Comments on: Topes http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/topes.htm Online magazine about living, working and traveling in Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:38:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Working Gringos http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/topes.htm/comment-page-1#comment-97054 Working Gringos Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:36:13 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/blog/?p=84#comment-97054 We appreciate your comment, Gerardo, and your sentiment. But we kind of like <em>topes</em>. They're a little bit fun, and they work. We appreciate your comment, Gerardo, and your sentiment. But we kind of like topes. They’re a little bit fun, and they work.

]]> By: Gerardo Moreno García http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/topes.htm/comment-page-1#comment-96990 Gerardo Moreno García Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:16:06 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/blog/?p=84#comment-96990 Es pésimo el uso de topes, es un mal nacional absurdo, una práctica tercermundista y retrograda. Así como Migue, me siento esclavo y rehén de los topes y me apena que ustedes como invitados a nuestro pais tambien lo sufran. Soy mexicano, y me avergüenza que tengamos topes. Estos obstáculos hacen que vayamos en retroceso y perdamos competitividad en una economía cada vez más globalizada. <strong>Translation</strong>: The usage of <em>topes </em>is a national problem. It’s absurd, a third world practice and reactionary. Just like Migue, I feel a slave and hostage of <em>topes </em>and I feel embarrassed that you as guest to our country have to suffer with them too. I’m Mexican and I’m ashamed of having <em>topes</em>. These kinds of obstacles make us go backwards and lose competitiveness in a more and more globalized economy. Es pésimo el uso de topes, es un mal nacional absurdo, una práctica tercermundista y retrograda. Así como Migue, me siento esclavo y rehén de los topes y me apena que ustedes como invitados a nuestro pais tambien lo sufran. Soy mexicano, y me avergüenza que tengamos topes. Estos obstáculos hacen que vayamos en retroceso y perdamos competitividad en una economía cada vez más globalizada.

Translation: The usage of topes is a national problem. It’s absurd, a third world practice and reactionary. Just like Migue, I feel a slave and hostage of topes and I feel embarrassed that you as guest to our country have to suffer with them too. I’m Mexican and I’m ashamed of having topes. These kinds of obstacles make us go backwards and lose competitiveness in a more and more globalized economy.

]]> By: Romina http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/topes.htm/comment-page-1#comment-76547 Romina Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:45:10 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/blog/?p=84#comment-76547 I am from Mexico City, i have lived all my life here and <em>TOPES</em> are a very natural thing for me, though i accept the some <em>topes </em><em>no tienen madre</em> (mexican expression of disgust (in this case)). There isn't a standard material, neither a standard size, nor anything. I think a reason for that depends on many things: 1) The place where it's placed; if the speed of the cars is low on that street usualy there is a small <em>tope</em>, if it's a looong "straight" road or streets in which cars go at high speed a bigger <em>TOPE </em>is needed. But I've been a victim of unmarked and unpainted <em>topes</em>. As I said before, <em>topes </em>are a very natural thing for me. All my life i have traveled around the world but it was until last spring when I went to Germany that I made myself conscious that <em>topes </em>don't exist in many parts of the world, and it was very hard to explain what a <em>tope </em>is to the Germans. It was a funny thing for me! I am from Mexico City, i have lived all my life here and TOPES are a very natural thing for me, though i accept the some topes no tienen madre (mexican expression of disgust (in this case)). There isn’t a standard material, neither a standard size, nor anything. I think a reason for that depends on many things: 1) The place where it’s placed; if the speed of the cars is low on that street usualy there is a small tope, if it’s a looong “straight” road or streets in which cars go at high speed a bigger TOPE is needed. But I’ve been a victim of unmarked and unpainted topes. As I said before, topes are a very natural thing for me. All my life i have traveled around the world but it was until last spring when I went to Germany that I made myself conscious that topes don’t exist in many parts of the world, and it was very hard to explain what a tope is to the Germans. It was a funny thing for me!

]]> By: Donald Simon http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/topes.htm/comment-page-1#comment-74579 Donald Simon Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:44:36 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/blog/?p=84#comment-74579 Sleeping Policemen I first was introduced to topes in 1959 when I first came to Mexico City during the first month of my summer vacation as a student at the University of Minnesota. During that month I visited many sites in and around the DF, Cuernavaca, and Acapulco. Needless to say, even at that time, there were plenty of topes around, especially outside the city and in the residential areas. The word tope was not in my Spanish vocabulary that I had been learning at the U of M. In fact it was not even in the Spanish dictionary since the word is a modismo from here in Mexico. The Mexican Spanish Dictionary Phrasebook by Lexus Publishing says topes are speed bumps and in quotation marks it says 'sleeping policemen.' It appears that the sleeping policemen are being replaced by sleeping cows. Well, whatever works, so be it. Sleeping Policemen
I first was introduced to topes in 1959 when I first came to Mexico City during the first month of my summer vacation as a student at the University of Minnesota. During that month I visited many sites in and around the DF, Cuernavaca, and Acapulco. Needless to say, even at that time, there were plenty of topes around, especially outside the city and in the residential areas. The word tope was not in my Spanish vocabulary that I had been learning at the U of M. In fact it was not even in the Spanish dictionary since the word is a modismo from here in Mexico. The Mexican Spanish Dictionary Phrasebook by Lexus Publishing says topes are speed bumps and in quotation marks it says ’sleeping policemen.’ It appears that the sleeping policemen are being replaced by sleeping cows. Well, whatever works, so be it.

]]> By: allison http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/topes.htm/comment-page-1#comment-46544 allison Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:49:23 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/blog/?p=84#comment-46544 When I was traveling through Mexico, we went from Oaxaca (the city) to Puerto Angel and it was maybe a 5 hour drive...with a total of I think 180 topes. Without the topes, it probably would've taken about 3 hours...or maybe that's just my imagination! Topes are definitely a charactristic part of Mexico. :) When I was traveling through Mexico, we went from Oaxaca (the city) to Puerto Angel and it was maybe a 5 hour drive…with a total of I think 180 topes. Without the topes, it probably would’ve taken about 3 hours…or maybe that’s just my imagination! Topes are definitely a charactristic part of Mexico. :)

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