Vehicles speeding through your neighborhood -- you hate that, right? Everybody does, but when it comes to what to do about it, opinions are all over the map.

Three years ago, the city -- in response to speeding complaints -- began compiling a list of streets that need help. So far, 79 streets are on the list. More will be added.

The hardest part, besides finding funds, may be deciding what to do on each street.

There are all kinds of options, although one of the most effective, speed bumps, is not favored on major streets. Experience in other cities has been negative; for instance, some homeowners found it hard to sell their homes on streets with speed bumps, according to Kathryn Beard, a city transportation engineer.

But there are other steps that tend to make drivers ease up on the gas, Beard said, ranging from more speed limit signs to design changes such as islands in the middle of the street.

That this is a potentially divisive issue was plain Monday when Beard, along with Mayor Charles Meeker and City Council members Janet Cowell and Philip Isley, attended a meeting of residents of the Turnberry neighborhood. About 50 people crowded a room at Temple Beth Or to hear what would be done to slow speeders along Plaza Place, a street that motorists use to cut through from Millbrook to Creedmoor roads.

One resident suggested blocking Plaza at one end so only local traffic could use it. "Good idea!" someone said on one side of the room. "Terrible idea!" someone said on the other side.

Speeding is clearly a problem in North Raleigh. Though the worst street and the first one to see actual work, Ashe Avenue, is inside the Beltline, the other four streets in the worst five are north of the Beltline -- Plaza Place, Eagle Trace Drive, Mourning Dove Road and Rainwater Road.

The city has a process in place that will give residents plenty of opportunity to express their opinions. Only if 75 percent of residents along a street approve a plan will the city act.

Meanwhile, the city has $450,000 in this year's budget, which will take care of only four or five streets, Beard said. The full job will take more than $7 million, Cowell said.

A ranked list of streets, as well as pros and cons of various "traffic calming" measures, are at www.raleigh-nc.org/transportation.

You might want to start thinking about what you want done.