Reply #10: There are better ways to do it. [View All]

We had a speeding issue on a few bike paths near my home a number of years ago. The county dealt with it by placing a few rows of Botts Dots in sideways chevrons across the bike trail. Bikers had two choices: Hit the dots at speed and risk rattled teeth and bent rims, or slow down enough to navigate the dot-free V shaped paths between the chevrons. They were tapered and short enough that they didn't present a trip hazard to pedestrians either.

The beautiful thing is that the trails have a 15MPH speed limit for bikes, and the V's were pitched just right so that a bike doing that speed could navigate them without slowing down at all. Bikers complaining about the dots were either speeding or not paying attention, and were thus ignored.