USA: Boston to get 1,500 speed breakers to improve road safety

The installation of the speed humps will take place over the next three years.

According to reports, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is planning on installing speed humps across all eligible city streets, in an effort to dissuade speeding drivers and improve road safety.

The new "Safety Surge" program, with a $12 million budget, is said to have identified 400 miles of streets that are potentially eligible for speed humps. They will be split into 10 zones based on crash history and resident demographics. The installation of the speed humps will take place over the next three years. Around 1500 speed breakers will be installed over the course of this period.

Reports stated that the installation of the speed humps will be incorporated during the routine road revamping schedule. The "safety surge" program will also redesign intersections and update certain traffic signals as part of its plan. The goal of the redesign is said to be to eliminate poor visibility, simplify confusing intersections and better segment different types of road users.

However, not all streets will be eligible to get speed humps. Reports state that major thoroughfares or any road which has an MBTA bus route will be avoided.

The new program comes off the back of a successful pilot initiative. As part of the initiative, three streets were installed with speed humps in an effort to determine whether the communities liked them.

Source: CarScoops