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Capisic Street
Capisic Street runs between outer Brighton
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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!
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 added. |
| 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 force! |
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. |
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.