Local resident complaining about traffic
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What a s
t day.
I came home from work last night to see two wires across the street outside my house. As we live on a narrow residential street with a speed limit of 20mph I was a little nervous. I queried the local council who kindly replied:
"Thank you for your recent E-Mail relating to the traffic survey which is currently being undertaken on xxxx Ave.
Concerns were recently raised by a resident of xxxx Ave with regards to the speed and volume of vehicles travelling on xxxx Ave and in order to decide if works were required a survey was needed to determine the average speed of traffic. Once we have received the data and it has been analyzed a decision shall then be made on how to proceed and we can keep you informed of any proposals which we may have."
fking great. Some fker has decided that cars are driving too quickly down our street so I'm guessing the likely outcome is speedbumps which will ruin my old Beele (we only moved here as there weren't any speed bumps and given the width of the street there is no other traffic calming option). The thing that boils my piss is that it is impossible to get any real speed up in the street given the number of cars parked everywhere as people refuse to use their drives. All traffic is from people who live here! It's hardly a fking bypass!
Anyway, I replied:
"Thank you for your speedy reply, I would be interested in the outcome of the survey.
The complaint about the volume and speed of traffic from one resident baffles me given the width of the road and the number of vehicles you need to navigate round due to residents refusing to park on their driveways. Any proposal to add any form of speed bumps would be strongly opposed by me as I feel these are unnecessary and yet another annoyance to drivers:
- causing damage to cars (even at slow speeds)
- drivers slowing down and then accelerating away from them which increases the average speed rather than decreasing it
- increase in noise pollution as drivers "rev" the engine to get over them
- diverting cars to other streets
Hopefully common-sense will prevail for once and it will be seen that most of the drivers who enter the street are residents and, as a result, are already driving at a sensible speed."
The annoying thing is that I bet the person who complained is one of the local mams who insists on taking the kids to school and stopping on the no parking zone. The same ones who want the street closed at every opportunity so they can have street parties...every other weekend it seems to be some event.
...ARGH.
Has anyone seen this in their street? What was the outcome? Do they ALWAYS put speedbumps down or do they sometimes tell the complaining resident to fk off?
And I can't move, we just moved here
Love the house though 
t day.I came home from work last night to see two wires across the street outside my house. As we live on a narrow residential street with a speed limit of 20mph I was a little nervous. I queried the local council who kindly replied:
"Thank you for your recent E-Mail relating to the traffic survey which is currently being undertaken on xxxx Ave.
Concerns were recently raised by a resident of xxxx Ave with regards to the speed and volume of vehicles travelling on xxxx Ave and in order to decide if works were required a survey was needed to determine the average speed of traffic. Once we have received the data and it has been analyzed a decision shall then be made on how to proceed and we can keep you informed of any proposals which we may have."
f
king great. Some fker has decided that cars are driving too quickly down our street so I'm guessing the likely outcome is speedbumps which will ruin my old Beele (we only moved here as there weren't any speed bumps and given the width of the street there is no other traffic calming option). The thing that boils my piss is that it is impossible to get any real speed up in the street given the number of cars parked everywhere as people refuse to use their drives. All traffic is from people who live here! It's hardly a fking bypass!Anyway, I replied:
"Thank you for your speedy reply, I would be interested in the outcome of the survey.
The complaint about the volume and speed of traffic from one resident baffles me given the width of the road and the number of vehicles you need to navigate round due to residents refusing to park on their driveways. Any proposal to add any form of speed bumps would be strongly opposed by me as I feel these are unnecessary and yet another annoyance to drivers:
- causing damage to cars (even at slow speeds)
- drivers slowing down and then accelerating away from them which increases the average speed rather than decreasing it
- increase in noise pollution as drivers "rev" the engine to get over them
- diverting cars to other streets
Hopefully common-sense will prevail for once and it will be seen that most of the drivers who enter the street are residents and, as a result, are already driving at a sensible speed."
The annoying thing is that I bet the person who complained is one of the local mams who insists on taking the kids to school and stopping on the no parking zone. The same ones who want the street closed at every opportunity so they can have street parties...every other weekend it seems to be some event.
...ARGH.
Has anyone seen this in their street? What was the outcome? Do they ALWAYS put speedbumps down or do they sometimes tell the complaining resident to f
k off?And I can't move, we just moved here
Love the house though Hoink said:
Has anyone seen this in their street? What was the outcome? Do they ALWAYS put speedbumps down or do they sometimes tell the complaining resident to fk off?
I live near 2 schools. Speed cushions were put in, which slow down only people with mechanical sympathy, and people who generally drive appropriately for the conditions.k off?Unfortunately, they do not slow down vans, kamikaze 4x4 drivers, and school buses. Therefore, all the "traffic calming" has achieved is increased wear on my car, increased my frustration, and done bugger all for safety.
Hopefully your council will find a better solution.
Daydreaming about the subject matter, having been driven to distraction by pointless 'traffic calming' on a road local to me which you'd have to be Carlos Sainz and Timo Makinen's bd lovechild to travel along at more than 20mph, I came to the conclusion that pouring thermite all over a speedbump and setting it on fire would make quite an impressive mess of it. Don't try this at home kids. 
d lovechild to travel along at more than 20mph, I came to the conclusion that pouring thermite all over a speedbump and setting it on fire would make quite an impressive mess of it. Don't try this at home kids. Devil2575 said:
Hoink said:
we only moved here as there weren't any speed bumps and given the width of the street there is no other traffic calming option
Did you really pick the house you did based on the lack of speed bumps?If the traffic is as you say then you have nothing to worry about.
Codswallop said:
Unfortunately, they do not slow down kamikaze 4x4 drivers
Too true. My kids play on the street outside. There are speed bumps and a 20mph limit. Most people adhere to the limit except for two Class A bellends. One in a Q3, one in a Q7. Both seem to think 30-40mph is about right. Day in, day bloody out. Still, their kids are safe........Hoink said:
Devil2575 said:
Hoink said:
we only moved here as there weren't any speed bumps and given the width of the street there is no other traffic calming option
Did you really pick the house you did based on the lack of speed bumps?If the traffic is as you say then you have nothing to worry about.
9mm said:
First I've heard of that one I must say (the humps not the garage).
Sorry, I can't fully quote as my phone is playing up.The speed bumps they're putting in this area are monstrous and car wreckers so people are avoiding them. We do have some on the entrance to the estate but I can drive a different way - we're on a side street and there are currently no restrictions on any of these.
Ecurie Ecosse said:
How busy is the street?
I ask as there was a survey done near me to decide whether to put traffic lights in. It was decided that the road wasn't busy enough to warrant them.
It's just residents so not too bad.I ask as there was a survey done near me to decide whether to put traffic lights in. It was decided that the road wasn't busy enough to warrant them.
My worry is they have already marked the road in the middle of the street so I suspect they will just put one up regardless...with or without me cutting the wires
George7 said:
I didn't think the wires across the road measured speed; I thought they just measured volume of traffic? Happy to be corrected though, as there's quite a few around my way at the moment.
From those two wires you can get speed, length of wheelbase, number of wheels (i.e. many HGV's?) and, depending how accurate the timer inside that logs the events is, the approximate wheel size too (through contact patch timing). Couple that with time-of-day and you can see how many school run-only people there are, daily through-traffic, commuters, weekend traffic etc etc.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff