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Austin, TX, now uses only 22-foot tables after experience with both tables and standard humps. Howard County, MD, favors Seminole County tables, except where limited sight distances demand lower speeds. The shift from humps to longer speed tables is, in part, to accommodate other public agencies. Austin, Gwinnett County, and Portland are responding to the preferences of their fire departments (see chapter 7, “Emergency Response and Other Agency Concerns”). The shift could also represent attempts to move beyond local streets to collectors and even arterials, where volumes and speeds are too high for standard humps.
Dayton, OH) tion around a center island (which also limits speed), they calm traffic. Roundabouts are to neighborhood traffic circles what long speed tables are to 12-foot humps— essentially the same geometric feature adapted to higher speeds and higher volumes. 23). With a modern roundabout, approaching traffic must wait for a gap in the traffic flow before entering the intersection; in contrast, traffic enters an old-fashioned traffic circle at high speeds and then must merge and weave, a more hazardous operation.
The shift could also represent attempts to move beyond local streets to collectors and even arterials, where volumes and speeds are too high for standard humps. ITE guidelines limit 12foot humps to local streets with posted speed limits of 30 mph or less. In Portland, only 22-foot tables (with a 3inch height) are even considered for use on collector streets. A third reason for the shift to speed tables is their ability, where appropriately marked and extended from curb to curb, to serve as raised crosswalks.