⚠️ Violating the ADA. Delaying Emergency Response. Making Our Streets More Dangerous.

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What This Is About:

In 2023, the Town of Farragut approved the installation of speed bumps on Sonja Drive and Admiral Road—despite serious safety hazards, legal concerns, and voting irregularities raised by residents.

These Speed Bumps:

• 🚑 Delay emergency medical services (EMS) response time
• Require EMS vehicles to stop at every bump
• ♿ Discriminate and violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (§35.151)
• Were approved through unfair and manipulated voting procedures
• Put children, drivers, and disabled residents at daily risk

Real Hazards. Real Harm. Real Incidents. Real Accidents.

• 📍 Dangerously located just beyond the crest of the blind hill near 11221 Sonja Drive
• 📛 Represent willful gross negligence
• 🚑 EMS delay: My disabled grandson’s ambulance was delayed at 6 speed bumps during a seizure
• ♿ Disability impact: These bumps cause physical injury to disabled drivers and violate federal design standards
• 🎥 Documented danger: Reckless drivers, a demolished brick mailbox, mid-bump passing, weapons brandished, and children “jumping” bumps — all caught on video

Most drivers have also realized that crossing the double yellow line and straddling the bumps at higher speeds reduces discomfort.

We personally witnessed a dump truck strike and demolish a brick mailbox near 11133 Sonja Drive — the same location where children are regularly seen “jumping” the bump with scooters. The driver briefly stopped, then fled the scene. This highlights just how narrow and hazardous Sonja Drive and Admiral Road are for these types of obstructions.

These hazards are not hypothetical — they are real, and they represent a growing liability for the Town of Farragut that taxpayers will ultimately be responsible for.

What We’re Asking

Town of Farragut officials continue to mislead Farragut residents by claiming that emergency vehicles can traverse speed bumps without having to stop. This is false.

On April 15, 2024, and again on February 20, 2025, EMS personnel confirmed that emergency vehicles must come to a complete stop at each bump.

During my grandson’s seizure on February 20, EMS was delayed at three speed bumps on Sonja Drive and three more on Admiral Road en route to the hospital. These weren’t delays of seconds — every moment mattered. This same seizure response protocol remains in place for all future emergencies. The risk is ongoing and potentially life-threatening.

EMS crews themselves have expressed concern that these speed bumps are negatively impacting response times and putting lives in jeopardy.

Remove these dangerous speed bumps immediately.

Your life — or your child’s — may be the one EMS can’t reach in time because they’re stuck at the other end of Sonja Drive at a speed bump.

We are not against safe streets. We are against discrimination, willful negligence, and barriers that delay emergency response and harm our community.

This isn’t just careless — it’s reckless.
Mindless bureaucratic logic that prioritizes meaningless traffic control over human life has no place in public policy.

If common sense won’t prevail, perhaps public pressure — or legal action — will.

Given Congressman Tim Burchett’s role on the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, we urge him to address how local infrastructure decisions like these affect public safety and accessibility.

Stay Involved

You can help by:

• 📣 Sharing this petition
• 📞 Calling your neighbors
• ✉️ Contacting Congressman Tim Burchett
• 📄 Reporting EMS delays and incidents via our contact form
• 📰 Writing to the editor@farragutpress.com
• 📞 Reaching out to Town Engineer Darryl Smith

Sign the Petition

Add your name. Share your voice. Help us restore safe, accessible streets in Farragut View Subdivision.
🖊️ Please sign the petition to remove the speed bumps that are littering our streets and delaying EMS response.

We need your voice.
If you live on Sonja Drive or Admiral Road, please sign this petition to demand the immediate removal of dangerous and discriminatory speed bumps in our subdivision.

These speed bumps violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, delay emergency medical services, and increase the risk of accidents on our narrow roads. We are collecting signatures to present to Town of Farragut officials — and your participation matters.

📝 To be counted, you must be a resident of the Farragut View Subdivision.

Due to the Town of Farragut’s unfair and manipulated voting procedure, only a small group of residents on Admiral Road and Sonja Drive were allowed to participate in the two separate votes—despite the fact that everyone in the neighborhood is now affected by delayed emergency medical response times.

This petition is open to all residents of Farragut View Subdivision including our residents that were ignored by the Town of Farragut; because every voice deserves to be heard. However, we will highlight the signatures from residents who were not permitted to vote, and sort those signatures separately. These residents were excluded from the original decision-making process—even though their streets were used as justification for the Town of Farragut’s voting manipulation.

Your address will only be used to verify residency and will not be shared publicly.

Petition to Remove Speed Bumps in Farragut View Subdivision

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