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Ok What Do We Think About Removing Speed Humps Then?
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Personally I welcome it for the environmental reasons as well as the fact that they are mostly unnecessary. We need to get stricter with enforcing speed limits outside schools etc.
Personally I welcome it for the environmental reasons as well as the fact that they are mostly unnecessary. We need to get stricter with enforcing speed limits outside schools etc.
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> I notice that nobody has come up with any workable alternative, to stopping wassocks driving too fast ?
I gave the link to the lots of workable alternatives earlier:
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For tons more resources, google [traffic calming]
Speed bumps = damaging the road surface. You might as well dig potholes - same effect. They're a stupid idea, the wrong answer to a good question ("How do we slow down speeding drivers without inconveniencing other drivers, emergency vehicles and so on, or damaging the environment?").
I gave the link to the lots of workable alternatives earlier:
https:/
For tons more resources, google [traffic calming]
Speed bumps = damaging the road surface. You might as well dig potholes - same effect. They're a stupid idea, the wrong answer to a good question ("How do we slow down speeding drivers without inconveniencing other drivers, emergency vehicles and so on, or damaging the environment?").
There are bumps, humps, cushions and tables, decreasing in severity from "bumps" which are often the last resort to try to control the heroes and all those who are too important to drive around living areas at a reasonable speed. Many of these are installed at the request of local residents and often on "rat runs" which need to be driven fast to make them pay - it's a real bummer if you take a rat run through a housing estate only to rejoin the traffic one car further back.......
In my case, on what is normally a quiet estate I see them every morning weekdays roaring by at silly speeds to try to gain maybe 10 or 20 seconds - getting to work! Of course they fall into two main types, boy racers with noise and black windows, and large BMW/Mercs which are too important to wait in line. In all cases "personalised" number plates predominate....
An old gentleman at the bottom of the street was terrified to watch them head straight for his front window so he asked the council to do something about it. He asked again six months later and was told the fix was done in the form of humps, only problem was they installed them in the next estate along, which is effectively a cul-de-sac having no through road.......
Anyway, I think that there should be more of them and if people deliberately break their suspension on them it's their choice.
In my case, on what is normally a quiet estate I see them every morning weekdays roaring by at silly speeds to try to gain maybe 10 or 20 seconds - getting to work! Of course they fall into two main types, boy racers with noise and black windows, and large BMW/Mercs which are too important to wait in line. In all cases "personalised" number plates predominate....
An old gentleman at the bottom of the street was terrified to watch them head straight for his front window so he asked the council to do something about it. He asked again six months later and was told the fix was done in the form of humps, only problem was they installed them in the next estate along, which is effectively a cul-de-sac having no through road.......
Anyway, I think that there should be more of them and if people deliberately break their suspension on them it's their choice.
No one should be forced to avoid roads they pay to use just because some individual who can't work out right from wrong opts to use public funds to ruin the road surface.
No one deliberately ruins their own car's suspension, it occurs under normal driving conditions due to the above inconsiderate actions from those in power.
The way to stop bad driving is a greater police presence and ensuring persistent offenders are not allowed to drive until they learn how.
Meanwhile roads are dangerous places, metal powered vehicles move along them. Pedestrians etc. have a duty to take care of themselves; even in a world where blaming others for one's inadequacies and not acting to keep oneself uninjured seems to be the growing norm.
No one deliberately ruins their own car's suspension, it occurs under normal driving conditions due to the above inconsiderate actions from those in power.
The way to stop bad driving is a greater police presence and ensuring persistent offenders are not allowed to drive until they learn how.
Meanwhile roads are dangerous places, metal powered vehicles move along them. Pedestrians etc. have a duty to take care of themselves; even in a world where blaming others for one's inadequacies and not acting to keep oneself uninjured seems to be the growing norm.
OG.
Someone on this thread says suspension is damaged by driving over humps at the legal permitted speed - I should think that might just be correct!! but I would say deliberate damage....
As for persistent offenders, short of prison nothing stops them, they rack points up, swap them, sell them, (even politicians) and when disqualified just keep on driving on dodgy licences.
I'm with you on people taking care of themselves as long as they are capable....but we have to consider toddlers or other children who can in a lot of cases run out from their own front door or garden onto a road in only two or three metres, then there are the deaf, aged and confused who can be unpredictable.....my guess is that electric cars, when predominant will eventually be banned from many roads because they are so quiet.
Someone on this thread says suspension is damaged by driving over humps at the legal permitted speed - I should think that might just be correct!! but I would say deliberate damage....
As for persistent offenders, short of prison nothing stops them, they rack points up, swap them, sell them, (even politicians) and when disqualified just keep on driving on dodgy licences.
I'm with you on people taking care of themselves as long as they are capable....but we have to consider toddlers or other children who can in a lot of cases run out from their own front door or garden onto a road in only two or three metres, then there are the deaf, aged and confused who can be unpredictable.....my guess is that electric cars, when predominant will eventually be banned from many roads because they are so quiet.
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