BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – – Citizens in Buffalo's Kaisertown neighborhood have actually been attempting to get speed humps on their street, but when their efforts struck an obstruction they made a call to Call 4 Action.

The issue over the speed hump has pitted some residents against others, with a former elected official associated with the controversy.

For many years, the Suchocki household of Fenton Street has wanted a speed hump near their home. There are other speed humps on Fenton, however farther up and down the street.

" We have actually seen school buses speeding on this street, trucks, cars, they like to cut down this street very typically, ATV's, we do require the speed humps, we believe in it," said Linda Suchocki, "Our dog was struck by a vehicle years back, someone came around truly quickly, our pet dog had seen our next-door neighbor and she just called him and he ran over and got struck by that car."

After doing a study, Buffalo's Department of Public Works recognized the speed bulge would go on Fenton Street, ideal outside the home of former Common Council President Rich Fontana. News 4 called Fontana - - he said he would not do an on-camera interview, but Fontana informs us that as a real estate agent, he has concerns on how the speed bulge would look and that it could potentially cheapen his house.

He also explains that according to information flowed by the City of Buffalo, speed humps are usually set up 200 feet from a crossway. Fontana states the speed hump that would go outside his home, would have to do with 100 feet from a crossway.

Buffalo DPW Commissioner Nate Marton says there's no specific distance that teams have to follow which general reaction to the speed hump has been blended.

" When we run into that we actually have some interaction and some backward and forward conversation with those homeowners and we try to an area somewhat moved north or south, west or east depending upon what the street is," Marton said.

The Suchocki's want the speed hump where it at first was prepared for.

Given that we started having a look into the concern, Fontana states he wishes to be a good neighbor and will let engineers choose where it goes.

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" The citizens on that street, that portion of the street, are not opposing where we marked it at this point in time, so we'll do that install kind of where our specialist believed it was best for that street," Marton said.

Marton states with less opposition to this speed bulge, it will in truth enter this area. News 4 has actually not gotten an exact date on when that's going to happen, it will take place soon and setup takes numerous days to do. Marton says the expense of installing a speed hump is about $2,000.

Here is more details about the City of Buffalo's Slow Streets program.

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