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Speed bump and traffic calming humps drive me mad
Traffic calming measures

Speed hunps/bumps

Don't you just hate these damn things, do they really save lives and force cars to slow down or are they just an expensive waste of space designed to irritate drivers and give the council something to do?



The traffic calming measure is an island of bricks which protrudes into the road so that people travelling into the village have to wait and give way to people coming out of the village. Now, there are two major problems with this.

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10-4-2008just 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...morekeith
19-3-2008And 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.....moreSat Nav Tourer
22-2-2008Horray 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.Technolover
20-1-2008Everybody 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.....moreLaughable.
16-10-2007What a fantastic result! If you don't like it, use the dual carriageway like you're supposed to :-)Spudboy
25-6-2007Take 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...morePancho Villa
25-6-2007AAAAAAAARGH!!!! 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...moreJeremy Clarkson
20-5-2007Village 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...moreDan
15-5-2007Traffic 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&#...moreFrstsg
23-3-2007I 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 mo...moreAlan S.
12-1-2007Hurrah for speed bumps. Get on your bikes! It'll all be gridlock on the roads in the next few years anyway.Cyclist
27-11-2006Like 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 k...morefiftysomething



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