We have two small boys, 2 & 3.5, and if those speed bumps were not in place, we would NOT have purchased that home. In fact in just the 2 homes across from us and 1 next door, there are a total of 9 children under the age of 7.
I understand those that like to speed and those driving low profile vehicles feel inconvienced. But imagine how inconvienced they would be after landing in prison for running over a small child while speeding through our neighborhood.
The new president of our HOA just circulated a memo, proposing a vote to have the speed bumps removed. I have informed him that the removal of these saftey devices without replacement with an equal or better device, in my view is Willful Endangerment of my children. A charge that is punishable in both civil and criminal court.

My townhome community has a through street and some want speedbumps and I just know they will put one right in front of my townhome and make we wobble over it every day as I leave and come home. That will get frustrating to the residents and not the passers through.

The people who like the speed bumps are the ones that live or walk on those streets. The folks who don’t like them are the ones that want to zip down the street, either passing through the neighborhood or even to their homes on a less-traveled street in the neighborhood — exactly the people that probably need to slow down. The passers-through are particularly a problem on streets that weren’t build to be through streets, and so aren’t particularly wide.

Which is why the decision should be largely left to the residents of the street in question — not the folks cutting through, and not even the folks that live one street over in the quiet cul de sac, but like to fly through the rest of the neighborhood.