Cardboard Kids Slow Traffic
We live in a quiet neighborhood filled with retirees and older families. Our house is situated on the corner of a cul-de-sac and it is a great neighborhood to live in. Except, that motorists decided they don’t like to sit at the lights on the highway by my home and instead use my street as a cut through.
Now we have a lot of traffic most of whom do not obey the 25 mph speed limit. We, as a neighborhood, have had meetings with the town council, had speed bumps installed and even begged for police to patrol our street. Some of those things helped, but none have been a solution.
We thought of buying a sign like this one to put at the end of our driveway, but never did. Then I came across a story of a man in Ohio who wanted to slow traffic down in his neighborhood also.
Mike Wood put cardboard children near the road by his home to slow down motorists. It worked, people even yelled at him to watch his kids so close to the road. One motorist even stopped after realizing the kids were not real and ordered one to slow traffic by his own home.
Mike originally made these realistic cardboard cut-outs to sell to grandparents. Since the media got a hold of the story, Wood said he is now getting calls from police departments and neighborhood associations across the country.
He now sells the cut-outs for $60.00.
I think I will buy one and see how it helps the traffic on my road.
Would you think twice about the speed you were driving if you saw a cut-out like this one? Do you think this is a good idea for parents who want to protect their children who are playing outside?
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August 15th, 2007 at 10:24 am
That is an awesome idea for slowing traffic. Just imagine how freaked someone could get if they ever accidentally ran one of these cardboards over when not paying attention to their driving.
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