‘Traffic Calming Devices:’ City Seeing Increase In Demand For Speed Humps

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – It’s a term you may have not heard before but it’s one the City of Pittsburgh is using in order to address the problem of speeding.“Traffic Calming Devices.”Better known as speed humps.They are rising out of more and more streets in Pittsburgh. Last year, they were put in along Beechwood Boulevard and drivers were treating the street like an obstacle course, swerving into bike lanes in an attempt to avoid them altogether.It wasn’t just one