(live here) – Residents of the Ramat Hen neighborhood in Haifa are warning that the removal of the speed bumps on Bat Hen Street endangers pedestrians and residents of the neighborhood, and are demanding that the municipality reinstate them as soon as possible.
Residents: "The speed bumps were removed without explanation"
For several years, residents of the Ramat Hen neighborhood enjoyed Bat Hen Street in the neighborhood, which was quiet and safe for them. What helped this significantly was the four speed bumps that were installed along the road. However, recently, without any satisfactory explanation, the speed bumps were removed and now the road has once again become a real danger to pedestrians and residents.
The old neighborhood is home to a large elderly population, including the "Pisgat-Chen" nursing home. Alongside the old residents, there are also young families with small children and teenagers.
Walkers and wheelchairs
Pedestrians in the neighborhood, including seniors using walkers and wheelchairs, as well as children running to play in parks and crossing the road frequently. The removal of speed bumps has caused a significant increase in vehicle speeds, which puts everyone at risk.
"Before the bumpers were installed, drivers were driving at alarming speeds here," says one resident. "Some exceeded 50 km/h, and that's on a street with parking lots on both sides and sharp turns. Any exit onto the road between parked cars could surprise a driver and cause a serious accident."
The installation of speed bumps in the past significantly reduced vehicle speeds, provided safety for pedestrians, and even contributed to the safety of drivers themselves. Now, after their removal, residents feel like they have gone back years – and feel helpless.
"We don't understand why they were removed. It's especially puzzling when in other places in Haifa the speed bumps were left in place. Here, in a place where they are so necessary, they were taken down?"
"We demand that the municipality restore the speed bumps immediately, before a disaster occurs."
Urgent appeal to Yona Yahav
The residents have already contacted the municipality and the mayor himself, with an urgent demand to restore the speed bumps, and are now awaiting an official response. Until then, they reiterate their warning: Every day that passes without a solution is life-threatening.
Haifa Municipality stated: ""The speed bumps were removed following complaints from residents of the neighborhood that they were being inconvenienced by their presence, and following speed measurements that were borderline. However, as a compromise, a speed bump will be installed before the crosswalk in front of the nursing home."
Speed bumps cause damage to buildings and infrastructure. Every time a vehicle passes over them, it is a blow of a ton times the height of the bumper. Multiply that by the number of vehicles passing on the street and you get a very large number. It is better to roughen the roads.
Yes, it's terrible. Cars enter the neighborhood as if they were going to a highway. Excessive speed. We urgently need to make speed bumps.
Speed bumps are not a solution, quite the opposite.
Eliminate speed bumps throughout the city
Address the problem not on the road.
Bad driver, even speed bumps won't help him or pedestrians.
Speed bumps are a peak lag concept.
Even on Yaffe Nof Street, we urgently need speed bumps. The people who come to the Louis Promenade are racing with upgraded cars and motorcycles that make explosions, a danger to life.
The problem is the height of the speed bumps, instead of something reasonable, they make them into bumps that hurt vehicles.
In addition to slowing down, other methods are possible, such as traffic circles, or brick lanes combined with asphalt.
The problem is that with us everything is black and white. Either a line that hits cars or nothing.
The problem throughout the city is with excessive speed bumps, sometimes abnormally numerous and of a high height, which simply gradually destroy the steering system and endanger drivers, even those who slow down in front of these harmful speed bumps. By the way, there are more sane speed bumps in Haifa that were recently made, for example on Hanna Senesh Street. Let them go there and learn how to make such speed bumps.
The problem in every city in Israel is with excessive speed bumps. Have a good week and a blessed one.
There is no harm if you drive according to the law and don't fly low, in a small neighborhood that is only one street long.
Just physically block the street for two hours a day, burn tires
Horeb?
Speed bumps caused damage to vehicles. They were very high. A gated neighborhood where most of the people who drive are residents only.
Drivers are the danger!
A speed limit sign of up to 30 km/h and speed cameras ==> This is what is needed in Ramat Hen. Ramat Hen should be declared a 30 km/h driving zone.
The dimensions of the disaster on the roads:
Since the beginning of the year: 65 deaths on the roads
Compared to 50 at the same point in time in 2024
And an increase of tens of percent in fatal accidents:
61 vs. 46 in 2024
Expected: 450 deaths, 5000 injuries in road accidents
We need more.
This is because of the stupidity of the municipalities, especially the municipality of Ashkelon. When they put in a speed bump, they put it in an excessive amount of time so that the whole car immediately flies off the road or they knock out the shock absorbers or the car takes a hit and oil spills on the road and the next car will have an accident. If they had made sensible speed bumps and not big ones, maybe there would be some sense in it. But the stupidity is rampant. Wait for a car to knock down the battery because of an excessive speed bump and it will catch fire. Maybe then they will understand. Small bumps are not big. Small. You understand the mind of a bird.
good evening,
If you are examining the issue of removing speed bumps, it is also worth raising the issue of the lack of speed bumps at the entrance to the neighborhood when vehicles enter it at high speeds from the main road from Nakhkin or International, thus endangering pedestrians crossing the road or vehicles exiting the parking lots of the houses.