RE: Speed Humps Rival Fiji For CO2 Footprint
Discussion
Gold said:
Stubby Pete said:
general190 said:
thehardman07 said:
My local council (in a bid to waste some of our money before the end of the financial year) has recently put speed bumps in just about EVERY street in my town...... which is annoying. The ones on my commute out of town to work though are not wide enough, meaning you can place each wheel on either side and not feel a thing!
I hate these speed bumps!! they are ok if in a car with a normal ride height but if im in the skyline or celica then they will scrape all the way down the car on the underside. Just had to have the exaust re-attached on the celica because of it!! Grr! Even have to be carful in the bmw.I have to slow right down and take one side up and over to save scraping my chassis f
king things!
HTH
Edited by thehardman07 on Monday 13th July 10:14
I could be slightly out here but I once read that the emissions from cars makes for something like 5-10% of all carbon produced in the world coupled with that we are one of the worlds smaller countries in respect of square miles, how comes we keep getting shafted year after year and we keep buying the whole green sh*te, you look at a steel plant in this country or india and they are belching tons and tons of the stuff, cars are not making the amount of difference in proportion to what we have to pay.
And this really chaps my arse!
And this really chaps my arse!
thehardman07 said:
My local council (in a bid to waste some of our money before the end of the financial year) has recently put speed bumps in just about EVERY street in my town...... which is annoying. The ones on my commute out of town to work though are not wide enough, meaning you can place each wheel on either side and not feel a thing!
I think they were done so busses were not affected by them, but cars have to driver over them due to a narrower wheel base. Im assuming that as cars get bigger they will become pointless as everyone will be able to straddle them and no one will slow down. These things
Cotty said:
I think they were done so busses were not affected by them, but cars have to driver over them due to a narrower wheel base. Im assuming that as cars get bigger they will become pointless as everyone will be able to straddle them and no one will slow down.
These things
Just to nitpick: wheelbase is the length of car between front and rear axles. You're referring to track width.These things
There are a couple of roads round the corner from me are absolutely littered with humps - in both cases they are full width. One of the roads is a private one, so I guess it's entirely the residents' decision to put them in, in which case fair play to 'em. Theirs are simple tarmac humps and, while they're pretty vicious, they're nothing like as bad as those on the adjoining public road, which are whacking great flat-topped things with stone facings on each side and they are real car-breakers. Ironically, it turned out that the best way of tackling them and avoiding the worst of 'em is to charge at them doing about 60mph... although I only did this once, at the dead of night, wouldn't dare do it in daylight hours.
cs02rm0 said:
the Fantom said:
Speed bumps might be annoying, but not so annoying as people speeding past our house. We live on typical housing estate. No house is more than 750m from the main road and even at 20mph it would take no more than 90 seconds to get to the furthest house, and on average 45 seconds, after leaving the main road. So why oh why do idiots in all manner of cars have to zoom past at full throttle and frightening (at least to my children) speeds. Since the speed bumps were put in it dramatically slows the cars down, so in this case they are a necessary evil. Of course the sites need to be appropriate.
Is there any better alternative solution?
Are these people running into anything?Is there any better alternative solution?
No but when they do it will be a worse outcome than if they had been slowed down by speed bumps.
Is it a bad thing that your children are frightened of fast moving cars?
Do you have children yet?
Marquis_Rex said:
Speed humps are very rare in the USA and I've never come across one in Germany when i lived there.
Anyone else going to keep contending with me saying that all countries are just as bad as the UK-i.e equal?
BTW, alot of speed humps were removed in North London some years ago on the request of ambulance departments of hospitals.
I live in Belgium and it's at least as bad.Anyone else going to keep contending with me saying that all countries are just as bad as the UK-i.e equal?
BTW, alot of speed humps were removed in North London some years ago on the request of ambulance departments of hospitals.
