Traffic calming measures

just read the artical on traffic calming and must say I do agree on the aspect that yes people will take the quickest route they can find after all I do myself and yes the council may well have placed them in the wrong place however I still think there a good idea I wish I could persuade our council to do the same. the driver in question may well be a good driver and stick to the limits however not all drivers are and thats the problem the council dont just spend the money on traffic calming because a couple of people complain theres months somtimes years of debate over it.and no I dont work for any council its quite unbeliveble that I would defend them as my veiw of councils in general are quite low. still the fact remains traffic calming is a good idea and it saves lives not just pedestrians but drivers to ok its a bit inconvienient but so what this day and age there is that many cars on the roads you carnt help but get slowed down and after all why not just leave home a little earlier and take it easy I dont know about the driver that wrote the story but I would hate to knock anyone over and worse still if I was speeding. and like they say if you dont like it go another way.

And even better we have Sat Nav coupled to Speed Camera alerts and Laser diffusers... bring it on. Perhaps if the government didn't persecute us on the main roads we would not have to drive thru the nimby villages, so complain to your MP and Council, until then ... Coming to a village near you... Sat Nav tourism!

Horray for the sat nav. Now we can take even more obscure diversions through really small villages to avoid the congestion at the push of a button.

Everybody has the right to complain. Nobody but the government or council can dictate wether people can go through a village, none of you OWN the road. I know, living next to a road must be such a pain. All these cars........ travelling...on a road....next to your house....thats been built for use.......by cars.....for PUBLIC USE.

However!, I do not condone or try to defend the people speeding through built up areas as my brother was recently hit and left with 2 broken legs and a fractured pelvis, by someone caught doing 52 in a 30 zone, and proceeded to speed off.

All of this stupid, obsessive behaviour about roads BELONGING to a certain place or people is nonsense. The public has every right to use them, but use them responsibly, if the problem worsens, then calming measures should be introduced.

What a fantastic result!

If you don't like it, use the dual carriageway like you're supposed to :-)

Take a leaf out the book of the people of the Chiapas region in the southeast of Mexico.

There the people take the "law" into their own hands. They lay large Sleeping Policemen across the main roads passing by or through villages, and when any strange car or coach passes the humps cause it to slow right down, they stop this vehicle and then demand $1 tax in cash each from its occupants.

AAAAAAAARGH!!!! Do you know what really gets on my toot? Busybodies that spend four hours using a borrowed speed gun to detect the speed of vehicles driving through your little corner of the Earth and then running crying to the police whinging and whining that "something must be done!" How sad and pointless their miserable little lives must be.
Go write to the Daily (hate) Mail you useless old farts.

Village life is being lost by traffic. The amount of traffic that goes through the village I live in is terriable. I feel we are loosing the English way of village life and villages should not be used as rat runs for people trying to get to the busy towns and cities. Far enough people have to get to places, but that is why there are moterways like the M3 where the roads are actually built for the amount of traffic of today, unlike many villages. Personally people should only use village roads if they have buisness in the village or wish to get home!

Traffic calming measures are not just a pain in the neck, alot of them are plain dangerous. I've lost count of the times I've had to screech to a halt because of stupidly placed priority ways and pinch points. Reflective bollards are not always that helpfully placed either. Speed bumps don't really bother me so much, only when people go ridiculously slow over them.

As for speed limits, I think alot of them are again, stupidly placed. I'm talking fast speed limits down narrow winding country lanes, and also stupidly slow speed limits in unnecessary places.

People get run over cause theyre stupid, crossing a road isn't hard. Seriously. (I'm gonna get run over for saying that now).

I also use Ringmead when I take my daughter to Easthampstead park school from Prietwood every morning, and I have to say I find it a nightmare to negotiate these so called traffic calming measures the reason being that far from calming traffic they have the oposite effect in so much as they cause motorists to get angry with each other when one driver attempts to drive through when its not ther right of way (not my idea of calming!)
Another problem is a lot of the time one car may have to wait while more than twenty cars come the other way and gives the impression of losing time and being late this causes drivers to speed up above the speed limit once they have passed the artificial obstruction.I don`t know what buffoons thought up the idea of chicanes,but I can only conclude that they are not motorists themselves.
In conclusion ther are other better and more sensible ways of slowing vehicles down I.e speed limit signs that are triggered by cars exceeding the speed limit, I write this as a driver of 43 years expieriance driving on average 60.000 miles per anum.

Hurrah for speed bumps. Get on your bikes! It'll all be gridlock on the roads in the next few years anyway.

Like a number of people who have entered comments here, I also live in a village (once quiet and fairly peaceful) with a 30mph limit, plagued with both heavy traffic and excessive speeding. Traffic calming measures have been absolutely essential; the accident rate is high, and two people have been killed in the past two years....not perhaps a high death-rate, but it's two too many.
A priority gateway protects many of the villagers from being killed on their own doorsteps, so to speak; and we are awaiting the arrival of a VAS.
It seems to be a hobby amongst many drivers to go village-bombing, taking the roads at excessive speed with no regard to residents or road conditions.
If traffic calming measures are holding you up on your way to work, then may I suggest you get up earlier.......or try another route. Although village residents may not own the road, they do live there and were probably there long before the traffic problems started. They do have rights. Either shut up or get to work some other way.
And.....I don't answer responses.