps!

Iroquois is a fantastic street, but without those bumps it’s a dangerous speedway.

We’re all so grateful they’re coming back.

Well, the consensus among current Iroquois residents was that the city had just about gotten it right — during the recent work there was much in the way of oral history from long-time neighbors about previous traffic calming measures (to use a likely anachronism) before the bumps were built and the ineffectiveness of same. Iroquois seems to do a brisk enough business as Stadium’s right-turn lane during rush hour even with the humps.

Why doesn’t Ann Arbor think about making some streets like this either courts or one way? (the opposite way obviously)

There are any number of streets around Ann Arbor that get hit in this manner due to poor neighborhood design, but actions to fix them are slow at best.

Now how do we go about getting them on Pine Valley? Since they’ve put them in on King George, all of the Packard-to-Eisenhower traffic comes our way. The upcoming Jewett bumps will likely make it even worse.