Speed bumps are everywhere, and it's nearly impossible to determine a "safe speed". The old C-class and 3-er were notoriously bad of hitting the floor with the rear end while driving off some. On the 159/SLK I never had such problem.
the Fantom said:
Speed bumps might be annoying, but not so annoying as people speeding past our house. We live on typical housing estate. No house is more than 750m from the main road and even at 20mph it would take no more than 90 seconds to get to the furthest house, and on average 45 seconds, after leaving the main road. So why oh why do idiots in all manner of cars have to zoom past at full throttle and frightening (at least to my children) speeds. Since the speed bumps were put in it dramatically slows the cars down, so in this case they are a necessary evil. Of course the sites need to be appropriate.
Is there any better alternative solution?
Thing is, some cars are just a lot better at taking them so they enforce jack sIs there any better alternative solution?
t. Our 307 and our Nissan Patrol hardly have to slow down for any speed humps. So it comes down to: depending on the car you're driving, this might or might not slow you down.Honestly, what % of the cars these days is some sort of SUV/crossover? I'm talking XC40/60/90, X3/5/6, Nissans, KIA, Hyundai. They are all over the place and all of these are hardly slowed down by any speed hump. Take into account that due to their high COG, and often higher weight, their handling/braking capacity is actually compromised.
Controversial for PH, I know, but a better way for these residential areas would be to enforce a (sensible) speed limit, the same for every car, wouldn't it?
Oh, at the inlaws the street advocated for one. They have one now and indeed, general traffic has to slow down. However, when you're in the garden or in the house now you can actually FEEL trucks go past
.T89 Callan said:
Who gives a flying fk?
The Co2 Argument is pointless as CO2 makes no difference to anything and speed bumps are just st anyway.
They're never going to remove speed bumps just find another way to use this sort of retarded crap to punish the motorist.
fk CO2, fk Speedbumps, fk Fiji, fk Carbon offsetting sthouses. The whole thing reeks of self important arse holes.
k?The Co2 Argument is pointless as CO2 makes no difference to anything and speed bumps are just s
t anyway.They're never going to remove speed bumps just find another way to use this sort of retarded crap to punish the motorist.
f
k CO2, fk Speedbumps, fk Fiji, fk Carbon offsetting sthouses. The whole thing reeks of self important arse holes.
the Fantom said:
Speed bumps might be annoying, but not so annoying as people speeding past our house. We live on typical housing estate. No house is more than 750m from the main road and even at 20mph it would take no more than 90 seconds to get to the furthest house, and on average 45 seconds, after leaving the main road. So why oh why do idiots in all manner of cars have to zoom past at full throttle and frightening (at least to my children) speeds. Since the speed bumps were put in it dramatically slows the cars down, so in this case they are a necessary evil. Of course the sites need to be appropriate.
Is there any better alternative solution?
Took the words out of my mouth. If all you fIs there any better alternative solution?
king dheads stuck to the proscribed speed limit then there'd be no need for speed humps. 
The two worst types are:
the square "cushions" of tarmac (ontop of hardcore?) that have a flat top and inclined sides with the width being such that most cars' wheels end up on the sloping sides. The sides gradually disintegrate, particularly in winter and roughen up so that they damage inner tyre sidewalls; and
The full width, built up sections of road with a slope up and down made of stone blocks. The stone block inclines inenvitably subside due to heavier traffic, e.g. buses, rendering them steeper with sharper edges.
To make things worse idiot councils also install speed bumps right at the top and bottom of slopes, increasing the chance of low cars scraping the road surface.
the square "cushions" of tarmac (ontop of hardcore?) that have a flat top and inclined sides with the width being such that most cars' wheels end up on the sloping sides. The sides gradually disintegrate, particularly in winter and roughen up so that they damage inner tyre sidewalls; and
The full width, built up sections of road with a slope up and down made of stone blocks. The stone block inclines inenvitably subside due to heavier traffic, e.g. buses, rendering them steeper with sharper edges.
To make things worse idiot councils also install speed bumps right at the top and bottom of slopes, increasing the chance of low cars scraping the road surface.
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