A month or so ago, my neighbors and I were elated to see the asphalt trucks on Bernie Drive in the Lincoln area. Seems like we have waited forever for the needed repairs. You can imagine our surprise the next day, all of us wondering why they put the asphalt in big piles, instead of spreading it evenly over the needed surface.
These are not speed bumps, they are massive piles of asphalt that are brutal on the suspension of our automobiles, even at 10 mph or 15 mph. We all believe that the engineers at the city of Vancouver who dreamed up these traffic-calming devices are being subsidized by the front-end repair and alignment shops in the Vancouver area.
The drive from the top of the hill is only approximately four blocks to Lincoln; two would have been sufficient, it is three-tenths of a mile in distance. But oh no, they had to do six. Count them — six.
The downside is that now much of the traffic turns right on Northeast 65th at the top of the hill, and comes through our neighborhood — 65th, Dogwood, Cherry Street — and in a hurry because they wanted to avoid the bumps.
