Found this site, seems like we all have a voice on it.
Small minorites having there say.
www.dumpthehumps.org
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One more for HJ's file of evidence - good luck!
A thought has just ocurred to me - why don't they build speed dips rather than humps? No problems with ground clearance, and buses etc with large wheels would be less affected.
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They would fill up with water and then freeze in the winter.
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Luckily, around my way, the council have found a way to provide speed moderation measures at no capital cost & burden to the local taxpayer - they simply don't do road maintenance on residential streets, which provides a marvellous variety of bumps, dips, ridges & pot-holes that deter even the chaviest of suped-up Nova Spin drivers.
I noted recently a street running through a large-ish local estate that had had new 'proper' humps & lateral warning ridges installed along with a new road surface, that it actually made the road smoother & faster when compared to its' previous delapidated un-speed-humped state. I'm informed also, that the local gubmint officers responsible for this miracle of un-joined-up thinking get nice pensions too.
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Some young lad was killed on a moped due to hitting a pothole and being flung under a lorry. Local councillor had just been saying how good a road safety measure potholes were as they slow people down. Boy's mother has started a petition:
www.4callum.com/tameside.html
Since when do things which damage vehicle suspension, wheels, tyres and risk injury to cyclists, motorcyclists and moped riders constitute a safety improvement?! This attitude beggar's belief.
teabelly
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They would fill up with water and then freeze in the winter.
No, not with the camber of the road and if channed into the gutter or drain.
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>>No, not with the camber of the road and if channed into the gutter or drain.>>
This can happen even on ordinary roads as driving down a dual carriageway in north Liverpool yesterday afternoon easily proved after a prolonged heavy hail and rain storm. On some stretches the water was several inches deep across three-quarters of the road surface.
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Water doesn't flow uphill where I live.
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Water doesn't flow uphill where I live. 659.
What I meant was, if the channel had a camber that was less than the curve of the road, or was almost level, water would flow out to the side of the road and it wouldn't fill up.
The advantage would be buses would be less affected, and motor bikes could use the side of the road where the dip was almost nil. Cars would feel the bump, but wouldn't bottom on the exhaust.
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They should dig up all the humps,melt it back down and then fill all the dam potholes up with it, There are thousands of them in the small town i live, and at a guess 1500 humps.P.S. Can one claim damages from the council if a massive pothole damages your car ? Cheers, Graham.
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They should dig up all the humps,melt it back down and then fill all the dam potholes up with it, There are thousands of them in the small town i live, and at a guess 1500 humps.P.S. Can one claim damages from the council if a massive pothole damages your car ? Cheers, Graham.
If the pot hole was reported to them, and they fail to repair it, then yes you can. Otherwise they can claim they were not aware of it. Quite how you find out if the pot hole has been reported I know not, apart from the asking the council.
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Hi there Leif, Typical council get out clause hey!!! Cheers,Graham.
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Hi there Leif, Typical council get out clause hey!!! Cheers,Graham.
Quite. I am not keen on councils after some of my dealings with them. But to be fair to them, a lot of the problems are due to central government either telling them to do something extra without giving them extra money, or telling them to do something in a prescribed way to meet targets. Hence we have parking charges, road humps, and poor road surfaces.
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If you hate the humps and other traffic calming schemes as I do then you will be pleased to know that Basingstoke council has promised to remove some in a road near me. People signed a petition when the humps were installed to no effect but individual letters to councillors obtained a promise that if the council changed hands at the election the humps would go. The council duly changed hands and the humps should go as promised. The bloke who was responsible for the humps had no sympathy with damage to vehicles......bet there were no humps in hid road. If millions of road users wrote individual letters to mps and councillors demanding hump removal they might just get the message...petitions are useless.
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