'They need to slow the f*** down.' And they are. Cleveland speed tables cutting down on crashes.

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News 5 continues to Follow-Through on the stories impacting your community.We’ve covered the extensive installation of speed tables across the City of Cleveland.RELATED: Cleveland expands speed table program to enhance road safetyLeaders and residents fought for them in high-traffic, high-speed areas, all to slow down and deter dangerous drivers.The program is now entering a new era.

Public Works selected that neighborhood because it's a high pedestrian spot with plenty of businesses, a medium-traffic volume street with no more than 4,000 cars per day, in a 25-mile-per-hour speed limit zone.'We try to keep them at a regular rhythm so that drivers, as they encounter them don't have incentive to speed up in between—hit the gas, hit the brakes,' Calley Mersmann, City of Cleveland Senior Strategist for Transit and Mobility, said.

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