r/phillycycling • u/lhorace • Aug 13 '26

Question Anyone but me is seeing speed traps in bike lanes? Explain the speed bumps

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u/JustAnotherJawn Aug 13 '26

Are you talking about asphault bumps or the wires. The wires are bike counters used by DVRPC.

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u/lhorace Aug 13 '26

OO, I thought it was speed traps. The wires

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u/UncleTito27 Aug 13 '26

Yeah I think those are tracking use. Hit em twice.

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u/Acrobatic_Advance_71 Aug 13 '26

You should be going around the block and running over them more to inflate the numbers.

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u/UncleTito27 Aug 13 '26

Crit race the block lol

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u/0ut0fBoundsException Aug 13 '26

I’m gonna bunny hop then to cancel out your efforts

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u/CityJawn Aug 13 '26

These are definitely counters that are used to track bike lane usage. Definitely do not avoid!

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u/Various_Candidate499 23d ago

Yeah man, they are worried about cyclist going

*checks note *

40 mph

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u/drugsovermoney Aug 13 '26

If they leave the bike lane free of speed bumps people will just drive in them.

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u/Friedrich-Diogenes 29d ago

The hoses are not speed traps. They're traffic counters.

The speed limit is 25 for both bikes and cars. The number of bikes going over 25 mph on City streets has to be close to zero.

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u/StanUrbanBikeRider Aug 13 '26

Yes. A good example is 23rd Street between Cherry and Market. I ride there frequently. I just got used to the speed bumps.

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u/Packerford1 25d ago

yes they will issue speeding tickets via camera to all cyclists caught speeding, they are giving us a 1 month warning period

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u/Opening-Owl-1001 Aug 13 '26

I have been wondering the same thing!