Speed humps and mini roundabouts

What speed are you doing over these "Speed Humps"? Don't you realise they have been put there for a reason? To slow you down,not to see how fast you can take them!
Unfortunatly I am disabled & walk with the aid of a stick. The number of drivers that refuse to slow down to allow me to cross safely never ceases to amaze me.

The scourge of the mini roundabout may be on the decline.

Of the six that were there in the 1 mile stretch when I raised the gripe, two have been since removed.

You should try coming to Penrith in Cumbria. It's absolutely shocking! One bus firm recieved a payment from the council because their buses were getting ruined. Just outside the town there is a village called Clifton with the most stupid traffic calming measures I have ever seen. Basically, they are square kerbs that extend into the road (with no reflective markers), effectively narrowing the road. Except the road was very wide to start with, so basically it's narrowed to a conventional road's width. Oh and the one way, one-car's-width lane at the back of my house has a speed hump now. Despite there being at max 5 or 6 cars that park up the road, and don't drive fast and have not hit anyone in all the 10 years I have lived there.
What's with that?

ps to my last message.
The "Green" argument regarding road building holds no water either, as far as I can see, because a vehicle travelling at a constant speed uses far less fuel, and produces much less polution than one constantly stoping and starting.
Also the latest "pet" traffic calming measure in my area is to Build an artificial road narrows on a blind bend, so that traffic approaching from either direction, cannot see other vehicles until they are in the single narrowed part of the road. I have witnessed several narrow misses between cars at these points, and wonder how long before there is a major accident?

With increasing penalties for speed limit infringements, Speed humps, "Traffic calming" narrows in an otherwise wide road, and other Anti motor vehicle measures, how long before motor vehicles need to be in groups of six preceeded by a man waving a red flag.
This was the situation in this country when Cars were called Motor Carriages, and horses were the priciple mode of transport.
Are regressing in terms of transport?
Without wishing to turn this into a political debate; how many people remember that when "New" Labour took over government, they immediately stopped all road improvement projects, increased all motor taxation (including Diesel fuel, in particular) and introduced blanket installation of speed cameras countrywide.
Because no major road improvements have been made in 10 years, our roads are now out of date, badly planned, and bursting at the seams.
I cannot accept the agrgument that the more roads built increases traffic. if roads are built to accomodate all drivers, then there must be enough space; I cannot think of a single driver who can drive twoo vehicles at the same time!

With increasing penalties for speed limit infringements, Speed humps, "Traffic calming" narrows in an otherwise wide road, and other Anti motor vehicle measures, how long before motor vehicles need to be in groups of six preceeded by a man waving a red flag.
This was the situation in this country when Cars were called Motor Carriages, and horses were the priciple mode of transport.
Are regressing in terms of transport?
Without wishing to turn this into a political debate; how many people remember that when "New" Labour took over government, they immediately stopped all road improvement projects, increased all motor taxation (including Diesel fuel, in particular) and introduced blanket installation of speed cameras countrywide.
Because no major road improvements have been made in 10 years, our roads are now out of date, badly planned, and bursting at the seams.
I cannot accept the agrgument that the more roads built increases traffic. if roads are built to accomodate all drivers, then there must be enough space; I cannot think of a single driver who can drive twoo vehicles at the same time!

I live in Penrith in Cumbria. The council here have a love affair with speed humps, they even managed to put one on my back road (single carriageway dead end), and it's so narrow it doesn't even work. Nice use of public money!

I'm soon to be returning home to the UK after living in Sydney for 3 years (and we don't have many bumps here). One of the things I'm not looking forward to is the speed bumps! I appreciate and understand the reason why we have them but I personally think they cause more harm than good.
I have an old whiplash injury which occasionally rears it's ugle head, going of speed bumps when I'm already in pain with my neck is torture.
My mum and my brother both suffer drom bad backs, they too find speed bumps painful.

Why can't we look at putting chicanes in place instead? Or other methods that don't put more strain on people with injuries. God help people in the ambulances!

To be honest, if a political party took up the notion of abolishing these bumps, I for one would vote for them!

I like the speed humps you can drive over/round.
A good driver can position their car accuratly and not have to slow down.
Whereas a worse driver who cannot position their car accurately has to slow down.
Perfect! The worse/more dangerous drivers have to slow down, but competent ones can just carry on at the speed limit ;-)

the person who designed speed humps must have been a car hijacker that's why "he" made them posible. He was just too curious about how to make them "stop" so that he could do his things when he was a thug. Damn...!

Just remember that these humps are to make the roads safer.

So why am I looking at the road for the humps instead of straight ahead !

Graham, The idiot who tried to bounce you off the roundabout can't read. There's a great big sign before you enter a mini-roundabout saying "Give Way", meaning Give Way to anyone who is already on the roundabout. A miniround effectively only has room for one car at a time. If you were there first and were already on the roundabout he should have given way.