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Capisic Street
Capisic Street runs between outer Brighton
Avenue and Stevens Avenue. It's largely a
residential area, but has The
Breakwater School, a private elementary
school, at the junction of Brighton and Capisic.
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What is notable about it is that it has four
more speed tables on it, added illegally after
the Traffic Calming Ordinance was enacted,
and after a set of roundabouts was installed
that lasted just three
weeks! Teenagers were WHAPPING through the stanchions in their
cars, which the locals found disconcerting,
so the stanchions were cut down to half their
original size, then removed altogether.
Towards its eastern end it also has a large culvert under it that
drains Capisic Pond.
Nothing strange about that, except that an engineering mistake
when it was constructed
left a large hump in the road over the culvert, as the
engineers forgot to take into account
the diameter of the culvert. That hump visually covers
up the speed table that lies just
beyond it if you are coming in from the West, so it's a good
one-two bounce when you
travel that section!
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August
2002: This actually is arted. I got there after the poles had
been ripped out or removed, but they are in their original
positions.
This is about what you would see coming
into one of the roundabouts. It was quite the thing at night in
headlights.
Below is the same photo without the poles
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A
lot of people were hitting the small concrete "bumps" that
necked the whole round down. |
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This is one of the concrete pads. The bases
have been moved off the butyl adhesive, which takes a LOT of
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One of the bases, cracked. I called Safe-Hit for some
information on the durability of these bases, and was told that they hit these
constructions 200+ times in testing, with no problems. |
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July 24, 2002
This is after a week or so of use.
The stanchions took a beating from the start. |
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July 24, 2002 A
little old lady almost had a head-on collision here when she
came out of the street at right and wanting to turn right, went
around
this
side of the circle, turning right into the oncoming lane.
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Jan 2013: Capisic was re-topped along it's whole length in 2012, so the
tables which were about 3" are now about 2" high, with a nice soft
transition....almost not there. Nice to see. There is no evidence of the
circles at all anymore, and the whole project is pretty much moribund.
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