This isn't exactly related to City Hall, but as someone who lives and works near Fish Hatchery and saw the police officer with his radar gun near James C. Wright Middle School on my way to the Board of Estimates meeting last night, I wanted to throw my two cents in on the speed trap set up yesterday.

I'm not against speed traps, particularly near schools, but I think it's evident from the number of times I've seen a police officer or a police car set up near Wright Middle School that something more probably should be done about speeding on Fish Hatchery Road. In particular, Fish Hatchery Road is a wide, four-lane road with a relatively low speed limit, making it extremely conducive to speeding -- I'm not a big speeder at all, and I can tell from driving on the road every day that my speed is much more likely to creep up on this street than almost anywhere else in the city.

Also, from attending various city and safety-related meetings, I know there are more ways to reduce speeding than just issuing tickets -- in particular, traffic-calming measures like allowing more street parking, throwing in a median, widening sidewalks, adding speed bumps/humps (which I hate, but they work), just to name a few, all work to help reduce speed on streets like Fish Hatchery. If the city is committed to keeping a 30 mile-per-hour speed limit on the road, what I would like to see are more creative ways to reduce speeding that in some ways is not entirely the fault of drivers.

What do you think? Do you feel like Fish Hatchery is any harder to maintain the speed limit on? What other streets could use traffic-calming measures?