RUMBLE STRIPS

rumble strips: translation

(RUM.bul strips)

n.

Grooves etched into a highway surface and designed to emit a loud rumble when a car drives over them.

A double-fine zone for speeding, rumble strips to wake up sleepy drivers and additional passing lanes have been in place since 1995, when 14 people died on the same portion of the highway.

— Sally Ann Connell, " 'Blood Alley' Lives Up to Its Name," Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1999

Many States, such as Michigan, have installed "rumble strips" at key areas by cutting grooves in the concrete surface of major highways.This is said to cause complaints in some areas from residents who live nearby and can hear the rumble, but says one official. "They do wake up the driver."

— "Ideas that are saving lives," U.S. News & World Report, February 9, 1976

contraflow lane

mobile speed bump

naked street

placemaking

sleeping policeman

speed hump

spillback

street furniture

traffic-calming device

zipper merge

Cars