Newark's plans to make Main Street safer for pedestrians might hit their own speed bump from the city's main fire and EMS ...

There are around 1,000 speed humps on 162 neighborhood roads ... running across a road or parking lot, most often found in apartment complexes and bigger retail or shopping stores or strip malls.

Residents balked at a small traffic circle at Greenlawn Avenue and Wall Street near Potawatomi Park, saying it may worsen ...

They had also long sought speed bumps to slow down cars on the street ... San Francisco currently uses this technique on some parking lanes across the Wiggle, Fell Street and at the parking lot of St.

McDermott said he doesn't see a Main Street with speed bumps in the long term. Rather, he sees a narrow street with buried power lines and no on-street parking, with an off-street parking garage.