As the number of cars on the road increased, they made their way into quieter neighborhoods, utilizing their streets as an alternative route to get to where they needed to go. This practice by motorists gave birth to the concept of traffic calming.

If one thinks about it, neighborhood streets should be a place where a family can take a stroll, children can play, and people can ride their bikes and play with their pets; all without having to worry about the risk of getting hit by a speeding car.

How do Car Stops Help?

After all, you shouldn't be speeding through a neighborhood street; this is what a main thoroughfare or highway is for. In fact, you most certainly can't play tag or take your dog for a stroll along the state intersection. Why can't that same condition apply to a neighborhood street? While the concept of traffic calming has been around only fairly recently, the tools for their implementation have been around for quite a long. One such tool for traffic calming is car stops.

Slow Traffic Down

These traffic control devices help slow traffic down by forcing a moving vehicle to reduce its speed in order to conveniently and safely pass over them. They can cause vehicles to slow down to speeds as low as 5 mph. As a traffic calming device, it is such a simple yet effective way to make sure that cars slow down.

They can be made from a number of materials, from concrete and asphalt to plastic and rubber, the latter of which are prefabricated. And while prefabricated car stops are considered for temporary use, these types of traffic control devices are being considered for more permanent situations.

Easy to Install

For one, a number of prefabricated car stops are made with compressed plastic which is a very durable material. Another factor is that they are easy to install. What this means is you don't need specialized labor to install these devices.

And what can be easily installed can be easily removed. If you need to make a major renovation to the road on which the car stops are installed, you need only to remove the device, store it away as you make those renovations, and reinstall them when you're done.

Conclusion

Another advantage that prefabricated car stops have over concrete or asphalt ones is that a number of them have pre-formed channels underneath, through which you can lay down pipes, cables, or hoses. You can certainly do this with the concrete or asphalt varieties but when these pipes or hoses need replacement, it becomes more of a hassle to replace or repair them.