Genius!

In order for HPD* to gather data on the speeds of vehicles on the 500 block of State Street for the past week or so, they had to hammer four heavy duty nails into the asphalt to secure the pair of rubber lines running across the street.  Our streets are being compromised with nails and nail holes so that HPD can gather speed data for streets on which it never enforces the speed limit.  This has been going on for years. 

Of course, nails don't usually hold up very well in pavement, so it's no surprise that one of the four nails came loose recently and is probably floating around in the street or already in someone's car tire.  The area at the end of the rubber lines on the north side of the street is still a parking space -- with two (now one) poorly secured, exposed nail heads sticking out of the pavement where a car might park or drive over to park nearby.  I don't see a cone on that side preventing anyone from parking there, do you?  No, you don't, because the only cone that was left behind after installation is located on the other side of the street.

*Though I have seen the vehicle speed contraption on several streets over the past few years, I have never actually seen it being installed.  I can't imagine that anyone but HPD would be using the gathered speed data, even if DPW installs the contraption.