AIBU to wonder why people speed in cul-de-sacs?

[BunBubs]

Not that you should speed anywhere let alone a residential street but I'm wondering why people constantly speed in and out of my street when it's small and has a dead end. You can't really speed out either because there's a busy main road when you leave it and you always have to wait for an opening which (unless you want your vehicle smashed into bits) There's also often farm vehicles moving from one side of the fields to the other.

Some of the culprits live here so know the layout. WTF do they get out of it and where are they going in such a hurry?

It drives me crazy! I live in a short cul de sac and people still do it and it slopes downward. I’m waiting for the day it’s wet and someone doesn’t stop and ploughs into a brick wall!

Yup, we've got one of these. She lives at the top of the cul de sac (about 20m away) - roars down in her 4WD. We've actually got a speed ramp outside our house and she bounces over it. Delivery drivers are the same. Must really bugger up their suspension! Kids, dogs, cats, elderly people around - no consideration for them.

Two reasons. One, I can't remember the last time I saw a speed camera in a cul-de-sac, so that's one deterrent missing. Two, familiarity. The better someone knows a street the safer they feel flooring it. They've never crashed before, so their (misplaced) logic tells them they're less likely to crash there in future, so they take more risks.

Probably partly the busy main road causing it as people put their foot down in relief after a period of frustration. We live off a main road that has a ridiculous number of poorly timed traffic lights along it (I say that as a life long pedestrian!) You can end up having to stop for longish periods 7 or 8 times over half a mile, not including letting other cars enter from side roads, people crossing at numerous zebra crossings etc. It's very noticeable how many people put their foot down between lights and at the end of the stretch where there's a long hill with no lights. Also cars going through red lights, including over crossings, because they were tailgating in an attempt to beat the light.

So imo frustration/ relief and as Morning Starling says, the 'well I've never crashed here before' fallacy.

Yes we have this too - we are near two primary schools (infants and juniors) so have a lot of parents whizzing up and down looking for parking spaces. They don't seem to give a fig that residents and other people with kids will be walking up and down. I do wonder if one will go straight into my neighbour's back garden which butts up against the end of the road one day!