Increase in speed humps!

[HOTELISE]

Anybody else frustrated with the large amounts of stupidly large speed humps being installed on our roads?
We pay our road tax the same as everybody else but cant even use some of the roads due to the sheer height of these things!
Our cars are road legal and standard so why do the council overlook things like this when they agree to instaling them.

[gooby]

There is a height restriction on the things, if they are "over heigh" then get damages from the local road nazis.

[S Works]

I think the legal height is something like 10mm - anything larger and IIRC you can write to the council or local highways dept and they have to change them.

[Hugh72]

My problem is that there are 5 different routes to my estate and all but one have speed bumps. I already have to take quite a detour to get home or go anywhere. Just waiting till the local council buffoons decide to start on the last road in, and seal me into my house for good !!!!

[GTRene]

In my country they are grazy too with those speedbumps, and you know what? I'm not a dangerous driver and with mostly sporty cars I drive I slow down...but what realy is dangerous is that people with dangerous cars such as old fiat pandas and land rover look alikes SUV included, go over theese things with high speed thats realy dangerous, our cars have a desent setup but the other cars are realy getting out balance, but they dont care because they are higher of ground so mostly don't damage there cars like we do when we drove that fast over speedbumps...it helps only for lambos and sort like cars but not for those cheap "unsafe" cars...and those are realy more dangerous with their longer braking distance and more easely out of line because of their weak setup?!
And even when I want to drive on country roasd outside the city I see more and more speedbumps out there where you don't aspect them...can cause scary moments in the middle of the night I tell you
GTRene

[jago]

they really piss me off. i think local councils have to spend all their budget to ensure they get the same ammount awarded next year. if i win the lottery i'm getting another lotus obv, and paying someone a stack of used 50s to take out all the speedbumps in my area.

[alan.bennett]

I DO agree with you guys that the speed humps are WAY too high in lots of places (although I've not had a problem with any in Glasgow in the elise). -

but remember that UNLIKE THE SCAMERAS speed bumps have made a BIG reduction in accidents and are about the only speed reducing measure that's actually been shown to save peoples lives!.

so much as i hate them, i guess i kind of have to repect them, unlike the thieving ba**ard scamera brigade

A.

[medusa]

I had to go to a housing estate in Milton Keynes, nice houses, speed humps everywhere, managed to creep over some, got to one, the car just could not get over it, I had to park the car and walk to the persons house then creep over all the humps again on the way out.

[aelord]

They increase rate of wear on your suspension etc. and up the geometry. But try charging the council Nazis for that.....

[kevin ritson]

alan.bennett said:

I DO agree with you guys that the speed humps are WAY too high in lots of places (although I've not had a problem with any in Glasgow in the elise). - but remember that UNLIKE THE SCAMERAS speed bumps have made a BIG reduction in accidents and are about the only speed reducing measure that's actually been shown to save peoples lives!. so much as i hate them, i guess i kind of have to repect them, unlike the thieving ba**ard scamera brigade A.

I'd rather have a scamera - it'll get picked up on the Road Angel and I won't suffer yet more suspension wear and tear.

They've just put loads of the b*stards up in my neck of the woods. Not bothered about the side roads - I don't use them put they've stuck a load on a TRUNK ROAD! Apparently the idiot residents were whinging, yet the only problem I've ever had on the road is idiot residents pulling out of side roads without looking...there was a fatal accident there 11 years ago but the inquest hinted that the traffic-calming islands contributed to the problem...

Anyway I now have to negotiate another set of humps on the daily commute. Perhaps the best course of action is to hit the horn everytime you go over one. Accelerating between them (up to 30) with a noisy exhaust does no harm, either

>> Edited by kevin ritson on Monday 3rd April 13:58

[aelord]

Anyway I now have to negotiate another set of humps on the daily commute. Perhaps the best course of action is to hit the horn everytime you go over one. Accelerating between them (up to 30) with a noisy exhaust does no harm, either

>> Edited by kevin ritson on Monday 3rd April 13:58[/quote]


Stage 2 is great for just that! The resultant dismay on the faces of pious residents is a joy to behold...

>> Edited by aelord on Monday 3rd April 14:32

[colin5577]

I derive a perverse pleasure from sppedbumps now, and used to make a huge meal out of them in my Caterhams. Change down on approach (bang, pop, bang), inch over the hump (rev, rev).. up though first, short change into second, down into first for the next one (bang, crack, pop...pop) etc etc, and after the last one, an unnecessary long blat back up to the relatively quiet 30 or 40 I was doing in the first place. One particular stretch near where I live (out in the boondocks) I regularly have to tackle late at night. Why those things are still there, I'll never know.

[GTRene]

they could make other speedbumps, not that high so even lower sportcars can get over them, they have to find another way! here in Holland we have some fine examples you could look at...
Mostly I hate those wide and high speedbumps(mostly the bricks type) as wide as the street and way to high!only with a SUV or Fiat Panda you get over those...

those are fine and helpfull



But the most in the older streets made with bricks are mostly wrong! or wear out and getting deeper in front of them so the car dives into that when you have a lower spoiler, and you can't get over the sidewalk way because most ar 15cm or higher! I had that last year in Amsterdam(the anticar city) I had to turn back because I could not get over the bump or the sidewalkway...and I pay for the roads...hm, bad investment
GTRene

[leftie]

Nearby we have humps as you leave the village and enter the unrestricted area. No apparent reason (no junctions etc) and only 20 yards until the national limit signs. Madness.