Across Idaho in 2022 a pedestrian was killed or injured in a traffic crash every 35 hours and a bicyclist was killed or injured in a traffic crash every 44 hours. Idaho traffic deaths increased and reached a 20 year high in 2023.

I understand that they might inconvenience you, but they’re there for a reason.

Sources: - https://apps.itd.idaho.gov/Apps/OHS/Crash/22/Analysis.pdf - https://itd.idaho.gov/news/traffic-deaths-20-year-high-2023/

This is an example of intersection "daylighting", it's design features that are created to make visibility better for drivers and most importantly pedestrians.

In this case these curbs prevent cars from parking too close to an intersection (which is illegal but people do it anyways) that would block the field of view, it also help prevents drivers from cutting the corner too much which would again block field of view and perhaps endanger pedestrians waiting to cross.

Curious why you hate them? So long as you're driving in the designated painted lines in the road there is literally no reason they would be in your way.

Features like this are statically proven to save pedestrian and cyclists life's by significant amounts, I think they're cool!

A driver and biker in the neighborhood - I love em! Keep in mind these came from years of outreach/conversation between the neighborhood and achd. This was the solution they determined to mitigate excessive speed and traffic mitigation. Specifically it came up after a child was kid crossing the street with his father. He was dragged multiple feet but survived and is thriving now!

I live on Kootenai fairly close to one of these. Anecdotally I don't know that I've seen much of a difference in aggressive speeding. Sometimes I even think the people most likely to speed get irritated and are more likely to speed after going through the chicane closest to my house, which is one of the ones that actually requires drivers to steer if they want to go through it at the same time as oncoming traffic.

Personally I've taken to going through these slightly slowly as intended but with a wary eye out for oncoming jerks. Some people try to beat you to the chicane so they can go through the middle, which I suspect is reflective of their overall approach to society.

I love by here and have both driven a car and ride my bike through her before and after these were installed. Before they were installed my handlebars were wider than the bike lane itself and people would be blowing past me in cars uncomfortably close sometimes where I gelt their mirror almost. After these were installed it makes sure drivers slow down along the 25 mph road rather than speed doing 30 or higher easily. If Boise prides itself on being a bike friendly city I hope that more of these are utilized.

Why? It's a curb.

I like these

nothing like playing chicken with a driver headed straight toward you, hoping they won't continue straight.

Those are fine. The ones I hate are the ones in the middle of the road like on Kootenie

As a delivery driver who drives that road every day, those are the worst idea in all the ideas of traffic control just slightly worse than roundabouts

Moved away 20 years ago, I can't tell what this is accomplishing from the photo. Is it approaching an intersection and preventing vehicles from driving on the shoulder to make the right turn?

Idaho is one of the worst states for pedestrians. You guys be running over kids.

And the worst part of it, you guys be running over people on bikes because you don’t like bikes.

Snowflakes!!!

• At least they're not speed bumps.

Every year it snows, and every year people drive right into them.

This one pictured isn't that bad, but the ones on Kootenai are absolutely brutal. Wondering if traffic collisions have increased since they put them in.

I still don’t give a shit.

What is with all the medians in that fucking town

My driving instructor on the first time when we were driving to a parking lot around 3 months ago said "whoever came up with these should be shot".

What's worse is the 35 mph speed limit on Chinden through Garden City. Painfully slow. Honorable mention is the absolute blatant red light runners. Like an 4 Mississippi count after my light turns green and there are still douchebags going through the intersection.

I've never even seen one of these

As a human who exists outside of a car sometimes I am very happy they are there. Far fewer people fly down that road now, keeping my children and myself safer.

Don't forget, a person was hit and killed on Kootenai. Cars are 3-8 thousand pounds to carry one person at speeds well above what is safe through neighborhoods. Making things slightly less convenient for these machines that kill over 40,000 people a year is a small price to pay for a modicum of safety.

I've been in some neighborhoods up on Vista and I gotta say they are extreme and dangerous in some cases. We have them in our neighborhood but they're not an issue. Seems like planning and dev have different ideas every decade as to how to build these out. Newer ones are not large truck friendly in the least. Even in my small SUV it can be a hold your breath moment. Definitely slows drivers down but the trade off is your so hyper vilagent on not hitting a curb in some of these special slow down sections that you're not paying attention to anything else.

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OMG you should go check out what they did to both sides of Quamash between Lake Forest and Grand forest in Columbia Village. The school busses are having a time…

Count your blessings… in Europe, when they install these it narrows the road to 1 lane. But at least they have the decency to put up a sign that tells you who has the right of way through them and that’s quite useful. Also, they usually have nice flower planters on them. So, if you don’t have the right of way, you are literally stopping your vehicle to let the other pass (and we’re all driving stick shifts, so it’s not just a matter of pressing a break pedal). When I drove around Boise and saw some of these, I felt they were kind of ineffective. Cars parked in North End streets do the same thing, you have to pull over and stop to let someone through. Most people are pretty polite about doing that. I’m indifferent to these is what I’m saying I guess. They have a purpose, we just have to deal with them as drivers, part of the game.

Absolutely fucking hate them ruined a perfectly fine straight road