Is being reactionary helpful in this situation?

Recently there was a hit and run in our town. As always the city is getting reactionary and will install a new speed bump prior to the intersection. This is just the latest example over the past five years there are several such examples.

One an overpass was installed in the highway and one of the smallers exits was deadended meaning extra travel of about five miles to compensate because one woman was killed trying to cross the highway. At night I believe she was drunk.

Another incident happened when a mother was overmedicated on various pills for pain management and she ran over some kids when she was picking up her own children. This was particularly brutal because after hitting them she backed over them. Who knows what she was thinking.

As a result they speed bumped the entire neighborhood which is sprawling and put in these pathetic roundabouts that are so small a car can barely make it around without going off the pavement as well as painting shadow kids on the road that 9 months out of the year are covered in snow and ice.

This particular situation was an access road for a movie theater a few fast-food restaurants and so forth that lead to a main throughfare and cross road leads to a neighborhood of row duplexes, I.e. children. This neighborhood is has no parking but street parking and barely room for that. It can be difficult to see around the vehicles and shrubs. The adjacent lot is vacant. My idea though it probably couldn’t be funded by the city though perhaps there is a way to do this through special funding. Is to buy the vacant lot and make it a parking lot for the vehicles. There would have to be a electricity installed for the plugins but in the landlords got together and chipped in they could fund it I’d the city deemed it a safety issue. I know I passed on renting units in the area several times because there was no parking. So this would be in their best interest seemingly.

Make no mistake I think the accidents mentioned above are tragic and sad. But accidents do happen and I think being this reactionary is unhelpful and costs the city money. And really other then the overpass all of it was shoddy work. The over pass really kills me even though I only occasionally am in the area because it costs time gas and I fail to see how it alleviated the problem. If it was indeed a problem because there was only one casualty in the area in the past ten years at least.

Side note they don’t always scrape the roads to the pavement esp on side roads so speed bumps in the winter unless giant just become flat.

Are there better solutions? Or do you think these speed bumps are worth it. Or maybe big breath we should just acknowledge that no matter what we do accidents do happen and try to help the victims and their families and move on? Where do you stand?