Speed humps and mini roundabouts

I couldn't agree more! But it is worse, much worse, than you claim. Many of these idiot features DO have a "Give Way" double broken line plus sign on ONE "entrance. For some reason which is utterly beyond me this is read by most drivers as "Give Way unless you are TURNING right - in which case you don't even need to slow down. This is completely contrary to common sense AND the Higway Code, and it is bloody dangerous - especially as there is only me and my mate Nick who understand how these things are supposed to work!

Is your council building mini roundabouts at practically every road junction, whilst spreading parking residential parking zones to further fleece residents of any money they may have left over after their extortionate council tax bills are paid, like the council area I live in does?
Not allowed to mention particular places, but it's recently become a so-called city, just south of Dunblane and north of Larbert , begins with S and ends in G. Do you not think that council officials and councillors need to be reminded that they work for us and not we for them?
Perhaps a bit of pain on the jobs front will bring them to heel?

To clarify before some wise @$$ perks up that by slowing me down, the humps are doing their job, I don't speed and rarely if at all go over a speed limit. That only happens when I'm spending my time looking at the road ahead and not constantly staring at my speed.

Humps not only cause the bunching up of cars but they destroy car componants. I'm forever having to replace wishbone balljoints and suspension struts through driving over atleast a mile of them on my journey to work and again on the way back. I could if someone got really anal, re plan my route but that also adds about 3 miles onto it and more heavy traffic queues.

Road bumps also don't have the desired effect on half of the drivers out there. I slow right down to being pulled along at idle in 1st gear, to then get thrashed past by an old lady in a Corsa or someone with no respect for their own car still going 35 over a hump in a 30 zone. That in itself is amazing because the 23 year old in a very fast hatchback is driving slowly over the speed bumps and the mature drivers that can do no wrong, drive over the limit hitting 5 - 10mph over the limit.

Funny really.

I drove 50foot long lorries for a living,mini roundabouts I'm sorry to say are just there to be ignored,my vehicle could not possibly go around them,so to be fair I must admit that it ended up with me not even trying to do so.
But I have an opinion on traffic humps that may surprise you.Rip them all out,simple,but fit Police Motorcycles with Radar guns,or even plain vans,I don't care which,if your caught speeding thats your problem,we can all see the speed limit signs.But why should every car be expected to drive over pavement sized humps every 100 yards just because of drivers with a heavy right foot.

We have several mini-roundabouts in our village where most drivers turning right cross in front of the roundabout instead of going around it, claiming that they have right of way. Should an accident occur with a vehicle on the roundabout going straight ahead, who would be at fault?

Can a car drive over the middle of a mini roundabout to turn right?

I agree with Griper; no matter what speed you are doing over some of these speed bumps you can jar your car and/or yourself. A 100 yard long road near me has no less than 5 of the big wide ones, and even going at 2 mph gives one hell of a jolt. It's made worse because it's the only road leading to an old folks retirement complex; a nightmare if an ambulance is needed.

While the principle of speed bumps is sound, there really should be more thought given to the style of them. Smooth bumps raised a couple of inches off the road are OK, but great big edged monstrosities are just ridiculous. And in areas where ambulances are seen frequently, use speed cameras instead!

God created mini-roundabouts and other traffic calming measures so that you could sin going round or over them.

Mini roundabouts were never intended to be that type of junction.
In the majority of cases, the location of the roundabout was originaly a T junction with bend in the road or a crossroads. Due to that the amount of space to turn is greatly reduced.
Due to increasing volumes on traffic on the roads, they were put in to prevent pollution in side roads to bordering houses from waiting stationary traffic. Most of the roads effected were being used as "rat runs" by drivers. They along with speed humps also slow down the traffic, which came about due to the few mindless idiots who speed through quite residential roads.
Therebye spoiling it for the rest of us sensible drivers.
My qualifictions, amongst others Approved Driving Instructor Grade 6 /M.I.A.M/Holder of HGV C+E/Motorcyclist/Diploma In driving Instruction/ADI Trainer.

bad Idea speed bumps in rural areas . keep spilling my beer everytime I hit one of those things

Motor vehicles and their drivers are the primary source of danger on our roads. No-one has ever been killed by a speed camera, mini-roundabout or a speed hump.

The primary contributory causes of the severity of collisions are speed and driver ability / judgement.

Traffic calming is intended to slow the traffic down, so that proper observations and signals may be made and to limit the damage caused, should a collision occur.

Highway Code 188
Mini-roundabouts. Approach these in the same way as normal roundabouts. All vehicles MUST pass round the central markings except large vehicles which are physically incapable of doing so. Remember, there is less space to manoeuvre and less time to signal. Avoid making U-turns at mini-roundabouts. Beware of others doing this.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_070338